Halp Music Library Software?

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On the weekend I bought and installed Windows 7. I've been installing all the software which works with Windows 7, and I'm now needing to install something to organize my music. I normally use iTunes, but I'm fed up with it's slowness with dealing with the 30,000 songs in my collection.

Can someone recommend good Music Library software?
 
hawk82 said:
http://musicbrainz.org/
Fixes file names, metadata tags (like ID3 tagging), folders, etc.

Pretty neat stuff. Been using this for years. Slowly going through my collection (56GB) and retagging everything.
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How long does it take to process all your music initially? I have 125GB of music and iTunes would take FOREVER to load them all in to the library.
 
i use mp3tag for renaming/id3 tagging. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

for the library I use MediaMonkey, lets me rate stuff, organize it, sort by year, album, artist, title, location, etc. http://www.mediamonkey.com/

it's fairly lightweight (whatever version I have anyways) and basic, not a lot of fluff. tough to find a music library software, guess it's all about what you're looking for, I recommend trying it out at the very least.

I used to use musicbrainz. not entirely sure why I stopped.
 
hawk82 said:
Not sure. I use winamp for my music player and just load a few albums at a time, not the whole library. Guess this wasn't what you were looking for. :|
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Well the id3 tagger thingy does seem quite interesting. Though I was looking for more of a music library/player kind of software application..
 
I would assume she hasn't ripped them to digital yet. So I would recommend 256bit MP3. And yes, a 500GB would be plenty..
 
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i just use itunes cause i have an ipod and i don't have any problems with it. doesn't seem to be slow in anyway when i'm browsing my >100GB library. keeps track of my play counts and all that shit so whatev
 
Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon said:
I would assume she hasn't ripped them to digital yet. So I would recommend 256bit MP3. And yes, a 500GB would be plenty..
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Might I recommend you use VBR rather than CBR as it's a more efficient use of space. The best settings are LAME V2 or V0. An album will typically use 60-120MB depending on the bitrate and album length. FLAC will be more in the order of 300MB+
 
Sunshine Sanchez said:
whaaaaaaat?
you??? im shocked!!!

i thought you HATED apple
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I do.. And I hate iTunes.. One good thing about iTunes is that I could edit each MP3 right there in the list without having to open a different window with the info.

Once I find something to replace iTunes, I will finally be completely Apple free...
 
Okay, so I loaded up Winamp library. I went through in the last hour and fixed a few albums with totally incorrect or missing ID3 tags with Musicbrainz. Rescanned library. I still have a lot of work.

Not really sure what the advantage of using a library is. But I figured I'd try it out and post a screenshot for you.

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edit: I don't even listen to half of this shit. A lot of it is from soundtracks from movies or that YTMND soundtrack (holy fuck that is huge).
 
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I've used Winamp library before. It's... meh.. I hate the interface, and the way you edit ID3s..

Maybe I have finally found something to program myself.
 
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