Digital music software options?
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Looking to consolidate and simplify. I use DBPower Amp to rip CD's. I have it set to perform a dual rip where it rips the CD to FLAC and MP3 simultaneously and drops both files into two different locations. I use FLAC for my home audio system, and MP3 for my vehicles. I just copy the MP3 files onto a USB drive.
DB PowerAmp isn't very user freindly and not a great music player. I just started using it because I want the best possible FLAC files I can get, and it does that well.
I hate I-tunes. I don't like how it makes me do things. But I can't stand those stupid water faucets that make you wave your hands frantically to keep the water on either.
If I have to fix tags, I use Foobar 2000. That seems to be the quickest, simplest software I've found for that.
I have tried Media Monkey for creating a playlist and fixing files, but it's slow and clunky, and I just don't like it.
Is there another music program I should try?
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I still really like EZ CD Audio Converter (formerly Easy CD-DA Extractor). My needs aren't as advanced as yours, but it's pretty intuitive for the functions I use, and I do have to occasionally update metadata. I'm not sure about a dual-rip option.
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Oh, but I do use Media Monkey for playback. However, I don't get that involved with my playlist creation. I tend to just keep my most recent purchases in rotation until I've digested them, and then I transfer the tracks I like the most to my phone to listen at work. Since I have the Media Monkey app on my phone, I don't need to have both FLAC and MP3 versions of the songs. I just stick with FLAC.
Between EZ CD Audio Converter for all of the back-end stuff and Media Monkey for playback, I get what I need.
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Thanks. EZ CD looks a lot like DB PowerAmp.
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DOG is GOD spelled backwards. What others think of me is none of my business. M80 V3 MY GLOSS Cherry
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Do you mean you put on a wax cylinder or did you move out of the stone age and into the bronze age with a vinyl record?
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Depends on my mood ,sometimes i get the stork to drop its beak on my hand carved stone records and the music comes out it ass.
DOG is GOD spelled backwards. What others think of me is none of my business. M80 V3 MY GLOSS Cherry
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House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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Nope like this
DOG is GOD spelled backwards. What others think of me is none of my business. M80 V3 MY GLOSS Cherry
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I like vinyl. Very analog. No 1s and 0s. Try an original pressing of Paris Texas and hear the music.
Enjoy the Music. Trust your ears. Laugh at Folks Who Claim to Know it All.
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