What do you use for MP3's

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I use media-monkey... it keeps all my files organized, and it very easy to use... also easy on the system recources. So which do you use and why?
 
iTunes. Own an iPod. Love it. iTunes is awesome as well. I sometimes buy music from their service too.
 
I've been using MusicMatch for a few years since I could organize everything pretty well, but I've grown lazy and annoyed with the latest versions, so I'm switching to Winamp soon for something simpler.
 
Winamp and my trusty Sony Hi-Fi skin for the past 2 years, almost? But Winamp in general for nearly 5.
 
Winamp. There has yet to be another program that gives you the player funtions and a sizeable/customizable playlist window in a relatively small space.
 
Ryu said:
iTunes. Own an iPod. Love it. iTunes is awesome as well. I sometimes buy music from their service too.
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I too use iTunes for multiple reasons.

1) It's XML based database structure allows for live searching. This alone is reason enough to use iTunes.
2) I like having the abality to rate my songs. I'm currently using a Smart Playlist in combination with Party Shuffle to rate every single one of them (about 3200).
3) I use a Powerbook and have an iPod.
4) I occasionally buy songs from the iTunes Music Store.
 
For tagging and organizing I use The Godfather. I've found nothing else as useful or quick that's free. Great program.

For playing, I use Foobar2000 or XMPlay. Foobar is quite useful in many ways, but lately I've been using XMPlay because it has even better sound output (which is rather surprising). I'm not very happy with the sound of WinAMP personally.

Foobar isn't very useful unless you add tons of stuff to it. Particularly the ColumnsUI plugin. The only problem is that it crashes too frequently with the amount of songs I have. XMPlay never has this problem.
 
Foobar.

Best sound quality, very customizable, very small resource footprint. Use of the Advanced Limiter in the DSP plugins helps making heavily compresed albums not sound as harsh with all their clipping.
 
i've been noticing that winamp has been fucking up A LOT lately (tons of skipping and pausing) when i browse with Firefox. ANy other players work better with Firefox? Or is there an extension that can help?
 
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I just downloaded it... its REALLY simple... why do you like it so much?
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What the others said. It's just really good, sound quality wise, the small size and etc etc
 
iTunes.

I like it so much that I've begun a holy crusade to convert all winamp using infidels on my campus to use it.
 
Hooray for 1 gig of ram. If you can't appreciate it for the features already mentioned in this thread, then you're bound to never appreciate it at all. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you're already decided about it when you enter the thread plainly stating a negative. :p
 
Its really easy for me to organize and listen to stuff by genre, artist, album, or add date with iTunes, and it's also easy to categorize and find everything I wanna hear, even if I don't remember the exact name of the song/artist I'm looking for (I love that damn search window!). It burns cds very quickly and efficiently as well.

Winamp always ran glitchy on my pc, and didn't seem to have nearly as many (or as intuitive to use) features as iTunes, too.

I don't notice the 40mb it eats up slowing my rig down at all, or iTunes causing windows to shut down slower. Maybe your pcs just suck.
 
Ryu said:
Hooray for 1 gig of ram. If you can't appreciate it for the features already mentioned in this thread, then you're bound to never appreciate it at all. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you're already decided about it when you enter the thread plainly stating a negative. :p
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Me? Hehe. I'll probably try it some more when I get my iPod.

Please send it soon Apple!
 
Been using WinAmp for years and years now...in fact I still have my "woodamp" skin from like the mid 90's or something.

I have iTunes as well on my system but I just use it to shop for music, as I think it doesn't sound as good.

I only have like 1100 MP3's so not overly concerned with organization. They are all tagged alike, and are organized by artist/song title...no need for any other methods.

I use the software that came with my player to transfer stuff (Creative MediaSource). It has all those tagging and rating functions people seem to like but I don't need that crap.
 
iTunes at uni [college] (filled with Macs) and at home, on my PC and my iBook. There's always about 10 or so people sharing music across the network, so that's one of the many things I love about iTunes. That and it makes iPod'ing so damn easy.

I know it's kinda sad, but I'm obsessed with opening the Preferences in iTunes at uni and seeing how many people are listening to my shared music. It's like a race to see how quick the maximum listeners will zero in on my amazing taste (the maximum is five), and it makes me feel good about the music I have :D
 
where can i get an old school version of winamp? you know, the versions that did suck up all my resources.
 
Another iTunes convert here. I used to use Foobar and then WinAmp 5 but iTunes whips the ass of the dude that is busy whipping the ass of the llama.
 
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