Re: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Forgot about Freeamp, now called Zinf. Haven't used it since an older 
freeamp version though.
www.zinf.org

On a similar subject, what do most folks use (when stuck with XP) to rip 
cd's to mp3 for more convenient access?

Cheers,
  Dave

Mike Miller wrote:
> 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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