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Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:42 am**

I need a music organizing/browsing program with pro features and more flexibility than iTunes.

I just cracked 150 gigs of music on my studio PC and keeping track of it is getting difficult. I have developed a fondness for iTunes and how it physically reorganizes the music and functions as a decent ID3 tag editor. The album cover browse is super sexy too...

However... a good deal of my own collection is in FLAC format, and all my Vinyl rips are 24bit/44.1k WAV files. iTunes won't play nice with that stuff.

I stumbled on a program called Songbird which is like mashing up an iTunes clone with Firefox browser (it actually uses firefox browser engine). It is pretty freakin sweet! I don't know if it is rigt for my internet virgin studio machine since it is extremely webcentric.

I wish I could find an iTunes clone which would physically reorganize my library like iTunes, but did the other stuff too. do you know one?

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:51 am**

You need to get with MediaMonkey (if you're on a PC that is). MM3 is in Alpha testing. Browse by artwork in there.

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:02 am**

+1 on mediamonkey
it lets you keep id3 tags (at least for the apps database) for wavs and whatnot

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:30 pm**

I've got some really high hopes for songbird. should be the perfect crossplatform solution for me - switching back and forth on bootcamp every few hours. Check out the website for planned features - its gonna lovely next year if all gos to plan.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:35 am**

this is an older thread... so i've had to play around a bit

I have become far less fond of iTunes. I even switched to OS on my 30g iPod video to Rockbox and can listen to my FLAC business on the go.

I adore MediaMonkey, but am getting tired of waiting for MM3

Songbird isn't on my radar anymore, but it would be if I was listening to more webcontent and such.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:32 am**

I like the concept of songbird, but it is just way too slow and buggy at the moment to be used seriously...

I wish foobar2000 had iPod management. I just bought a new nano. :\

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:48 pm**

kaffein wrote:I like the concept of songbird, but it is just way too slow and buggy at the moment to be used seriously...

I wish foobar2000 had iPod management. I just bought a new nano. :\

there's an ipod plugin for foobar2000.

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Songbird and iTunes - the quest for decent file management

Songbird and iTunes - the quest for decent file management