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Thrillho:
So, I am a pain in the ass.

I have in the region of 16,000 (legally owned) mp3s on my computer and I listen to them a lot, and I want to be able to listen to them in one place.

I have been using Winamp for well over a decade but that is no longer supported and as such is quite clunky and slow and no longer really fit for purpose.

Anyone have any suggestions what I could use?

I don't use iTunes, because I hate it. Windows Media Player sucks all the dicks. I don't want anything that needs to constantly be online and I doubt anything like that has the kind of storage space I would need regardless.

Does anyone use a programme that ISN'T one of these things?

hedgie:
I use Clementine, which is cross-platform and has no problem managing all 35k songs on there in various formats.  It can also play streams like Spotify.

KingOfIreland:
Foobar2000. I will accept no substitute.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Thrillho on 15 Jul 2016, 12:37 ---Does anyone use a programme that ISN'T one of these things?
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Nothing - that's to say, Windows Explorer.  I have my music organised in folders the way I want (not always the way the metadata says), and then I can play an individual file by double-clicking on it in Explorer (usually associated with VLC); or I can open a directory in VLC and the whole directory plays.  My music tree of ~220GB is also duplicated in my iRiver H340 player (yes, I've changed the disk from a 40GB to a 240GB drive), and I use Rockbox in the same way (the native firmware can't handle either the disk size or the number of files).  This of course also acts as a backup!

My son would point you at Roon Labs (a development of Meridian's Sooloos) for which he was a beta tester - it's very clever and comprehensive, but costs, and I simply don't want anything it offers.

SubaruStephen:
I only use iTunes to buy music and load the songs on my iPod.
The iPod is my main source of daily music. (Auxiliary jack in the car and a ihome docking station knockoff at work)



Not going to mention the record collection.

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