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Posted by Dejan Stone on 06/26/06 22:56
Clueless in Seattle wrote:
> I'd be grateful for some suggestions for an alternate to Windows Media
> Player 9.
>
> I've got a bunch of MP3s I downloaded back in the heyday of Napster.
>
> Back then I used a player called WinAmp on a computer running Windows
> 95. But in the years since then my health failed, I was unable to
> continue working and ended up homeless for over a year, so my computer,
> along with everything else, ended up either in storage or the thrift
> store.
>
> Now I've got a place to live again and a friend gave me his old
> computer when he got a new one. I'm running Windows 2000 on it.
>
> I just downloaded and installed Windows Media Player 9 (apparently
> that's the highest version that works on Win 2K) and have been
> monkeying around with it. I like how easy it is to copy songs from my
> CD collection the computer.
>
> But when I imported my MP3s from my old computer, WMP got the artist
> info all messed up. It labeled over 200 different songs with the same
> artist's name (none of the songs were by that artist!).
>
> And when I tried to make up a "playlist" in WMP, there didn't seem to
> be any way to look for the songs by their titles, only by artist,
> album or genre. Since the artist info is so messed up, that isn't
> going to work very well for me. And for me, I think of songs by their
> titles, not by the artist's name or the name of the album the song came
> from. Sometimes I can remember the name of the artist, just the name
> of the song.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there's a free player out there these days, that
> will work under Win 2K, and which would let me organize my songs by
> song title, rather than artist or album title.
>
> Will in Seattle
> a.k.a. "Clueless"
>
Winamp still works with Win 2000. http://www.winamp.com/
Enjoy :)
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