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Alternative to iTunes
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In my opinion, XMPlay and Foobar are by far the best Windows audioplayers. I'm still looking for a Mac alternative. And no way iTunes is a realistic option.
Linux has tons of media players that are great, banshee, exaile, amarok, bmpx, etc...
I'm looking for anything that is close to these players, but I can not find any.
itunes = no global shortcuts, no folder syncing, takes hours to add folders to playlist (looking for cover art, gapless, etc.. all that stuff which I can not disable)
I'm looking for anything that is close to these players, but I can not find any.
itunes = no global shortcuts, no folder syncing, takes hours to add folders to playlist (looking for cover art, gapless, etc.. all that stuff which I can not disable)
Stick with it.
Ok I admit I was horrified about moving to itunes. My first ever experience back in the 90's was when I loaded i tunes for the first time. With three or four years of music organising on the filestem, the whole thing turned into a nightmare when itunes decided to 'sort' my music for me... Oh really, 1 song per folder in a folder in a folder off a compilation album...? Let me tell you that was NOT funny. but that was a long time ago.
Since then I've been on PC's and only just lately I got a G5, which is great except I was kinda 'forced' to go back to scary town with itunes.
I know that you can ask itunes not to sort your music and all it's features, it's great.....
but
I was still terrified and so facing my fears I 'dumped' the entire 21,000 songs into itunes and just let the chips fall where they may.
I seemed to have 'lost' about 8000 songs and started to feel like 'here we go again, am i supposed to go through everything now song by song to find what it missed, or do I just 'dump' the whole lot in again and let it make duplicates of everything? Do I just say 'whatever' and delete the original files because for some stupid reason itunes likes to make copies of songs when that just seems redundant and ridiculous...
So i started to go through folders and files and crosschecking random songs and i actually found that they were all there, most were just missing ID3 tags.
It will take me FOREVER to go through all these tracks but now I'm pretty comfortable with itunes. At least i know that I haven't lost any of my precious music.
Stick with it i say.... take losses if you get them and move on. Nothing really compares to itunes. If you want to load individual songs to a player, i suggest Cog. It's awesome.
Hope this helps anyone frustrated with itunes...
Ok I admit I was horrified about moving to itunes. My first ever experience back in the 90's was when I loaded i tunes for the first time. With three or four years of music organising on the filestem, the whole thing turned into a nightmare when itunes decided to 'sort' my music for me... Oh really, 1 song per folder in a folder in a folder off a compilation album...? Let me tell you that was NOT funny. but that was a long time ago.
Since then I've been on PC's and only just lately I got a G5, which is great except I was kinda 'forced' to go back to scary town with itunes.
I know that you can ask itunes not to sort your music and all it's features, it's great.....
but
I was still terrified and so facing my fears I 'dumped' the entire 21,000 songs into itunes and just let the chips fall where they may.
I seemed to have 'lost' about 8000 songs and started to feel like 'here we go again, am i supposed to go through everything now song by song to find what it missed, or do I just 'dump' the whole lot in again and let it make duplicates of everything? Do I just say 'whatever' and delete the original files because for some stupid reason itunes likes to make copies of songs when that just seems redundant and ridiculous...
So i started to go through folders and files and crosschecking random songs and i actually found that they were all there, most were just missing ID3 tags.
It will take me FOREVER to go through all these tracks but now I'm pretty comfortable with itunes. At least i know that I haven't lost any of my precious music.
Stick with it i say.... take losses if you get them and move on. Nothing really compares to itunes. If you want to load individual songs to a player, i suggest Cog. It's awesome.
Hope this helps anyone frustrated with itunes...
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