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Comments on: Killer Download: Top MP3 apps not named iTunes or WMP

iTunes and Windows Media Player are the most popular media apps available, but they aren't your only choices. Check out these full-featured replacement jukebox apps that may have just the features you've been longing for.

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by bharatheauror April 23, 2008 8:29 PM PDT: Like this Reply to this comment


by rrtopaz April 24, 2008 11:57 AM PDT: No mention of Media Monkey? What's the matter with you?; Like this Reply to this comment


by gullyog April 24, 2008 12:30 PM PDT: No mention of songird? Songbird is amazing! http://websperience.wordpress.com; Like this Reply to this comment


by firefoxluva95 April 24, 2008 2:35 PM PDT: Songbird would rock if it didn't hog so many resources and if it had an equalizer and DSP effects. I know they are probably working on that and will eventually put Songbird at the top of the list. Right now though, we have to hang with the other alternatives.; Like this Reply to this comment


by meeshach April 24, 2008 7:27 PM PDT: If you're looking for a great music player that has a very small footprint (starts quick and doesn't hog resources) then try foobar2000. For a lightweight video player you can't beat VLC. And aTunes deserves a mention as an all-in-one.; Like this Reply to this comment


by bighomer April 24, 2008 8:19 PM PDT: Must agree with meeshach. No mention of foobar!? Lightness and simplicity is golden, although foobar2000 offers some nice funtionality beneath its simple interface. Yeah, and Songbird would be great, if it were up to a stable release, but right now it's still too buggy.
It wouldn't bother me so much that foobar wasn't mentioned, except for the fact that winamp was. I used to use winamp a lot. I ditched it about a year ago and went with foobar2000. It's just better, at least for me. Why did you list winamp and not foobar2000!? C'mon, people! Wake up and smell the Ju-Ju beans!
Okay, I'm done.; Like this Reply to this comment


by gary85739 April 24, 2008 8:43 PM PDT: Media Monkey RULES! With it you can do much more than any of the other players and it works on iPods VERY WELL!; Like this Reply to this comment


by themorn2112 April 24, 2008 9:40 PM PDT: What about Media Player Classic? very basic player that plays damn near any file.; Like this Reply to this comment


by jopn April 27, 2008 6:58 AM PDT: i also agree with the other people that say that Media Monkey is a good and clean application, i like how you can use ipod, tag and organize your music.; Like this Reply to this comment


by skareta April 27, 2008 10:44 AM PDT: Steinberg MYMP3PRO by Pinnacle Systems is by far the best player in terms of the quality of sound and effects that you can get even from a mediocre recording. Organizations is excellent, too.
Unbeatable #1 where the sound quility matters. Once you try MYMP3PRO and make it sound for you... there is no going back, you can no longer listen to the pathetic attempts of the all the rest, those listed in the article included.; Like this Reply to this comment


by gafhptva April 27, 2008 6:22 PM PDT: Definitely Media Monkey!!!; Like this Reply to this comment


by jopn April 28, 2008 9:20 AM PDT: @ skareta we are talking about free software not pay software, in that range there are way better then the one you are talking.

Media Monkey rules in free software; Like this Reply to this comment


by Sleepingsun40 April 29, 2008 2:13 PM PDT: Skareta....almost all the mentioned programs above,are more or less FREE....your Steinberg costs 20 £...........so........yes,indeed....MediaMonkey is the best.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; Like this Reply to this comment


by jedimasterlego May 7, 2008 4:55 AM PDT: what about "MediaMonkey"? i am just starting to hear of it, and look into it as an alternative. first i read about it in a latin-america version of pc-world magazine, and then later i started noticing it as other "alternatives" for people who want to have good amount of control over tagging their MP3-songs after they've 'ripped' them from their CDs (like in my case, that i have a "mixed"-CD that i bought from walmart, a "mixed"-CD of classical music that i bought from a walmart-type store overseas, and a CD made by the band of a really good childhood-friend of mine from elementary school, who [now] has a production company of his own [as well] (and that's how he was able to produce the CD).

not to mention, i'd like to BETTER ORGANIZE all my MP3s. i'm also noticing (i don't think it's a "habit" though) that windows-media-player-11 (although touted as "much better" "than all the previous windows-media-player versions" (and i agree. even the standard-colors of this new version of windows-media-player are easier on the eyes, in a literal and figurative sense; yes, i do mean that they "tire the eyesight less", yes like comparing LCD-monitors to CRT-monitors)) does not let me "change the tag(s)" of my MP3 files. i find this (for lack of a better word) annoying, and i'd like to have the ability to do this (but that it would be EASY to do, and not "bloat up the software just to add this feature"). i have been able to find ways that MAKE IT SEEM AS THOUGH "iTunes" DOES IT, but i don't really like the way how it does it. i mean come on, "right-click [on the song-file] > properties" and then you're LOOKING at something that SEEMS to be a "tag-changing" thingy??? i rather KNOW that i'm looking at what i'm looking for, than playing "guessing-game" with the software i'm using, and/or TRYING TO GUESS "is what i'm looking at, what i need, or is it just something that will screw up my computer, and/or my software, and/or what i'm trying to do?, like in this case, change the "tags" of this particular MP3 file???".

anyone ever been in the same shoes that i have been [in]?; Like this Reply to this comment