On 2015-06-22 2:05 PM, Snit wrote:
On 6/22/15, 10:30 AM, in article , "Slimer"
wrote:

On 2015-06-21 10:24 PM, Snit wrote:
On 6/21/15, 6:57 PM, in article , "Slimer"
wrote:

When I got it I rapidly found out it didn't appear as a mass storage
device like my other MP3 players, so I had to install iTunes on a
Windows laptop. What a joy that was to use that completely unintuitive
pile of dung.

Yeah, iTunes is pretty crappy. It'll get the job done if you stick with
it,
and don't mind accidentally wiping out all your tunes now and then.

iTunes sucks. Big time.
Load the plugin for foobar2000 and never look back.
If you want extensive tagging get Media Monkey.
Anything but iTunes.

MediaMonkey is *THE* best music management program I've ever used.

In what way? Would love to see an example of some of the things it does.

Rips into FLAC, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, MP3 and OGG at the highest
bitrates supporting by the format.

If the goal is just to be able to play the music not sure this is going to
be a big advantage for most... but for the cases where you need it, yes,
that is cool. I have other tools to do audio conversion, but iTunes does
not.

I wanted the media player to rip CDs as well as play the music because I
want it to be immediately put into my library after being ripped. I
forgot to mention that MediaMonkey allows you to rip to a certain dB
level (to make sure that all of your music is at the same volume) and
allows you to level any MP3s you've purchased to match that level...
permanently.

Allows you to set the album art to file of any music file and even several
different versions of that art, allows you to edit every tag the file
supports, rips CDs securely which means that even a disc in bad condition will
work, converts audio files from any format to another, syncs to any device,
etc..

iTunes handles album art fairly well, and where it does not there are third
party tools. It does not handle meta-data particularly well, and it does not
handle syncing to anything other than iDevices.

In other words: yes, I can see where those are advantages.

How about lyrics? Are those built in? I *wish* they were to iTunes but they
are not.

MediaMonkey allows you to download the song's lyrics to the song
metadata once you put in the song information.


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