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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 February 2008 )
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
Following on from the Single Folder Filesystem
article, Skytopia goes in search of the perfect MP3 player/organizer
for Windows. The judgement criterion favours the simplicity of the
interface and also the organizational capabilities of each music
program, particularly in regards to searching and tagging MP3 files.
After looking at various music players/organizers such as iTunes 4.7 (Apple), Musicmatch Jukebox 10 (Musicmatch), Winamp Full 5.02 (Nullsoft), Media Jukebox 8.0 (J. River), Visual MP3 4.3 (iProgram Development), musikCube 0.92.1 (Casey Langen), and MediaMonkey 2.3 (Ventis Media), we filtered the results down to three contenders:
Winamp (5.02) - Download latest.
iTunes (4.7.1.30) - Download latest.
MediaMonkey (2.3.1.845) - Download latest.
In the end, it turned out that no music software in existence has the
particular interface and features I was hoping for. For instance, take
the idea of an 'inbox' of music. Just like email, music that has just
been downloaded (or whatever) should be separated from the main
library, and then only at your discretion should it be archived into
the main library. All three programs have a "recently added tunes"
playlist, but not only is the implementation somewhat flawed, but it is
mixed in with many other playlists which takes up valuable screen
space. See here for more details if you're not convinced.
Also, I believe the 'library' window (i.e. the main interface in
MediaMonkey/iTunes, and the "Media Library" in Winamp) and
'mini-player' of such programs should be unified into one small-ish
window. Unfortunately, the left panel and other GUI components force
the main window to be large. On the other hand, the 'mini-player' that
they have is too feature-less (apart from Winamp, but you still can't
rate or add metadata to files there).
Before we go any further, here are some pics of the main interface,
'mini-player', music attribute list, and reviews at download.com:
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Last Updated ( Monday, 31 December 2007 )
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