Media player that will run a HUGE playlist with ease?

[Reese]

I'm looking for a media player(MP3s mostly) that can handle a huge playlist. My friend and I just got finished ripping his huge CD collection to his Harddrives and ended up with ALOT of files. The only problem is that MusicMatch, WMP and Winamp don't really handle a large number of files in the playlist as well as we'd like.

I'm just looking for a real basic player, with a fast and easy to manage playlist.

[JeremyS]

That must be a LOT of songs. lol I've gotten close to 3000 on my playlist on WinAMP before.

[glytch]

I've never had any problems at all with running my playlists in QCD, and I've got gigabytes of MP3s. If you decide you like it, I recommend the Soma skins. They're very compact at the smallest mode while still giving you all the info you need (song title, artist, etc).

[Lasereth]

My brother and my suitemate both have over 15,000 MP3's and they both use WinAmp. If ya don't have a lot of RAM it takes a while to load the list, but if you never unload the list then you shouldn't have to do that. WinAmp is the best concerning MP3 playlists if ya ask me!

-Lasereth

[brandon11983]

Everyone here knows I am a huge fan of iTunes. I've dumped my 10 GB collection into it on both Mac and PC, and it had no trouble with it whatsoever. My roommate dumped his 60 GB collection into iTunes for PC and it handled it with no fuss.

[Confederate]

I am going to throw in another vote for winamp. It's never quit on me no matter how many songs I tossed at it. If it loads sond info all at load, then it may bog down for a second, but if it reads songs info at display, I have never had a problem.

[Pragma]

I dumped 20GB of MP3s onto iTunes (for Windows) and had the application churn for a while, then crash - repeatedly. However, I've since switched to Winamp5 and have no intention of changing to anything else - so I don't know if that was just an older version issue.

The issue with Winamp that will make it take forever is if you set "Read song information when loaded into Winamp" - because then it'll go touch every MP3 and read the ID3 information out of it. Just change that to "on display in playlist editor" or "on play", and you'll be fine, no matter how much you toss at it.

[Reese]

I just discovered Winamps Media Library and I think It'll work decently. I'm still not sure how it'll handle 60,000 songs(yep, all legit too)

The only thing we don't like about it is when double clicking or playing a file from the media library it clears my playlist and puts all the files from the media library into a new playlist. It's not only hard on the computer(even with a gig of ram) but clearing a playlist that took over an hour to make is very fustrating.

I'll figure something out.

[namnori]

Originally Posted by cybermike

I just discovered Winamps Media Library and I think It'll work decently. I'm still not sure how it'll handle 60,000 songs(yep, all legit too)

The only thing we don't like about it is when double clicking or playing a file from the media library it clears my playlist and puts all the files from the media library into a new playlist. It's not only hard on the computer(even with a gig of ram) but clearing a playlist that took over an hour to make is very fustrating.

I'll figure something out.

I have almost all of my winamp stuff set to enqueue instead of playing directly. That should fix your problem. I'm finding that winamp's ml is too slow for my needs, but really doubt there's a better solution so I'm sticking with it. Running a Winamp Classic skin really speeds things up a lot too.

[sailor]

Im running Winamp 2.9x and have never had a problem with it--even when I throw all 20+ gigs of music at it. What version were all yall running that had problems with it?

[nospam]

I've never had a problem with winamp either throwing 3000 songs into it. i'm running the latest version.

[t3m3st]

try finding winamp version 2. If its a hardware issue, that might help.

[Speed_Gibson]

My vote would be foobar2000 with whatever formatting string and 'skins' (technically the foolooks extension but it is the easy term) if desired

[ca_xtreme]

xmms! WOOT! atleast for linux....then again everything runs with out a problem in linux......

for winblows imma throw a vote for winamp here also

[bbbbbb555]

i have the newest version of winamp, and it can run all 10,000 of my songs

[JustDisGuy]

WinAmp does the trick for me.

[Shirtninja]

I use Apollo. Its old and in some ways out dated, but I love the layout. I normally have 2-5k songs in my playlist, and it works flawlessly for me.

[skaven]

This may or may not be useful to you, but I use <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/GNUMP3d/">GNUMP3d</a> to browse/stream my MP3s from my fileserver. Works incredibly well if you have multiple people wanting to listen to music, since you don't have to explain to everybody how to "get to" the MP3s via SMB shares and stuff, just give them a web address and they can create playlists, browse music, and stream it off of the server.

[tspikes51]

Winamp 5 should be good for that.

[flamingpeach]

foobar2000

[redwhorns]

a lot of people say foobar2000 is great, i haven't tried it so i really can't say.

[hawkeye]

I have about 80 g of music, and I use winamp religiously. go for version 5, the music library is sweet.