I tunes alternative

[Noddy made me]

Ive spent two hours looking through the posts and not found it.

Im sure i remember someone posting up an alternative to itunes. Ive spent ages putting all my albums , cds , mp3s onto the wireless hard drive leaving the pc and laptop all sparkly clean. Now the bloody kids want to use their ipods again(having not used them since i bought them 2christmass ago) and idont want to put all that crap back on when i sync the two together.

Its ten past three but im sure that made sense

" about five bank accounts, three ounces and two vehicles "

Im having a Dre session .....

 

[wheeledwidewebb]

Shite as it is, doesn't itunes let you specifiy where your music library is located?

Assuming it does then speicify the path to the folders that you have stored it in on your wireless hard drive thingy.

I don't know if it supports UNC paths so you might have to map a drive to it.

If it supports UNC then your path will be something like

\\wiresless_harddisk\share_name\music_folder_name

Otherwise use the net use command (assuming you are not using an apple or some other kind of fruit) like so,

net use t: \\wiresless_harddisk\share_name\music_folder_name /persistent:yes

That will point a T: drive at your hard disk, you can then specifiy by that drive letter in Itunes.

If you are on a mac then I am sure there is some way of drive mapping that somebody more enlightened can inform you of.

 

[richie]

Shite as it is, doesn't itunes let you specifiy where your music library is located?

Assuming it does then speicify the path to the folders that you have stored it in on your wireless hard drive thingy.

I don't know if it supports UNC paths so you might have to map a drive to it.

If it supports UNC then your path will be something like

\\wiresless_harddisk\share_name\music_folder_name

Otherwise use the net use command (assuming you are not using an apple or some other kind of fruit) like so,

net use t: \\wiresless_harddisk\share_name\music_folder_name /persistent:yes

That will point a T: drive at your hard disk, you can then specifiy by that drive letter in Itunes.

If you are on a mac then I am sure there is some way of drive mapping that somebody more enlightened can inform you of.

Although the above is more or less correct, it is still a good idea to use something else, Itunes, sucks....

(I have my music on external drive using Itunes. All works well for a while even when the external drive changes its letter... But all of a sudden Itunes does not want to know anymore, even when the drive letter is right... Go figure)

Someone here knows, and I am waiting for the reply too

 

[richie]

Did a search Media Monkey was the only one I found that is mentioned...

 

[Noddy made me]

Would it work if i put the itunes software on the external hard drive or does it need a pc to run

 

[richie]

Would it work if i put the itunes software on the external hard drive or does it need a pc to run

No that won't work, sounds neat but won't work. Unless someone proves me wrong.

 

[Jon]

Ive spent two hours looking through the posts and not found it.

Im sure i remember someone posting up an alternative to itunes.

Did a search Media Monkey was the only one I found that is mentioned...

Media Monkey

Originally recommended by Motomartin - add his name into the searches and you'll have a few threads to read where it's mentioned here

 

[jimbobby]

foobar2000

On a pc I use foobar2000

It is fully customisable and there are loads of useful plugins for it.

it is not too resource hungry which is the reason i started to use it.

There is a whole set of audiophiles who rave on about it, but if you just need to organise a lot of music i don't think there is much better around, especially for free.

The downside is that is that it can be slightly complex to start with, but it is worth the effort of learning what you can do with it.

more details here:

www.foobar2000.org

 

[Noddy made me]

No that won't work, sounds neat but won't work. Unless someone proves me wrong.

It does. I did it tonight. Itunes now sits snugly amongst my ... errrr ... tunes on my external hard drive.
Will see how it goes, but so far so good
Might ask santa for a new shuffle for christmas , im allways nicking the kids ones when im cutting the grass etc.
Need to learn how to use itunes though im sure im doing it the long way

Regards Tony

 

[richie]

Well done Tony, let me know what happens when your external drive gets allocated a new drive letter, if it still works, I will try it too...

 

[Deleted account W]

Well done Tony, let me know what happens when your external drive gets allocated a new drive letter, if it still works, I will try it too...

This may help

 

[richie]

This may help

Thanks Kev, TBH I thought that it was a good feature removed from XP but as always it only needs someone to show you the way....

 

[Noddy made me]

Well done Tony, let me know what happens when your external drive gets allocated a new drive letter, if it still works, I will try it too...

Not exactly sure what you mean Richie.
I guess all our set ups are different, however my ext hard drive lets you choose its letter when you first mount/allocate it.
Why would it get given a new drive letter ?

 

[cookie]

Not exactly sure what you mean Richie.
I guess all our set ups are different, however my ext hard drive lets you choose its letter when you first mount/allocate it.
Why would it get given a new drive letter ?

if you add another drive of some sort, windows may well re-allocate drive letters throughout leaving itunes wondering where the library has gone. happened to me, and never did manage to get it working again, had to clear itunes and re import everything

 

[everywherevirtually]

Songbird is pretty cool. It's developed by Mozilla the same people that brought you the Firefox Browser...

http://www.getsongbird.com/

 

[Redboots]

if you add another drive of some sort, windows may well re-allocate drive letters throughout leaving itunes wondering where the library has gone. happened to me, and never did manage to get it working again, had to clear itunes and re import everything

I assign all "external" drives, including DVD r/w's starting at Z - Y - X etc.
Windows will always assign a new drive, be it a pen drive, SD card, whatever, with the next available letter after C.

Sticking them at the end, they don't get interfered with

John

 

[Noddy made me]

Ritchie , its all good
No problems with letters being allocated, as i said before windows lets you choose it when you mount/allocate it. so far so good, no problems at all.

HOWEVER , feckin i tunes is a pain in the feckin backside everytime i want to import another album it has to change to track from wma to aac etc etc and it takes feckin forever
Now i remember why i started this thread in the first place , i was looking for an alternative to itunes

 

[EggChaser]

I haven't tried it yet but the latest iTunes apparently lets you share music stores between multiple computers in your house.

Also If you set iTunes to rip in .MP3 format - you will only run into the AAC stuff against items you downloaded from the iTunes store.

 

[Noddy made me]

I haven't tried it yet but the latest iTunes apparently lets you share music stores between multiple computers in your house.

My ext hard drive is plugged into the wireless modem/router so its sent all over the house anyway

edit : is that the new version its asking me to download , is that any better ?

Regards Tony

 

[Big Lee]

Any more ideas to itunes alternatives? seeing as out of a playlist of 75 songs I can play 10 after I was foolish enough to "upgrade"

I`ve just checked and out of 4700 files the bastard has lost 3500 :mad