On 6/22/15, 11:08 AM, in article , "Slimer"
wrote:
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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.
iTunes as loudness control but I do not think it saves it to the file -
though it will save it to CD. Oh, and frankly it does not work well. Do not
have much else to compare it to, but I would not be surprised to find others
doing it better.
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.
I have lyrics on my ancient iDevice... they show there. But not on the Mac.
To me that is just baffling.
Also: iTunes is not just about tunes... it also handles movies (well, um,
OK, I suppose) and is the tool to control your iPhone or iPod. Why? Seems
that should be a separate tool - it is not just like it is for syncing music
it also handles everything from music to video to even applications! But
then it does *not* handle images - for that you have to go to Photos (or
iPhoto if you have not updated). Even worse, while you can sync movies to
the iDevice with iTunes, to get videos *off* the iDevice you have to also
use Photos. Just bizarre and unintuitive.
So iTunes handles the "tunes" part OK (not great, but passable) but then
Apple has a bunch of other things added (and even then in an arbitrary way).
Really it has become quite a mess.
I would love to see Apple dump iTunes and move to "Tunes", "Photos", and
"Portable Device Manager", with the last getting a better name.
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