I need a good MP3 Player which can cope with nearly 7,000 mp3's

[wahrez]

I have nearly 7,000 mp3's and need a way of being able to search through music quickly and easily.

I'm currently using Real JukeBox Plus, which although good, is too big and takes up too many resources.

Any ideas, what do people use and how many tracks do you have??

[RayH]

Any MP3 I took the trouble of putting into my computer I enjoy. So it doesn't matter what order they're in!

It actually sounds like you need a dedicated computer with professional software. But short of that, I'd use WinAmp because it's easier to create on the fly playlists. I'd create playlists in new folders on a CD-R/CD-RW. It would be much simpler. Also, probably less wear and tear on the hard drive!



[This message has been edited by RayH (edited 03-03-2001).]

[Bsdboy]

I use Sonicfoundry Siren 2.0, you can check it out here: http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=187
You can also download the free vesion Siren
Express,It has limited ripping,no eq,reverb,
or time compress/expand but is still a nice
player and the price is right.I think the
full version is on sale at Compusa now.

[jad1097]

I have somewhere around 4000 songs and use www.musicmatch.com (http://www.musicmatch.com)

[Variable]

I'm totally happy with WinAmp!

[MiKe85]

How much space does 7,000 MP3s take up?
(Just curious http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif)


Mike

[MadMatt]

Check out sonique: http://sonique.lycos.com/

Very slick product!

[BDAWBTP]

Another vote for Winamp.

[samwichse]

WinAmp seems to be the best for AMD systems (athlon/duron) to me for some reason. With it running on my Athlon classic 750, I hardly notice a difference in the speed ay which programs load. But on a friend's PIII 933, everything just takes longer. Not that it runs bad, just not as quick.

[Joel Kleppinger]

Winamp rocks.

Just hit j and then type whatever parts of the title you remember. It doesn't take long to fall in love with that feature.

[wahrez]

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How much space does 7,000 MP3s take up?
(Just curious )

Mike
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It comes to nearly 30 Gig (with pretty much all songs encoded to 128-Bit) and totalling 430 Hours and 39 Minutes!!!!

[RobRich]

I'm with Bsdboy concerning a good Win-based player: check out Siren v2. The interface is great, plus the mp3 decode routine "sounds" superior to most other players I've used.

I also like WinAmp, especially with its low memory overhead and simplified interface. For my notebook, I use WinAmp v3.0 for just these reasons since this system only has 64mb of memory. I also enjoy some of the better 3D visualization plug-ins as well.

Later,
Robert Richmond

[cyclone2]

Who needs Napster, we should all get wahrez's IP http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Variable]

Wharez, what's your IP??

[MiKe85]

I AGREE!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
No more Napster..Wahrez... Help us out eh?
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Mike

[Wiruz]

Man - sure are some posts missing here - including a rather long one by me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

to sum up my earlier so called "moved" reply:

Try Audio Galaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com) for mp3 searching - compared to napster, it rulez!

Winamp handles my 943 mp3's nicely, and i'm quite fond of the "J" key feature.

I summed up all the advantages of AG compared to napster in my missing posts, but right now i'm to irritated to retype it (as i said, it was a bit long) - but the main winning features are:

Impossible to cancel outgoing transfers (hate it when napster goes to 95%, and the !diot in the other end cancels - very funny)

Intelligent resume: if the user u are downloading from goes offline, it resumes from the same position from another user - nice!

try it - you'll like it...

rant:
and your mp3's wont disappear a'la sysopt...
/rant

It'll take some time before i can forgive my demotion to member.

[Variable]

Well thanks for your REPOST!!

I sure will give AG a try!
The main disadvnatage right now is that Napster has 9999999999999999 users and even more songs and that others don't!
But that sure is going to change when Napster is "shut down"!

[wahrez]

If you keep a good version of Napster when it goes commercial you can use Napigator ( www.napigator.com (http://www.napigator.com) )to find open source servers.

On the other posts, I would love to setup a sharing server with you guys but I'm only 56K!!!! Should be getting ADSL soonish though!

[MiKe85]

How did you get all those MP3s with only 56K?
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Mike

[wahrez]

How did I get this many mp3's with only 56k....

Well firstly, I've been collecting mp3's since about 1994 when I came across musearc beta release which had a nasty 50 sec limit unless you purchased the app, so cracked that and pretty soon I filled up my then massive 2GB hdd. (This was a 486 by the way!!!!)

And basically ever since then I've been collecting songs here and there and encoded my entire CD collection and pretty much all of my friends entire cd collections...minus the rubbish stuff of course!!!

Then I stumbled across Napster and it was like the gates of heaven had opened up...I was also at Uni with a nice big T3...so I basically setup a machine at Uni and would telnet into Napster from my computer at home and basically just kick of huge downloads and pick the music up a day or so later.

[RobRich]

My last reply has also been chopped from this thread.

In regards to AudioGalaxy, beware that the installation package includes WebHancer. WebHancer is a web monitoring utility which tracks your internet usage. It is supposed to be anonymous, but I still do not the idea of someone possessing a database which archives my net activity.

AudioGalaxy will still function without WebHancer, so be sure to remove this application. The standard add/remove applet found within the control panel will remove the executable files, but may not remove the registry entries or older log files for some configurations. After uninstalling, use Ad-Aware (http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10106-100-3782070.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.3782070) to clean up any left over files or registry entries.

Catch ya' later,
Robert Richmond

[Variable]

Thank you Rob. I don't take kindly to the idea of someone spying on me without me knowing.

[Wiruz]

Rob> I didn't notice that, but i did feel that AG was a little _too_ perfect. I'm sticking with it.

And i still recommend it.