RE: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

["Davis, Jared Scott" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Songbird has a lot of potential, but it's not there yet.  I've been using Winamp for nearly 8 years now...the Media Library makes it quite good.  Cataloging your files is easy and you can customize views (e.g., create an "ABC" view to see artists that begin with ABC, or "2006" to view albums from 2006, etc.), but it also depends on how well your files are tagged (I'm more fastidious than the average person in that respect).  The downside is that it's not open source and a bit bloated.  I'd love to switch a F/OSS winamp-style program.


Jared Davis
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Woodsmall, Ryan (IATS)
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 10:24 AM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: RE: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com/) looks promising.  It's built on the Mozilla platform.  One of my non-technical friends downloaded it and likes it, but it's still a bit buggy.  Maybe worth checking out.

  ryan woodsmall
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED on behalf of Mike Miller
Sent: Mon 11/20/2006 12:36 AM
To: MLUG membership
Subject: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?
 
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!).

Mike

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