Best Media Manager

[Triton4]

Which software (other than the Winamp Media Library) do you use for managing and organizing your music collection?

[bgesley]

windows explorer.exe.

[Spazz333]

Media Monkey. It's the Shinizzle

[corkhead0]

Agreed. Teh monkey pwns all. It wound up replacing all of the following programs:

-Nero
-FreeRip
-An mp3 tagger
-An mp3 renamer
-Winamp

In one neat non-cluttered package that take up less RAM then a winamp3 install.

[Cylob]

In addition to the above, MediaMonkey's replaced:

-Windows Explorer.

I can tag & move files at the same time! I owe my happiness to this program, it looks after 25,000 files as if they were 2,500.

I had to congratulate the developer.

11 out of 10.

[Cylob]

This thread died a little too quickly.........

Is it conclusive then?

So MediaMonkey has it?

[ujay]

I'm with bgesley, Windows Explorer all the way. Been organising files that way for nearly 20 years and it's too late to stop now

I've just tried MediaMonkey, looks like it's best suited if you have a huge collection or you're not already familiar with your music.

About the only added feature I can see is the ability to use the much superior CDReader plugin for Enhanced CDs.

If it goes the usual way of these things I expect I'll drop it pretty soon and go back to doing it with Explorer

Your reactionary old git,

UJ

[NJK]

if you take some time to do a search - you can find a lot of media managers.
most of them are freeware.

www.zdnet.com

[D4\/!d]

This thread died a little too quickly.........

Cylob is right. This question has far more answers than we have here.

What are people's views of programs such as MusicMatch.

[Triton4]

MusicMatch has a very good library/organizer. But the reason nobody uses it is because it sucks as a media player.

Sonique, Winamp and Foobar are far superior to MusicMatch in terms of sound quality, despite the fact that their Media Libraries suck

But honestly, IMO sound quality comes first.

[D4\/!d]

Triton4, I'm glad you mentioned Sound Quality. Many folk are interested in just the visuals. To me the Sound is all important.

So you think I should give foobar a try. I shall. I will go and sort something out now. A free d/l is it?

...and how come they can get the sound better than MMatch.

[Triton4]

Definitely.

It is the best player ever in terms of sound quality (although it does not have a media library or any of those fancy visualizations that WA has). It is free of cost, like Winamp

You can download it from their website: Foobar2000

Believe me, you will enjoy listening with it

[Triton4]

Another interesting fact is that foobar's developer is Peter Palowski - an ex-Winamp developer who quit WA for some unknown reason, but has gone on to make the best player ever.

If you'd like to know more details about foobar, you can discuss about it at my forums (well not really ) or you can check out the HydrogenAudio Forums

[D4\/!d]

Yes, it is a bit bland to look at, but hey I listen with my ears not my eyes.

At the moment, Alice Cooper is doing a fine job with Schools Out. Oh it's just finished.

Argent - Hold your head up is next.

Yes you are right. Sounds Good.

Many thanks for your suggestion, Triton4.

(umm, any other tips. I'm new here)

[bgesley]

I used to use Musicmatch but I haven't noticed any difference in sound quality using default plugins. Now that I use DSP enhanced the sound is far superior on WInamp. But Musicmatch had one thing that I always found useful. Burning with Volume Leveling.

[D4\/!d]

Hello bgesley, thanks for your comments. In fact, I'm quite a fan of MM8.1, and for me the Vol Levelling is so useful, coz I use MM just for playing and managing my collection of MP3s. The other features (radio and stuff) do not interest me.

Now that I use DSP enhanced the sound is far superior on WInamp.

I am a bit confused by all this talk of plug-ins. DSP, what's that. Isn't it a visual thing, not sound improvement.

However, if it works for you and gives you better Sound Quality, then I'm prepared to give it a try. How do I get it. Sorry, I'm new and don't know my way around here yet.

[Rellik]

DSP actually stand for Digital Signal Proscessing, it sits inbetween the sound input and the sound output basicly doing anything to the source audio like live EQ to compressor or even adding an echo

[D4\/!d]

Thanks Rellik.

I've now got the DSP thingy, and switched it on. Now to sit back (I wish!) listen and enjoy.

Many thanks for your suggestions

[DMSS]

Definetively you haven't tried MEXP, this is the best Media Library..
It suport any tag, organize you files, you can create trees to see your files as you whish and change the view just clicking.. Any way have a look and you will know what I'm talking about..

Have Fun

http://www.mexp.dk/

[Triton4]

MEXP is damn good.

But is it freeware now?

[ScorLibran]

I'm with bgesley. It's explorer.exe for media file management.

And I use notepad.exe for playlist management.



Seriously, for me nothing else does the job as well. Either a program doesn't "speak FLAC" (or some other format I need it to), or it doesn't use the correct tag version, or it doesn't sort correctly, etc.

The only non-OS program I'm forced to use is PhatNoise Music Manager, to get my music onto the hard drive in my car.

I guess you could say my "media manager" of choice is a collection of programs.

[DMSS]

Well, it is not freeware, but it cost just $14. and it realy worth it...

You can try it for 30 days free fully functional...

After that, you will not be able to leave without it..

[sidd]

mexp is ok, but it has a few annoying things when you try to use it all the time. I just use explorer, Winamp medialibrary for basic things, and then mexp for big scale renaming and so on.

[Cylob]

Have you not tried MediaMonkey sidd?

With your awsome collection?

[DMSS]

I have tried it now, and isn't as good as MEXP

To slow (when you have many songs >30,000)

[Triton4]

Media Monkey doesn't work in Win98 (Illegal Operation Error)

[dub97gt]

I'm currently using Media Monkey, it really is a badass program but I'm starting to realize now that I've got like 20,000 songs or so that it is way too slow to use as my media player. Other than that I really like the program but now I'm looking for something different that can more efficiently handle larger collections.

[! 4U !]

Nero

[psycho_maniac]

Originally posted by bgesley
windows explorer.exe.

+1 for windows explorer.exe

[ryan]

foobar2000 has a media library and file tagging\moving\renaming functionality. Although I'm not sure if it did in 2004 (when posted above).