RE: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think realplayer (at least the older versions did) does it, but you
need to be sure to disable all DRM stuff in it and make sure it is mp3
format it is saving to.  I used to have a utility that did a good job,
but has since been lost in the tides of time with succesive rebuilds (I
think it even had a command line version with it).

Diana 

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave McBride
>Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:51 PM
>To: MLUG Members
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] iTunes replacement?
>
>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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