Nonreality;286322 Wrote: > If you want to get away from the Itunes empire give Mediamonkey (it's > free)a try. It works with Ipods and is a better Music manager. Works > with most all file types and if you get the retail version ($20 US) you > can encode on the fly to your Ipod. I've been using it for a couple of > months and really like it and no Itunes for the entire time. > www.mediamonkey.com
Thanks - I already have MM, but don't use it to put stuff onto the iPod. I went back to using iTunes after some bad experiences with Anapod, and haven't dared try anything else since. (I still use Anapod CopyGear to copy content from the iPod, for fairly arcane and historical reasons.) On the whole I'm wary of on-the-fly transcoding; again, this might be Anapod's fault, but I found the results both slow and unsatisfactory. I used to use MM for transcoding too, but switched to using foobar2000 a while ago. My main use of MediaMonkey is to inspect my playlists after I've been re-ripping lots of albums; it makes it obvious which tracks need to be updated in each playlist. However, I use foobar2000 to do the actual updating, as it lets me drag-and-drop from a separate (file browser) window into the playlist. -- Brian P.S. Just spotted that right now I'm listening to Philip Glass's String "Qurtets"; oh thankyou, freedb :-) -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45277 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
