iTunes replacement

[AHarvey]

Hi all,

I am after a replacement for iTunes, for some reason some of the MP3's the missus has will play fine in other players but not iTunes.

The software needs to be able to write to an iPod, maybe read from it as well in order to import songs that are on there, stream radio stations and play as many types of media as possible. One important thing is that you should be able to burn music CD's from it.

Any suggestions?

Buying music through it isn't an issue, lots of websites that allow you to do that!

thanks

 

[swinnie]

http://www.winamp.com/

 

[LeperousDust]

MediaMonkey without doubt, it does loads, and with its extensive scripts it can probably do everything and anything you want it to do .

Winamp i used to use in the 90's and it still feels like it hasn't moved on, used to be great though.

iTunes is just bloated, slow, and doesn't really do much for what you get.

Foobar is great, if you can be arsed fiddling with it, but even then the plugins are only as good as the ones available for it and/or winamp which still leaves it behind MediaMonkey.

MediaMonkey isn't the quickest, it's probably just a "slow" as iTunes, but you get a lot of functionality for that.

Personally i use Foobar (in its most stripped down useless form) as my default player so i can quickly play stuff from windows explorer if need be. If i want to run music in the background intelligently (auto or last.fm DJ so i don't have to even make a decent playlist i seed it with one track), and/or i've got a party on, and/or finding new music (via last.fm again) etc... Use podcasts, put stuff on my iPod, actually sort my music out in any way shape or form (tagging naming album art - although you should use MusicBrainz for this ), i use MediaMonkey. Definitely try it, if you get it all set up properly (as in doing everything you want) i can't see why you'd want to use anything else