Media Player Discussion Thread

[Schizotypic]

Originally Posted by toretorden

By filters, I mean stuff like "1970s" - only music from that decade .. or "norwegian", just music from Norway. 1980s debuts for example. You have to be a little smart with your organizing and/or tagging for searching to work, but anyone who's a little bit serious about his or her collection should be.

If you chip away at my argument, the core of it is that if you imagine you had 200 000+ music files on your computer, then I don't think MediaMonkey would be a good program. From my experiences, I believe Winamp would then be better.

edit :

The functionality you mention in your post is of course also found in Winamp.

Wow, I have 17,000+ tracks. So you have like... ten times the music. Man that is a lot of music, you must have like a fucking terabyte of music! Anyway, yeah, sounds like Winamp is the best then. =0 I'm shocked!

[gotjuice]

You can easily sort by decade in MediaMonkey, as well as create filter views that I believe are similar to what you're talking about. The search function is right at the top of the program, I'm not sure how it could get any easier.

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by Schizotypic

Wow, I have 17,000+ tracks. So you have like... ten times the music. Man that is a lot of music, you must have like a fucking terabyte of music! Anyway, yeah, sounds like Winamp is the best then. =0 I'm shocked!

Haha, no I don't have that much music on my computer. It was just an example

Originally Posted by gotjuice

You can easily sort by decade in MediaMonkey, as well as create filter views that I believe are similar to what you're talking about. The search function is right at the top of the program, I'm not sure how it could get any easier.

Well, on a 16:10 aspect widescreen ratio, that puts the search bar way up in some right corner when the program window is maximized. Winamp places it right in the middle where you're working. It's a tiny difference, but when you search all the time, it matters

[BTown]

What are the benefits of media monkey?

[gotjuice]

Originally Posted by toretorden

Well, on a 16:10 aspect widescreen ratio, that puts the search bar way up in some right corner when the program window is maximized. Winamp places it right in the middle where you're working. It's a tiny difference, but when you search all the time, it matters

Touche then

B-Town, I find that MM is the easiest program to tag your music with, hands down. I'm incredibly OCD when it comes to tagging music, so this saves me a lot of time. That would probably be my main selling point, along with the Last.FM support, but the lack of that was more of a Zune issue than a MM one. I'd recommend you download it and just play around with it for awhile, some people obviously will swear by it and others don't see the fuss. To each his own

[Zer0]

Ok Winamp just isn't doing it for me. I'm less than impressed with the sound output, when i rip a cd it's hard to get the files to go into the right folder, it won't sync properly with my ipod and last fm won't scrobble my ipod because of this. Gonna stick with itunes for the moment, it's simple and works best with an ipod (waits for wtf comments), unless anyone else has got any other suggestions hmmmm??

[86 Position]

MM all the way.

[gotjuice]

Originally Posted by Zero1986

Ok Winamp just isn't doing it for me. I'm less than impressed with the sound output, when i rip a cd it's hard to get the files to go into the right folder, it won't sync properly with my ipod and last fm won't scrobble my ipod because of this. Gonna stick with itunes for the moment, it's simple and works best with an ipod (waits for wtf comments), unless anyone else has got any other suggestions hmmmm??

What 86 said.

[86 Position]

I can't speak too technically on this issue....but one thing I really enjoyed about MM coming from iTunes was the very pinpointed searching and tagging.

I also liked being able to browse my hard drive within the program . I don't remember this being possible in iTunes...and I was using iTunes on a PC. maybe it was though lol. but I can move files to different folders very fast and add stuff to the library quickly. also I think on a Mac perhaps iTunes is THE program to have...but PC it's nonsense.

I know nobody with PC who uses iTunes, and if they do they are complaining



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[Zer0]

Originally Posted by gotjuice

What 86 said.

Tried it but it wouldn't work properly on my computer. When i open it for the first time it tells me auto library has stopped working and the program needs to close down. Ho hum