[Closed] What MP3 File Management Software?

iTunes does all that.

Free as well

There must be a way of doing it without selling my soul to Apple?

There must be a way of doing it without selling my soul to Apple?

Yes, there is - use iTunes. It's just a piece of software; no eternal damnation involved.

I use this on Linus which is very good.

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download

Not sure what its like on Windoze though

There must be a way of doing it without selling my soul to Apple?

i didnt see that part in the T&C's

There must be a way of doing it without selling my soul to Apple?

A very subtle troll with a nice non-trollish set-up. 9/10 and I claim my prize please

I do all of that using itunes at the moment, but it's a bloated resource hog so I'd also be interested in any other suggestions people come up with.

I do all of that using itunes at the moment, but it's a bloated resource hog

I'll give Amarok a look, ta

MediaMonkey would do everything that you require, not free, but not expensive enough to make a Yorkshireman break out in a sweat.

Since this doesn't appear to be a troll after all, I might add that I do use iTunes on my 7/8 year old XP PC. Sure it is slow to load up* but then it just gets on with the job of playing music without unduly affecting performance. I can even do video editing whilst iTunes is running.

*but then so is my PC!

stilltortoise - No, sorry to disapoint but this isn't a troll 🙂
My PC is a similar age to yours and I'm still on IE6 at the mo. Both IE7 & IE8 cause some of my music software to fail as they're of a similar age to my PC so I'm in dire need of an update.
What I didn't say before is I've got in the region of 1500 albums to deal with so loading it all into one bit of software will cause it to fall over as well.

I've got 600 albums in iTunes at the mo' but most of them don't have artwork. Maybe that is the bit that makes it go slow.

I stopped using IE ages ago because that WAS slow. I use Chrome now, hopping onto IE occasionally for Freecaster which is a bit iffy on Chrome (better now than it was mind you)

Wiksey you may want to try downloading a Linux live CD to try Linux on your machine. Will speed it up to 10X faser IMO...

soma_rich - You're not the first person to have recomended a swap to Linux and it is something that I've been thinking about doing for a while now.

Just wanted to add to this. I've been a long time iTunes user and happy enough with that. A recent Blu Ray player purchase has made me move to Windows Media Player. Why? iTunes doesn't support DLNA which means I can't hook my Blu Ray up to my local network and stream media from my PC. With WMP it is easy peasy and this alone has made knocked the desirability of Apple stuff for 6 as far as I'm concerned.

Not sure what other MP3 management software does that but I would certainly want to know before I moved to another.

PS Can't recommend the Blu Ray player enough. Forgetting the Blu Ray disc player facility, it streams media from my PC, has built in iPlayer, Love Film, You Tube and even selected Euro Sport (TdF highlights!). It is a doddle to set up and a joy to use and half the price of a PS3. I don't play games 🙂

Mozilla Songbird. Free, quality and does it all. Lots of (free) add-ons too.

is it s DLNA server as well?

Just wanted to add to this. I've been a long time iTunes user and happy enough with that. A recent Blu Ray player purchase has made me move to Windows Media Player. Why? iTunes doesn't support DLNA...

I just use both.

All my mp3s are stored in the My Music folder and I just have iTunes and Media Player pointed at that folder.

That way I can stick all my music on my phone with itunes but still stream it if required with media player.

Eventually I'll just move all the mp3s to a home NAS so all the devices on the network can see them.

By the way, TuneUp is a useful addition to itunes. It looks up album and track information for you in the Gracenote database. Generally does an excellent job with just the bootlefs etc that it can't find.

Having no iPhone or iPod, iTunes is looking a bit redundant now

another vote for itunes here, it does what you want it's free, looks nice. simple to use. You're worried about 'selling your soul to Apple" get a life. I drive a Ford, and have a Sony Telly, eternal damnation?

Use the Apple software for free. Don't buy any of their products or music, block access to their shop (option in the software).

Your gain, no money to them. Simple.

another vote for itunes here

I agree...or at least I did until I found out it will not share the library with other plug and play media devices (i.e. my Blu Ray player which is hooked up to TV and stereo). DLNA is supposed to be a standard and Apple don't support it. I'm off back to Microsoft

iTunes is good for one thing - putting music onto the iPod.

For the others I use CDex ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/) for ripping (free)
and MP3Tag (www.mp3tag.de) for tagging and naming (free)

What's so difficult about using a few different bits of sofware? Personally, I'd rather use the best for each part.

iTunes is good for one thing - putting music onto the iPod.

iTunes is "good" for ripping music, for managing music files, and for synchronising with iPod. Is it "the best"? for each of those things? Dunno. But I haven't run into any situation where I thought I needed something else.

[i]iTunes is good for one thing - putting music onto the iPod.[/i]

snore...

iTunes is good for one thing - putting music onto the iPod.

snore...

Infinitely less tedious than your last post.