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Music library management software
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:50 pm
by little_jazz
Any recommendations for music library management software?
I'm afraid to admit, but I'm a PC person and on my last laptop iTunes just couldn't deal with my library. And I don't even think that I have that much music, but any search and it would lag. I now have a brand new laptop and consider to start over.
Can anyone recommend a good (and resource efficient) music manager?
Are there any users of MusicBee, MediaMonkey or Amarok out there?
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:31 pm
by SoundInMotionDJ
Media Monkey....hands down.
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:49 am
by chrisbe
Most of the PC DJs I know use
MediaMonkey or JRiver Media Center.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:46 am
by Surreal
Another vote for JRiver Media Center from me (or Media Jukebox, their free version).
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:59 pm
by kitkat
PC DJ here. I use MediaMonkey for organizing. I also use it as my "cueing" player when I'm DJing (out my primary sound card, to my headphones).
When I'm DJing, I drag tracks from MediaMonkey to WinAmp and let WinAmp play out my 2nd sound card to the room.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:12 am
by Synecdoche
JRiver for me. I tried Media Monkey, but it just didn't seem to agree with me.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:57 am
by little_jazz
Four months later and I was just about to download MediaMonkey when I found Foobar2000 and now I'm not so sure. Any recommendations?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:43 pm
by kitkat
From a quick glance, it looks like Foobar2000 is specialized at being a player? (Like Winamp...)
I really would say that MediaMonkey does a great job being a catalog. It's a relational database user interface that happens to have a play button on it.
That trait is also why I don't use MediaMonkey for my feed to the room. I like using a proper player for that, where I have more tools about how the playback happens.