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« Reply #15 on: 10:13:25, 18-06-2007 » |
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Version 3 looks promising (as it will let us browse by composer and whatnot); will definitely consider taking it up when it comes out of beta.
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« Reply #16 on: 16:37:36, 26-06-2007 » |
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. . . in my searches i came across dbpoweramp, which looks a touch red hot as well. does any one have any experience? Yes we use it all the time - highly recommended. We save music nowadays in .ape (compressed but lossless) format, and then when we want to listen to it we fire up dbpoweramp to convert it to .wav. Then we burn that to a rewritable CD and play it on a high-class player in one of our living rooms. dbpoweramp will convert a whole batch of files (or tracks) at once, and the whole process is very fast on a fast computer. Very reliable too - it has never failed. |
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« Reply #17 on: 16:44:56, 26-06-2007 » |
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Both of these look really good, but does anyone have any alternatives to iTunes for us Mac users? The most irritating outcome of iPod's utter dominance is that we seem to be losing ground this front.
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« Reply #18 on: 16:54:36, 26-06-2007 » |
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Just as a player, Tim, or are you after audio editing capability as well?
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« Reply #19 on: 17:01:23, 26-06-2007 » |
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I'm not so bothered about editing - Audacity does all I need in that respect. Ideally I'm after something to organise, tag and play my music files that can handle ogg, wav (and flac if possible), and does so with better sound quality than iTunes, and a more powerful/flexible interface for organising things (what with iTunes's genre/song title/artist/album obsession proving quadrupally useless for my music collection)*. At the moment I feel locked into iTunes, and being tied to a single software option always makes me nervous that I'm missing out on something. *I'd also like the moon on a stick, if you have one spare  |
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« Reply #20 on: 17:07:03, 26-06-2007 » |
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Spare sticks but no moon, I'm afraid.
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« Reply #21 on: 18:02:10, 19-01-2008 » |
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Ah! The new version of MediaMonkey is out; I'm just going to give it a spin now, see what it looks like  AAAH! It's *much* better! |
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« Reply #22 on: 20:37:44, 20-01-2008 » |
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It is, having just got it, *much* improved, and very intuitive in its layout, but how annoying that it comes with crossfade on as standard.
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« Reply #23 on: 21:25:03, 20-01-2008 » |
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It is, having just got it, *much* improved, and very intuitive in its layout, but how annoying that it comes with crossfade on as standard.
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But this can be turned off without much trouble? It would be perfect for me, if I could hide the tree view occasionally (and if it worked on macs). Are there any particular improvements that do it for you? |
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Thought I'd bump this as I've been using MediaMonkey quite a bit today having spent a large part of the day organising my recordings so that I'm confident I've got 2 copies of everything (on different hard drives) and all is where I think it should be. MM seems pretty good, although I haven't used it a lot. I've never used iTunes so I can't compare - however, I've got Rhythmbox on the laptop which is supposedly inspired by iTunes. The main problem is the ubiquitous artist/album classification: no doubt everyone else has the same problem. Is "Radio 4" the artist or the album?
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« Reply #25 on: 01:47:13, 31-05-2008 » |
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The main problem is the ubiquitous artist/album classification: no doubt everyone else has the same problem.
iPod are good about that, iTunes is okay, but not perfect. Mediamonkey has no trouble with it though. (except where automatic labelling is concerned, I guess) |
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I've got a problem with MediaMonkey - it doesn't play CDs properly. Everything else seems to play OK but CDs sound quite "wobbly". CDs play OK on my PC using everything else eg RealPlayer, Windows Media Player. Anyone else get this or know what the solution is?
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