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What do you use to manage your music?

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What do you guys use to manage your music/media?
iTunes
MediaMonkey
Winamp
????

I've been using iTunes forever. Just wondering if there is anything better out there
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Spotify
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I put all my music on a portable 500 GB Hard Drive (only used about 100 GB so far) and listen in the car. My car has bluetooth and I can play any track, artist or album by voice command. It's pretty sweet. On my computer's hard drive I have all the music in folders and use either itunes or Windows Media to play it. I don't really have a preference.
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Ron Burgundy wrote:Spotify


this.

I used to try and carry everything on my iPhone. Spotify is much more practical and I just download anything that spotify doesn't have onto the phone itself. Streaming some Dimmu Borgir on spotify at work at this very moment.
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Like most things I own, my music is a horrific disorganized mess.

I don't even bother trying to organize it. I just pop 3 or 4 albums on my mp3 player and alternate them in and out.

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I already own so much music. I don't really think I'd go with a streaming service
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Well then I used iTunes and thought it was just fine. Organized it well enough for what I wanted.

Though at that time I was pretty anal abut my music would actually took the time to make sure artists and songs were spelled and grammatically correct. With iTunes it can take a little time but for what I wanted I certainly didn't mind.

I guess what I'm saying is it was fine for me but probably better options.
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ovid9 wrote:Like most things I own, my music is a horrific disorganized mess.

I don't even bother trying to organize it. I just pop 3 or 4 albums on my mp3 player and alternate them in and out.

I am not a luddite, I am a cheap SOB. :lol:



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Man, you guys haven't converted your CD collection over to mp3's? I like having all my music available in one place so I can play it on the computer or in my car
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Windows Media Player
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Media player/ external hamster.

Not a massive fan of itunes.
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I use iTunes, just makes things so easy, though I'm not too in love with their new search, I preferred how the results were filtered in the older versions.
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Winamp. Been using it for like, 15(?) years now, and see no reason to change.
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