| | OK, so there are about a million and a half of these, and I'm wondering what people are using? I've been attached to Musicmatch Jukebox since I first started ripping to MP3 in college, but they re-branded by Yahoo last year and have finally started sabotaging the older versions of users who refused to "upgrade".
OK, so what I'm looking for: I use mp3s, not wmas, and I prefer a program with excellent tagging/cataloging/sorting. Most of my collection comes from my ever-expanding personal collection of CDs, so CD look-up is a must. I already have over 6500 well-tagged mp3s, so it would be especially nice if I could import the existing ID3v2 tags. I have speculated that it would be nice if you could tag CDs the way you tag blog entries, i.e., without specifying which tag is "artist" and which is "genre", just letting them speak for themselves--but I don't know if such a thing exists. I was also rather fond of the file-monitoring, which would automatically track mp3s in my library if I moved them while the program was open.
One feature I would like that I didn't have is the ability to edit mp3s, trimming dialogue or splitting or merging tracks. But I have another program that can do it.
What I don't need:
I hate advertizing and pushy sales (hence my beef with Yahoo). I hate WMAs on principle if nothing else. I hate slow programs (iTunes, I'm looking at you). I hate inept automatic tagging, but if I can make changes it's still better than having little or no tagging at all (iTunes again). I hate programs that try to do and be everything and suffer core quality as a result (Anyone remember Realplayer? Damn, that was a fine video program back in the day).
For reasons stated above, I'm ruling out Windows Media Player (or whatever the hell its called now), iTunes, RealPlayer, and Yahoo. I own a program by Magix (I use their mp3 editing), but I don't know if it's any good.
I'm willing to buy good software if it will save me some of these headaches, but I don't know what to get. I'd also be interested if there are decent opensource programs out there. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
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| | Posted 7/19/2008 3:35 PM - 41 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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