Posted by Don M. on 01/09/06 05:58

"Technobarbarian" wrote in message news:1d6dnfmumNdYNFzenZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@giganews.com...
> "Don M." wrote in message news:jvydnQshOo0Y_FzeRVnyvA@giganews.com...
> > "dadiOH" wrote in message news:kpQvf.325$sa4.188@trnddc07...
> >> Rob Weekhout wrote:
> >>
> >> > Let us know what your opinion is about M.M !!!
> >>
> >> Since you asked...
> >>
> >> When it was SongsDB it just flat out didn't work. Not reliably. Does
> >> it now? It is better but I figure that if someone releases a flaky
> >> program they simply don't care and I'm not interested in future
> >> releases.
> >>
> >> It was also huge. Still is. "Huge" = five or more times the size of
> >> other similar and better programs.
> >>
> >> It also created a huge database - the equivalent of almost eight ID3V1
> >> tags for each and every song. Still does.
> >>
> >> It was very slow scanning for MP3s.
> >>
> >> My overall opinion is that there are many far better programs around.
> >>
> >
> > Excellent. Not to offend anybody, but I think it is plain stupid for
> > people to choose
> > huge programs just because they have space to waste.
> > I'll take fast scans over slow ones any time, regardless of my hardware
> > capabilities. My
> > 2� of course.
>
> Hopefully no one's opinion is so precious that they're going to get
> offended by someone's choice of programs; but, I am curious what program you
> would suggest? Fast and tight is fine, if the program does what I want. If
> it doesn't do much of anything it doesn't matter how small or fast it is. If
> you have a suggestion for something that's at least as useful as Media
> Monkey I'd love to hear it. Twenty five cents worth of storage space is no
> big deal. If it slows down my computer enough that I can't do six other
> things at the same time that would bother me.
>
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Usefulness is relative. I take the modular approach and avoid do-it-all programs as much
as possible.
All I need for organizing my music files is a file manager (EF Commander:
http://www.efsoftware.com/cw/e.htm ) and a database manager (Mpeg Audio Collection aka
MAC: http://mac.sourceforge.net/ - 280KB database file for about 2000 songs.) MAC helps
me keep track of offline CDRs as well. It can guess encoder and store info in the db,
which I find very useful.

Ripper: EAC or CDex
Encoder: Razor Lame
Burner: CD Extreme, CDRWin
Tagger: Tag & Rename, MP3Tag
Player: WinAmp (with minimum number of plugins)


Don

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