I humbly submit Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) for your consideration. I have over 17,000 .mp3's and it works flawlessly, allowing rapid searching, and also has a ready-loaded sidebar that allows for quick sorting based on artist, genre, year, album, title, etc...
It's also free and easy to uninstall if you don't like it. Anyway, just thought I'd share.
I almost mistook you for spam. ;)
Looks interesting, though I'm a Winamp user.
WinAmp here, too.
I've been a dedicated Winamp user for years. The reason I switched to MM, honestly, is because I like to make quick mixes based on genre and/or year, and that's very difficult in Winamp.
Dude, Media Monkey ROCKS!
I've been using it for over five years now. It's totally worth the switch!
If only I could get it to run on my linux box...
The haphazard nature of the tags in the various MP3 files in my collection basically make music organizers next to worthless, and I'm far, far too disinterested in going back and manually coding every last one of them.
So I pretty much just dump them all in a Winamp playlist, and use ctrl-alt-J to search for the songs I want.
Quote from: J ArcaneThe haphazard nature of the tags in the various MP3 files in my collection basically make music organizers next to worthless, and I'm far, far too disinterested in going back and manually coding every last one of them.
So I pretty much just dump them all in a Winamp playlist, and use ctrl-alt-J to search for the songs I want.
I was the same way before I retagged mine. And I've never found a good program for bulk tagging... I had to do all mine track by track. Actually I'm not even done, as I have about 3,000 files only partially tagged.
I only ever rip my mp3s from CDs I own, so I usually have to tag them myself. It was never an issue.
It's a big issue for people who download.
Quote from: ZalmoxisIt's a big issue for people who download.
Seriously. Half the people who post shit on things like Limewire can't even get the band or the song name right.
Even the legit download purchase sites have no consistency between them in how they name their files, or how they do the song tags.
Quote from: J ArcaneSeriously. Half the people who post shit on things like Limewire can't even get the band or the song name right.
What kills me are the folks who are using files that I know had to be spoof names from the Napster/Audiogalaxy days, when people used fake names to fool the filters. 5 years later and I still see files like "Elton John - Cat Scratch Fever" and "Weird Al Yankovic - Every freaking comedy song ever written on planet earth."
Quote from: ZalmoxisWhat kills me are the folks who are using files that I know had to be spoof names from the Napster/Audiogalaxy days, when people used fake names to fool the filters. 5 years later and I still see files like "Elton John - Cat Scratch Fever" and "Weird Al Yankovic - Every freaking comedy song ever written on planet earth."
The on my friends got the biggest laugh about was "Cake - Tainted Love".
Quote from: J ArcaneThe on my friends got the biggest laugh about was "Cake - Tainted Love".
:D
Now that is very amusing!
I use winamp too.
Quote from: Dominus NoxI use winamp too.
You should loook into Media Monkey. It's pretty cool.
Quote from: joewolzYou should loook into Media Monkey. It's pretty cool.
Well, you never know. I just changed my picture viewer/manager after like a couple aeons. I was using slowview for the longest time, but went with a newer one just the other day.