Never thought I'd say this, but there is nothing better than iTunes for listening to music...

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BigToque

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I've got all my music tagged and it's all organized into folders.

If I just want to listen to a single song now and then, I just browse the folders and open a song in WMP or VLC.

When I want to listen to a bunch of music while I mess around, I always use iTunes.

I find the "Broswer" that they have at the top in 3 columns (Genres/Artists/Albums) to be so easy to work with and I haven't seen a single other program that has anything like it.

Thoughts?
 
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phreaqe

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i disagree completely. i think WMP11 is far better for a number of reasons. biggest is the live folder monitoring. keeping my library up to date in itunes is a PITA. have also found that the "recently added" playlist in WMP is nice when i add a bunch of different songs by different artists. in Itunes there is no way to find just those songs(at least that i know of).

i used to use itunes and think it was the best, but then i decided to give WMP a try and just felt that it ran alot faster, didnt crash, and was just plain easier for what i wanted.
 
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phreaqe

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Originally posted by: nickbits
itunes has a recently added playlist but i like wmp better as well.
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huh. i guess they added that in the semi recent past(i have not used itunes as my primary in a while) thanks for pointing that out. that is a small but important piece for me.
 
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Alienwho

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Has anybody noticed that WMP in Windows 7 takes a while to load? I have like 80 gigs of worth of music that used to load up instantly in XP/Vista when I open it in W7 it now it takes a what feels like forever (in reality it probably takes about 10 seconds but that is forever when you're used to instant).
 
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phreaqe

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i have only launched on a test laptop in win7 and did not notice any issues, however the library consisted of the songs included with the OS. sorry that does not help you at all.
 
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abaez

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Originally posted by: BigToque
I've got all my music tagged and it's all organized into folders.

If I just want to listen to a single song now and then, I just browse the folders and open a song in WMP or VLC.

When I want to listen to a bunch of music while I mess around, I always use iTunes.

I find the "Broswer" that they have at the top in 3 columns (Genres/Artists/Albums) to be so easy to work with and I haven't seen a single other program that has anything like it.

Thoughts?
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The browser is in many other music programs, including songbird and mediamonkey. iTunes does nothing new in that regard.
 
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DaveSimmons

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I use foobar, but I usually play full CDs not playlists. My collection is organized in folders (artist) (CD) so it's easy to add what I want to the play queue.
 
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Trevelyan

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I agree OP... nothing comes close to iTunes as far as keeping music organized and painless library browsing.
 
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The Boston Dangler

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Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
I use foobar, but I usually play full CDs not playlists. My collection is organized in folders (artist) (CD) so it's easy to add what I want to the play queue.
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:thumbsup:
 
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ShawnD1

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Originally posted by: BigToque
I find the "Broswer" that they have at the top in 3 columns (Genres/Artists/Albums) to be so easy to work with and I haven't seen a single other program that has anything like it.
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I've never found those to be useful since one would expect most of the music to be the same genre anyway. The average person doesn't have 100 songs that are country then 100 that are rap then 100 classical, it's more like 299 rock songs and that 1 country song. If I sort it by "rock" and it shows 99% of the songs on my computer, that doesn't seem very useful. The artists label doesn't help either since the files are labeled such as "Aerosmith - Sweet Emotionl.mp3"; the songs are sorted by artist simply by sorting the file names alphabetically. The albums thing never made sense to me. Why does it matter what album a song is from?

iTunes is a good player but I had to remove it because it tries to jack my system the way Realplayer does. If I plug in my ipod which is used for file storage, iTunes starts itself and gives me an error about the firmware. It's not bad just 1 time, but when that crap pops up every single time, that's bullshit. Just leave me alone already. I'm also not too keen on the Apple software update service it installs and has running in the background. I can understand software trying to update itself, but why does it need to install system services like that? What were they thinking when they wrote that? Can you imagine how screwed up your computer would be if every piece of software installed itself as a service like that?

 
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NeoV

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folder monitoring and the lack of an integrated lyrics mod are the only negatives to Itunes I think.
 
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w3stfa11

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I need iTunes to have a Now Playing playlist window like in Winamp where I can just drag songs onto it. That's the only reason why I use Winamp.
 
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JackBurton

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Originally posted by: Trevelyan
I agree OP... nothing comes close to iTunes as far as keeping music organized and painless library browsing.
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x2. I love iTunes. I hate WMP.
 
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starams5

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Originally posted by: w3stfa11
I need iTunes to have a Now Playing playlist window like in Winamp where I can just drag songs onto it. That's the only reason why I use Winamp.
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New version released this morning Winamp 5.56 Build 2512.
 
AFurryReptile

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I'm really starting to fall in love with Mozilla's Songbird. While it's still technically in beta, and bugs are to be expected, I've found that it runs very well under my W7 install. Its' support for addons is what really gets me, as I can get all of the features that you guys have mentioned with Songbird: a Now Playing list, equalizer, iPod support, etc, all in an iTunes-esque format.

http://www.getsongbird.com/

That being said, it is still missing some basic functionality, like CD ripping and video playback. They do, however, have plans to make that work.

http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap
 
MrChad

MrChad

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Originally posted by: AFurryReptile
I'm really starting to fall in love with Mozilla's Songbird. While it's still technically in beta, and bugs are to be expected, I've found that it runs very well under my W7 install. Its' support for addons is what really gets me, as I can get all of the features that you guys have mentioned with Songbird: a Now Playing list, equalizer, iPod support, etc, all in an iTunes-esque format.

http://www.getsongbird.com/

That being said, it is still missing some basic functionality, like CD ripping and video playback. They do, however, have plans to make that work.

http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Roadmap
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Unfortunately it does not support the iPod Touch or iPhone.

Songbird uses Mozilla code for some of the UI, but it is not developed by Mozilla.
 
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Trevelyan

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Songbird addresses the one issue I have with iTunes: speed.

But my new i7 rig should make that a moot point anyways :p
 
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