Music player for windows that handles 60000+ songs. - Page 3

2162 · 9th April 2010, 9:38 PM

definitely foobar

Eggbert69 · 14th April 2010, 11:21 PM

Even that Winamp looks cluttered compared to my foobar setup.

There's heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of plug ins as well for all kinds of shit..
The entire music library I have ~600gb loaded up in a single playlist instantly.. 33 weeks 6 days and 9 hours worth. Not sure how much yours would be.

TrennaHowar · 19th April 2010, 5:14 PM

Nothing wrong with itunes in OSX.

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Originally Posted by t00ch

Foobar absolutely 100%. So many good plugins and stuff available for it, and its still so lightweight.

The best thing that I discovered for it was a plugin that allows you to use the iphone remote app which is meant for itunes. Works completely flawlessly, and has no trouble handling my 150+ gig library

Thats awesome! How about pushing music to airport expresses? Can that be done ? If so goooodddbbyyyee itunes :P

Sorak · 19th April 2010, 8:36 PM

*looks at his mass of 1200 songs*

i feel inadequate here.

timace · 19th April 2010, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sorak

*looks at his mass of 1200 songs*

i feel inadequate here.

back to thy corner!

edit: ~33k songs. I'm feeling a bit inadequate, too.

_the_duke_ · 6th May 2010, 2:11 PM

Does Foobar tag songs correctly? I've re-tagged my collection, but when I drag and drop them onto my Sony Walkman, the majority aren't tagged and I need to browse my collection via folder.

karltron · 6th May 2010, 2:58 PM

Lots of votes for foobar here... I havent used it.

I guess we know it can push music to an ipod, but more importantly:

Do we know if it can also read back settings from an iPod? Precisely, when using iTunes I can read back 1-2-3-4-5 star ratings given to the songs on the iPod and they are instantly applied to the songs. This is an important rating interface I dont want to lose.

Narikki · 6th May 2010, 3:17 PM

hmm foobar seems interesting.
does it have playlists? or even better smart playlists that add songs automatically when i add new songs according to a certain field?
like the itunes smart playlists, cos thats why i use itunes.

Hooblah · 6th May 2010, 4:18 PM

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Originally Posted by _the_duke_

Does Foobar tag songs correctly? I've re-tagged my collection, but when I drag and drop them onto my Sony Walkman, the majority aren't tagged and I need to browse my collection via folder.

Thats the reason i stopped using winamp and foobar, ~60Gig and got sick of track 1- album - artist, so i moved to itunes and tuneup pro, just drag and drop your collection of music into it and it finds all the data for it ^_^

as for 60,000 in 1 playlist, i would say winamp, I have had 120,000 and it handled it fine.

Audionut · 6th May 2010, 5:43 PM

Here's my foobar setup.

http://vimeo.com/9670010

halostrike · 6th May 2010, 6:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Hooblah

Thats the reason i stopped using winamp and foobar, ~60Gig and got sick of track 1- album - artist, so i moved to itunes and tuneup pro, just drag and drop your collection of music into it and it finds all the data for it ^_^

as for 60,000 in 1 playlist, i would say winamp, I have had 120,000 and it handled it fine.

don't you have to pay for tuneup pro? i tried the trial for it and some of the songs were tagged incorrectly from past experience. I use MusicBrainz Picard to tag my music now, but it still tag about 5% of the files incorrectly because its asian music database isn't massive.

edzknows · 6th May 2010, 6:24 PM

i find winamp is a bit slow, when searching for music (like in the searchbar, also adding new music isnt all that quick, but not too bad) with a large library. (compared to when i only had like 1k songs.)

BUT i am only basing this only 8.5k songs 44 gig library.

I just love the functionality of winamp though. i have tried foobar, but went back to winamp.

i cant believe people are talking about itunes

R31 · 6th May 2010, 6:34 PM

Try Billy.

Or, as umpteen other people suggested, Foobar.

kingjam · 6th May 2010, 7:52 PM

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Originally Posted by _the_duke_

Does Foobar tag songs correctly? I've re-tagged my collection, but when I drag and drop them onto my Sony Walkman, the majority aren't tagged and I need to browse my collection via folder.

What's the choice for retagging? I have about 25k tracks in various stages of tagging - bit of a mess really. Going across many different playback devices makes it challenging!

CZA · 6th May 2010, 8:20 PM

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Originally Posted by kingjam

What's the choice for retagging? I have about 25k tracks in various stages of tagging - bit of a mess really. Going across many different playback devices makes it challenging!

I tend to use MusicBrainz Picard to tag each new album as I add it to my library. Works a treat! Only thing it doesn't grab is albumart, but I use mp3tag to add it later.

If you do get foobar2000, beware of one thing: It's standards compliant. It writes the latest id3v2.4 tags by default, but when later versions of Windows Media Player see id3v2.4 tags it trashes them and just leaves the truncated id3v1 tags.

So once you install foobar2000, go to options -> advanced -> tagging -> id3v2 writer compatibility mode and you'll be sweet.

It's really Windows Media Player's fault for being so shitty with tagging/album art, wish I'd known about this behavior before it destroyed my playcounts, any fields longer than 30 characters, album art stored as folder.jpg, replaygain info and any non-standard fields..

*slaps a dev*

19th April 2010, 8:36 PM	#34
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Audionut Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 519	Here's my foobar setup. http://vimeo.com/9670010 Last edited by Audionut; 6th May 2010 at 5:47 PM.

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edzknows Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Sydney 2112 Posts: 528	i find winamp is a bit slow, when searching for music (like in the searchbar, also adding new music isnt all that quick, but not too bad) with a large library. (compared to when i only had like 1k songs.) BUT i am only basing this only 8.5k songs 44 gig library. I just love the functionality of winamp though. i have tried foobar, but went back to winamp. i cant believe people are talking about itunes __________________ Intel i3 530 2.9ghz \| Gigabyte H55N-USB3 mitx\| Gigabyte HD6850 \| 2x2gb DDR3 1333 low profile \| 240GB Crucial M4 + 2TB storage \| IBM PC 300 case \| 150W Pico + Xbox 360 psu 54 Successful trades

9th April 2010, 9:38 PM	#31
2162 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Sydney Posts: 191	definitely foobar

6th May 2010, 2:11 PM	#36
_the_duke_ (Taking a Break) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hey Dadelaide Posts: 5,205	Does Foobar tag songs correctly? I've re-tagged my collection, but when I drag and drop them onto my Sony Walkman, the majority aren't tagged and I need to browse my collection via folder.

6th May 2010, 2:58 PM	#37
karltron Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: WI, USA Posts: 76	Lots of votes for foobar here... I havent used it. I guess we know it can push music to an ipod, but more importantly: Do we know if it can also read back settings from an iPod? Precisely, when using iTunes I can read back 1-2-3-4-5 star ratings given to the songs on the iPod and they are instantly applied to the songs. This is an important rating interface I dont want to lose.

6th May 2010, 3:17 PM	#38
Narikki Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: hills sydney Posts: 439	hmm foobar seems interesting. does it have playlists? or even better smart playlists that add songs automatically when i add new songs according to a certain field? like the itunes smart playlists, cos thats why i use itunes.