![]() If you want bit-perfect playback, you should use WASAPI in exclusive mode. They're all good, it depends on how you listen to your music. Any recommendations on which one is best? Also, does anyone know if there is a step by step guide that will take you through the set up process of these plugins? I haven't been able to find anything on the web or elsewhere that tells how to do this. You can't do that very effectively with iTunes.Mcateemc wrote:I noticed that MM4 supports WASAPI, DirectSound and Waveout. Then have MediaMonkey up and running with my library organized similarly to how I've got J River Media Center working. I could load my library in MediaMonkey, spend a little bit of time telling MediaMonkey what my custom tags are. The important parts of my organization methods are duplicated in the tags inside each file. All the work you do to organize your library and add custom tags can be transferred to another media player (as long as that other media player isn't something like iTunes). So it's possible to export your data from one media player to another. MediaMonkey and J River Media Center can save the fields it uses to tags inside each file. If you spend a significant amount of time organizing your library in iTunes you may find it difficult or impossible to export your data out of iTunes if you want to switch to a different player later. iTunes makes it difficult to export info out of that database. A problem with iTunes is that it locks things in a proprietary database. If you don't care so much about gapless mp3 playback and MediaMonkey gets you to play and organize your files and you like the way it works then it's all good.Ī database oriented player like MediaMonkey or J River Media Center is going to be better than iTunes for serious organizing of a library. Still a good player though and if you stick with lossless you'll still get gapless. So MediaMonkey isn't going to work for me. And I want gapless to work perfectly even with mp3. If you don't try to do bitperfect playback (ASIO) the gapless mp3 playback seems to work. ![]() It still seems to do FLAC and lossless gapless with ASIO, but the MP3 gapless playback breaks. My complaint with MediaMonkey is that it doesn't properly do gapless playback with MP3 files if you enable a bitperfect playback method like ASIO. A player with database features like that gets cool marks in my book, especially if you have a large or diverse library. It uses WinAmp plugins (I don't know if it's using any WinAmp code for playback) and has a very functional database for organizing and searching your library. I think of MediaMonkey as WinAmp with a good database added on. You can test it out very easily and quickly. If you're at all interested, try the free version and see if you like how it looks. But eventually I stopped using it as it was unwieldy - it did slow things down - and it also became unnecessary. I used the filter so I'd be looking at only one copy at a time. For a short time I used a filter because I essentially had two copies of my library within the database file on my laptop - one with my "working drives," and a second with my backup drives. Just sort by the nodes on the left side of the screen (artist, genre, album, etc.). But, unless you have an enormous library with highly distinct parts you will never need at the same time, I don't think you need a filter at all. ![]() The feature was offered for persons who wanted to have more than one library, which, to my knowledge, MM still does not allow (but which I don't think is really needed). ![]() So for example you can filter by genre, hard drive location, etc. What MM calls a "filter" is essentially an overlay that divides the entire library by user-defined criteria. MM as a database and catalog system is terrific and I cannot imagine something working better, given the metadata I want to work with.įiltering is a bit of a different question. Whether it now allows this in a convenient way, I have no idea. But, at the time, there was no efficient way to sort music by composer storing a large classical collection in iTunes was an absurdity. Obviously the Apple software has been upgraded since then. Click to expand.I can give only an unfair answer to that question - it wipes the floor with the version of iTunes I was using in 2007. ![]()
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