Re: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I use Amarok in Linux and it does okay. I tried a couple other similar 
programs and they were pretty unstable. Amarok isn't quite as slick as 
iTunes and does have a bit of lock up if you try to feed 1000's of MP3s 
into it at once but overall it crashes less and has fewer annoying 
quirks than iTunes does. It's still on my bitch list that programmers 
start adding features and worrying about how a program looks before they 
iron out basic issues like, for this type of program, indexing and 
playing music files.

Of course I'm grumpy about programmers ignoring basic stability before 
going hog wild as Thunderbird has managed to lose several years of mail 
suddenly this past week as it's storage system obviously has a bug in 
recent versions. Old versions would say that a foldr was full and no 
more messages could be moved there - newer versions are just wiping out 
the folder and starting over. Doh! A 4GB folder limit is ridiculous 
anyway as is flat-file storage of messages. But then the INBOX farted 
too and lost some very important messages I had stored which had 
technical information that was really hard to obtain. Damn them. Of 
course all this is stuff downloaded and cleared from GMail because my 
account was full and it was annoying me.. not yet backed up. :P
> I'm using iTunes on my Windows PC because it is there and other people 
> seem to use it.  iTunes displays all of the MP3 files on my system in 
> one gigantic list, which is a very cool idea, but it somehow manages 
> not to find every file and I find it hard to sort things the way I 
> want them sorted.  Also, I much prefer to use FOSS software whenever 
> possible, not for ideological reasons but because my experiences have 
> been much better with such software.
>
> So is there a good FOSS replacement for iTunes?  I think Windows Media 
> Player can do some of the same things as iTunes, but I also want to 
> avoid Microsoft products (too many bad experiences!).


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