RE: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Davis, Jared Scott wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Funny thing: I've also been using WinAmp for many years, probably about 
> 8 years also, and I didn't know they could catalogue all the files on my 
> system.  I've usually used it to play just a few files here and there. 
> I'll have to try the Media Library in WinAmp.  I am also trying Songbird 
> and Media Player Classic.


I just indexed all of the files in "My Music" (Microsoftism) using WinAmp 
Media Library.  It was very fast and it found literally almost exactly 
twice as many files as did iTunes.  It's hard to understand how iTunes 
screws up this badly.  So now I have 23,650 MP3s indexed (116 GB) and 
Media Library can play any one of them when I ask for it, but it takes 
about 5 seconds from the time I click until the next song starts playing! 
I guess that's a bigger index than most people would have, but they are 
doing something very inefficiently to cause it to take that long.

Mike

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