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Posted by <normanstrong on 01/09/06 17:19
"Don M." <newsreader@nospam4fineartsnospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Technobarbarian" wrote in message
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>> "Don M." wrote in message news:jvydnQshOo0Y_FzeRVnyvA@giganews.com...
>> > "dadiOH" wrote in message news:kpQvf.325$sa4.188@trnddc07...
>> >> Rob Weekhout wrote:
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>> >> > 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.
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>> 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)
Where does one download CD Extreme. All I've been able to find is updates
for it, not the program itself?
Thanks,
Norm Strong
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