![]() ![]() I quite liked Songbird's library interface, though the Linux version I was using was a little wobbly, maybe it's fixed now or the Windows version is better. I think the last time I touched iTunes was several years ago, and my recollection is that it was resource intensive and attempted to reorganize my collection following some Apple voodoo preference defaults I lacked the patience to correct. It looks like it supports WinAmp plug-in standards for DSP and visualizations, but the MM site only confirms a handful of DSPs and a dozen vis plug-ins. Bare MM does do most of things I found useful with WinAmp: continuous play, crossfade play, removing silent mp3 frames. Syncing for iPhone/iPod, WMDM (iRiver, Creative Labs, Sony, Sandisk), and USB MSD (Cowan) is standard, with some scripting available. I have no idea how well it works with iPods, as I've always used iriver or Cowan mp3 portables. (I find a deep folder hierarchy is faster than any other option for quickly finding the. Between MediaMonkey and the very useful Bulk Rename Utility (win only), it wasn't too much of a chore to whip a large collection from multiple sources (my rips, emusic, some slsk & torrent) music into coherence within either the software jukebox or in folder view. Those organizational facilities come in very handy if you opted for one of the iPod competitors that don't support full cataloging by id3 tags: one ends up organizing the music library in a fairly deep nested folder hierarchy to speed access. MediaMonkey is not terribly resource intensive, and I found it intuitive for uniformly organizing files from tags, tags from filenames, with scripts for correcting case & track numbering. I've used Media Monkey exclusively for 2 years. ![]() if u listen to new music all day ur not fucking with well tagged business, and nor would i be able to work with searching for stray nobody artists i never heard of and might never remember again alba likes to bust the pretence of being an organic feely starchild all about the music maaan but really itunes is far more set up for bitter shopkeeper learned id3 scholarship than winamp, which is a bit clunkier i suppose but still has a way more colloqial relation to the way ppl listen to music cos it bloody well reminds u ur listening to fucking mp3s on a fucking computer, whats that got to do with real life! like ooh, u can add poxy *starzz* to remember if u like something, how human! (this sort of totally fake 'feature' is 100000x gayer than any wonky ashley simpson skin on a winamp btw) + random grime > radio rips, sets, shop clips, rngīig deal. + dancehall, riddim subsets, soca, oldskool Ha its not like i have something virtuoso crazy going or anything, like for the strays its This means that file transfer programs will not register events upon download completetion. The problem with Folder actions is that the actions only register from Finder actions IIRC. Now, sometimes I am actually doing something intensive on my computer and I wouldn't want iTunes import to take up any memory or cpu (unlike you sad people who spend your lives in Word and complaining that iTunes is too hard) so I wouldn't want this kind of thing. If you want the batch task sort of behavior, there's all kinds of applications to let you do that. Monitoring is either instantaneous or happens over a very short cycle time via something like Linux's FAM. If this were to be integrated into iTunes, they could make it do it right :)įolder monitoring doesn't have to be instantaneous! DO YOU NOT GET THE IDEA OF SCHEDULED TASKS The problem with itunes and "watch folders" is that when you "open" a file in itunes it imports AND plays at once. As I say, I never really look at the folder structure when it comes to my mp3s. I don't know if this is caused by checking that 'part of a compilation' check box. It doesn't create a separate folder for each song at all. I'm not sure why you are having that problem with compilations - the V/A compilations I have all seem to go in a folder called 'Compilations' and then in subfolders named after the title of the compilation. If you retag the tracks correctly then it will put them in right artist folder. I hardly ever even look at the file directories for mp3s. What I still don't understand about all this is why it matters to you what folders the mp3s are in. That gets really tiring after you get more than a few gigs of mp3s downloaded or ripped. Have a compilation folder with a bunch of different' artist's tracks? It'll create a folder for each individual song. ![]() The itunes version of this (aside from the slightly clunkier hands-on interface after you load it) is to take your entire mp3 folder and, based on what might be incorrect tags, just put them into the folders it deems best in an automatic process that you have no control over. ![]()
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