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Posted by Zeus on 12/10/06 18:33
Mediamonkey - far superior to iTunes.
"jan kowalski" <admin2@xxx.wokiss.pl> wrote in message
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> What is the closest WinXP freeware alternative to iTunes that:
> - Doesn't delete songs periodically (like iTunes seems to do)
> - Doesn't phone home (I have no need for Internet songs)
> - Allows songs to go directly into an existing iPod playlist
>
> I've learned to hate iTunes with a passion. Not only does it install
> crapware (like QuickTime) on my system in forced locations (iTunes gives
> you no option to put Quicktime where you want to put it) - and not only
> does it constantly phone home (thankfully all iTunes requests are blocked
> by my firewall) - but worse than that - recently I lost all the songs out
> of my iPod nano because of iTunes. I hate iTunes!
>
> It seems to me iTunes is highly unreliable in my use model.
>
> Long ago (probably a few months) I had loaded about fifty songs into the
> iPod nano and then played those fifty over and over again happily.
> Recently, I wanted to add a few songs. I "synchronized" with iTunes and
> all
> my songs were deleted!
>
> Why did iTunes delete all my songs from my iPod nano?
>
> In looking back as to why all my songs were deleted from the iPod, I can
> only surmise that the original library was long moved and modified. Also,
> the operating system was rebuilt in the meantime so I had to reinstall
> iTunes 7. But none of that should have made iTunes destroy all my songs.
> This is why I hate iTunes.
>
> In looking for an alternative, I found the SharePod freeware iTunes
> alternative replacement which seems to at least preserve my songs over
> time. But, SharePod doesn't seem to allow copying of songs into a
> playlist.
> You can copy the songs into the main song list and then move to a
> playlist,
> but, I can't seem to copy directly into the playlist (at least iTunes
> allowed that simple function). So, SharePod fails on that simple use
> model.
>
> What is the closest freeware alternative to iTunes that:
> - Doesn't delete songs periodically (like iTunes seems to do)
> - Doesn't phone home (I have no need for Internet songs)
> - Allows songs to go directly into an existing iPod playlist
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