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What Music Library Software do you use?
For the longest time, I never used any music software to organize my music collection...I didn't even use playlists or anything - I just organized things in folders. About a year ago I decided to try iTunes for organizing my music, and I really enjoyed it. It was really perfect for my needs.....Until my music collection breached the 10,000 songs mark, at which point iTunes became so slow and laggy, and took up so much CPU, I decided to find something else.
I tried Songbird, which is very similar to iTunes, but the story was the same...Too laggy, and generally slow.
So I moved to Windows Media Player, which was very excellent - speedy, nice features - almost perfect - except for compatibility issues. Since I'd been using iTunes for so long, a lot of my music is in M4A format, which WMP doesn't support. The same goes for FLAC, and APE, which are also common in my collection. I can convert these lossless files into MP3s or M4As without losing any significant quality, but I don't want to convert an already lossy 8 MB M4A file into a 24 MB MP3 just so that I can keep the quality - it's a huge waste of space. So I abandoned WMP.
Right now, I'm using Foobar2000 since it accepts all music formats and is very speedy. It's still not perfect, as it's library functionality is no where near as good as the other three I tried before it, but I'm still tweaking it to see what I can improve.
So I want to know what members of the TFP use for their collections. I'll accept any advice, and especially welcome solutions for a 15,000+ songs, 80 GB music collection.
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I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet
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