So... since AOL announced they're discontinuing Winamp and I've been using it for over 10 years... I'm slightly puzzled as to which alternative to turn to. And probably, because I stuck with Winamp this long I have no clue what's going on besides this all.
Mind you, I own an iPod thus I run iTunes. But here's my issue. iTunes cannot manage multiple music libraries very well. Most of the (physical) albums I own I ripped and have on my computer in MP3 format now. However, this collection is close to 150 gb of music. Let's not argue what someone needs this much music for. My iPod is 80 gb and thus iTunes get loopy when it wants to put 150 gb on a 80 gb storage device. Thus I don't put all my music in iTunes.
Winamp however had a media library and didn't act all loopy when I hooked my iPod in. It kinda went unfazed and just went on playing and on with it's business.
I've tried Spotify, but I'm not to thrilled about certain features, and the darn program keeps bugging me how it wants to sync my iPod, thus I haven't put all the music on all of my drives on this Spotify atrocity. I'm not interested in this streaming business either... I'll bring my own music. And maybe it's just that it's new and all, but my mind kinda goes blank when I look at this spotify thing. It's like everything is jumbled up, lol.
I've tried AIMP just now, that might do the trick, yet I guess I have to explore it a bit more to be sure if it suits my needs.
Without getting overly technical... I just want an MP3 player that plays the songs I select and queue from a easy to navigate library.
So if anyone has any other good alternatives and might have the same issue I'm having, I'm all ears what you have done to get around it.
Mind you, I own an iPod thus I run iTunes. But here's my issue. iTunes cannot manage multiple music libraries very well. Most of the (physical) albums I own I ripped and have on my computer in MP3 format now. However, this collection is close to 150 gb of music. Let's not argue what someone needs this much music for. My iPod is 80 gb and thus iTunes get loopy when it wants to put 150 gb on a 80 gb storage device. Thus I don't put all my music in iTunes.
Winamp however had a media library and didn't act all loopy when I hooked my iPod in. It kinda went unfazed and just went on playing and on with it's business.
I've tried Spotify, but I'm not to thrilled about certain features, and the darn program keeps bugging me how it wants to sync my iPod, thus I haven't put all the music on all of my drives on this Spotify atrocity. I'm not interested in this streaming business either... I'll bring my own music. And maybe it's just that it's new and all, but my mind kinda goes blank when I look at this spotify thing. It's like everything is jumbled up, lol.
I've tried AIMP just now, that might do the trick, yet I guess I have to explore it a bit more to be sure if it suits my needs.
Without getting overly technical... I just want an MP3 player that plays the songs I select and queue from a easy to navigate library.
So if anyone has any other good alternatives and might have the same issue I'm having, I'm all ears what you have done to get around it.
