According to my spies Halla of (Apollo Geese Rescue) writes
>On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:20 +0100, Mike Harrison
>
merida.demon.co.uk> blethered:
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>>>Don't know what iTunes is like on a Mac as I have no experience of (or
>>any great interest in) using Macs, but iTunes on Windows is absolutely
>>horrible. Slow, buggy, clunky and ugly-looking. I use Media Monkey for
>>playing / burning / ripping my music files and for loading up my iPod
>>because it makes doing just about anything with a music library (even
>>with a really huge one (1)) really, really easy without using vast
>>amounts of memory or hogging the processor. It loads really fast, even
>>with 50,000+ files and is very stable. It also has a superb built-in tag
>>editor.
>
>Now that's interesting. I gave up on Media Monkey because I couldn't
>get it to cope with all my music, and I don't have as much as you.
>Something like 30,000ish tunes, I think[1]. Winamp is not doing much
>better, but Media Monkey would regularly have a flakey if I asked it
>to do anything complicated, like play some music for example.
>
Version 3.03 (AFAIR) is what I'm using (paid-for version) and it's
-vastly- improved over Version 2. It's a lot prettier-looking also. And
they've ditched that naff-looking monkey face splash screen that you
used to get when it started up.
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>>(1) The newest upgrade version is capable of smoothly dealing with
>>100,000 file libraries, the makers claim.
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>Blimey.
>
>[1] Sod's law of music though: Doesn't matter how much music I have, I
>still tend to choose the same few hundred songs for the playlist. ;-)
>
I tend to listen to an album or various tracks by a particular artist
and then let it play stuff at random afterwards ("Auto-DJ" setting in
the prefs). Or else I select the "Not Yet Ever Played" playlist that I
set up and see what comes up.
Just lately I've been listening to quite a lot of stuff on the BBC Radio
iPlayer.
--
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Mike Harrison
