Comment Winamp Media Library works for me (Score 1) 273
After scanning this thread I haven't noticed what people are doing with *seriously* huge collections, I admit i've never even tried another peice of software but i've had success using Winamp's Media Library.
It drives me crazy sometimes and I wish it has more features but it remains mostly fast (it sometimes chokes and hangs for a few seconds every once and awhile). My collection at this moment is 43,048 tracks and Winamp has scaled very well for me.
Of course without every file tagged and named properly it would be a disaster (I made this mistake for a long time and when I finally decided to go through and tag everything it took me literally months (I dont trust auto-taggers) I do all my tagging within winamp. Theres also a nice little plugin that allows the Library to read and tag FLAC files easily.
I also *rarely* search, I prefer to browse and pick something, I also *never* use playlists, and it's mostly electronic music so sorting by genre ends up being just silly. I browse the lists of artists and pick what I want to listen to.
We'll see how long Winamp holds up for me, as I add more and more the strange delay gets longer and longer and i'm usually adding 40+albums/week.
I highly recommend Winamp, it's definately worth a shot. I don't believe there is a 'killer app' out there for this sort of thing. But if its worked for me with a nearly 50,000 song collection it has to be doing something right.
Btw, anyone else with a disgustingly large electronic music/underground hiphop collection interested in doing some trading shoot me off an email plutonic(at)gmail(dot)com. Also if your in law enforcement i'm in Canada where downloading is legal :)
It drives me crazy sometimes and I wish it has more features but it remains mostly fast (it sometimes chokes and hangs for a few seconds every once and awhile). My collection at this moment is 43,048 tracks and Winamp has scaled very well for me.
Of course without every file tagged and named properly it would be a disaster (I made this mistake for a long time and when I finally decided to go through and tag everything it took me literally months (I dont trust auto-taggers) I do all my tagging within winamp. Theres also a nice little plugin that allows the Library to read and tag FLAC files easily.
I also *rarely* search, I prefer to browse and pick something, I also *never* use playlists, and it's mostly electronic music so sorting by genre ends up being just silly. I browse the lists of artists and pick what I want to listen to.
We'll see how long Winamp holds up for me, as I add more and more the strange delay gets longer and longer and i'm usually adding 40+albums/week.
I highly recommend Winamp, it's definately worth a shot. I don't believe there is a 'killer app' out there for this sort of thing. But if its worked for me with a nearly 50,000 song collection it has to be doing something right.
Btw, anyone else with a disgustingly large electronic music/underground hiphop collection interested in doing some trading shoot me off an email plutonic(at)gmail(dot)com. Also if your in law enforcement i'm in Canada where downloading is legal
