This. Especially since they got smart and even added last.fm support in the app. If I'm using something to control my library it's iTunes though.
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This. Especially since they got smart and even added last.fm support in the app. If I'm using something to control my library it's iTunes though.
Poetic.Injustice
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Winamp, It really whips the llama's ass.
Adam Blade
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1by1 is the only player anyone would need.
thoseAREmySHOES
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I've been using iTunes for ages, I just really like the way it grabs album art for my songs. But I do have a question... I know that there are several freeware tools for filling in missing pieces of song tags, but do any of them actually work well? I feel like the songs that I have that are missing/have incorrect tags won't be caught by them because of typos or something.
foobar2000 is good if you enjoy messing about getting it look just how you like. I used to use it all the time but after losing all my settings once I decided to try something else.
Now I use MusicBee. Superb program that looks great as is, has lots of useful features and a small footprint.
Other notable mentions are Spotify (which is fine as a music player but not so good as a music manager) and classic Winamp just coz.
Stay away from iTunes (on Windows), unless you have to use it. The new one especially has such a bad interface, and I have no idea why it's always so sluggish.
Now I use MusicBee. Superb program that looks great as is, has lots of useful features and a small footprint.
Other notable mentions are Spotify (which is fine as a music player but not so good as a music manager) and classic Winamp just coz.
Stay away from iTunes (on Windows), unless you have to use it. The new one especially has such a bad interface, and I have no idea why it's always so sluggish.
MrChocolate
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AIMP.
It's really really good.
It's really really good.
The only thing that's stopping from completely getting me to switch to Play Music fulltime is the lack of a desktop player/the web player having desktop playback controls. (well that and the fact that Google doesn't consider Canada a real country)
There are unofficial desktop players but i don't really trust em.
There are unofficial desktop players but i don't really trust em.
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Main reason I use foobar. I don't have to fuck with tags or anything. Just name the folder and that's how it shows up in my player.
That's great if everything you want to listen to is actually available on a streaming service.
I use foobar2000, as much for its robust custom metadata support as anything else.
I'll keep an actual library thank you very much
lol, looks like a screenshot from my music library. Never heard of Sam Ock though, but I do know Kero One.
Soodanim
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I don't do it any more, but I used to enjoy learning and coding foobar layouts. If you spend a lot of time in the program then why not set it up to be perfect for you?
thoseAREmySHOES
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Whoops, I actually use that all the time to manually adjust tags, I meant anything for itunes that automatically scans my library and does it? I probably have thousands of songs that have tags messed up.
cloud_sleep
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Foobar with touch remote plugin so I can control my music library via my IOS devices using the apple remote app. It's awesome.
thesuperfunk
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Winamp 2.9
AstroNut325
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I prefer iTunes. I don't mind it being slower than the others. The UI is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. It has some quirks but the integration between the iDevices negates all the negatives.
lastflowers
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do it by folder.
Shalashaska161
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I use iTunes but it's because of iTunes Match and having all my music from my laptop easily accessible in the cloud. If it wasn't for that I'd go back to using Foobar probably.
BoosterDuck
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Speaking of music players, has anyone found an acceptable podcatcher that isn't iTunes or Zune?
Why doesn't Spotify have one?
Why doesn't Spotify have one?
joeygreco1985
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2.91 was my go to player for YEARS. Winamp 3 and 4 were pretty bloated in comparison
This is exactly why google music has become my go to service.... I keep everything there now because you can augment your own collection with what is available on the all access pass and its one place I can go to on any computer and access my entire collection.
Had been using zune/xbox music but having to manage a local collection became a chore especially when I have multiple computers trying to keep everything in sync and then keeping track of what was available through the zunepass. They really should have enabled a cloud music collection in skydrive years ago.
Foobar2k exemplifies everything software should aspire to. It's fast, feature-rich, stable, accurate and extensible.
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_podcatcher
Obviously:
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_podcatcher
Starwolf_UK
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I never had much joy with he auto-tagging here but for manual jobs (adding artist, genre etc) I love it.
As for auto-tagging. I have had some joy with the graceonte support in newer versions of winamp (something like right click > send to > auto-tag).
Google is not this. Downloads via the browser (for me) are 22khz, 160kbs (for 44khz 320kbs you have to use the cummy manager app that only downloads newly purchased songs or the entire library, no options inbetween) so it would be absurd if streaming was better.
Spotify likewise is only that if you subscribe to the premium version.
Sithlord77
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The problem I have is I don't like iTunes either because its such a resource hog with my 250gb of music. Disk access lasts for ages each time windows loads up on this very fast PC.
However, I'm forced to use it because of my other Apple devices and iTunes Match. It synchs to them etc too.
Having said that though iTunes Match only let's me upload so much so its limited in that regard. I basically wanted iTunes Match to back up all my music to the cloud (or have some version of the song out there thats identical to mine so I can use iTunes Match to stream music to the iPhone instead of storing it locally on the phone) but it doesn't anymore as it's reached it's limit from my collection now. I think it was 200gb limit.
I wish I could use an alternative but Apple has backed me into a corner with iTunes.
However, I'm forced to use it because of my other Apple devices and iTunes Match. It synchs to them etc too.
Having said that though iTunes Match only let's me upload so much so its limited in that regard. I basically wanted iTunes Match to back up all my music to the cloud (or have some version of the song out there thats identical to mine so I can use iTunes Match to stream music to the iPhone instead of storing it locally on the phone) but it doesn't anymore as it's reached it's limit from my collection now. I think it was 200gb limit.
I wish I could use an alternative but Apple has backed me into a corner with iTunes.
Yeah, that's not the case for me. I just downloaded a song from the browser that i had purchased a while back and it was 320kbps. I also downloaded another song that I had uploaded as a FLAC and it also came back down as 320kbps. The only song that was less than 320kbps was a 256kbps AAC that I had uploaded.
Enosh
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Bro you can configure it to look just like it always has.
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