Re: [slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-14 Thread autopilot
Foobar2000 for me. Just out of interest, i plan to give MusicIP a whirl, but how exactly does it analyse your music? What part does it analyse? Just the Genre tags? -- autopilot *Server:* SC7.1b (Windows Vista 64) *Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main room) / Squeezebox Receiver (bedroom) /

Re: [slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-14 Thread aubuti
I don't know exactly how it analyzes your music, but it does much more than look at genre tags. It's actually pretty uncanny how good a playlist it can put together based on a few seed tracks that you select. The idea is similar to Pandora, etc. Check their site for more info:

Re: [slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-14 Thread davep
If you are on linux then give Amarok a try - I have found this to be good for playlist making and it includes the ability to sample before committing to add to a list. davep -- davep davep's Profile:

Re: [slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Ritchie
foobar2000 is my personal favourite for building playlists. I think that MediaMonkey isn't bad either (and I use it to point out missing tracks in playlists, which foobar doesn't seem to do, though it's so configurable I wouldn't be surprised to find there's a way to do it). Either will let you

Re: [slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-13 Thread aubuti
It would help if you indicated what OS you are using, but in addition to foobar2000, MusicIP Mixer is great for building playlists. The main downside with MusicIP is that it can take a long time to analyze your library, but once that's done you're good to go. -- aubuti

[slim] Recommend Tool for making Playlists for flac

2008-07-12 Thread kimballhouse
I am looking for a good software tool to generate playlists to play through a SB3. I have about 1000 discs as flac files and another 200 or so MP3s. I find the SC web interface slow and non-intuitive. It is also unfortunate that there is no fast-forward function, as I have a hard time