Music Organising Software, alternatives to iTunes etc

[izz]

Bump ! !

I have an old laptop that I love, irrationally. I've used a mixture of various versions of iTunes and something called mediago which came with a sony Walkman (I love the Walkman, awesome sound quality and mediago allows me to 'throw' music from said old laptop at our Sonos system and play *my* music, which is lovely) however, the time to replace old laptop is nigh, has anyone found anything useful for rounding up all music files, identifying what they are and putting them into some kind of order for when I wish to port my collection onto a replacement laptop ?

e2a yes I know people have identified packages up there, upthread, but not for a while and even a couple of months is a long time in software.

 

[editor]

Bump ! !

I have an old laptop that I love, irrationally. I've used a mixture of various versions of iTunes and something called mediago which came with a sony Walkman (I love the Walkman, awesome sound quality and mediago allows me to 'throw' music from said old laptop at our Sonos system and play *my* music, which is lovely) however, the time to replace old laptop is nigh, has anyone found anything useful for rounding up all music files, identifying what they are and putting them into some kind of order for when I wish to port my collection onto a replacement laptop ?

e2a yes I know people have identified packages up there, upthread, but not for a while and even a couple of months is a long time in software.

MusicBee is still pretty good.

 

[phillm]

JRiver Media is excellent and well worth paying for you can bitstream output directly to a DAC for the best quality. It organises and tags all kinds of media very easily and accurately.

JRiver Media Center

 

[editor]

JRiver Media is excellent and well worth paying for you can bitstream output directly to a DAC for the best quality. It organises and tags all kinds of media very easily and accurately.

JRiver Media Center

1999 called and asked for its web interface back

 

[Winot]

Have been using Sooloos for years which was devekoped by Meridian. Then the developers left and set up Roon which is much better.

Stuck with Sooloos cos couldn’t be arsed to change but they have just stopped supporting Apple

So have been trying to do a native export of my 1500+ albums which are in Sooloos format into flac so Roon can read them. This has involved:

1. Trying to run software on old Mac and failing.
2. Remembering old Mac has Windows 7 set up as dual boot.
3. Remembering how to run Windows.
4. Finding authentication code for Windows
5. Updating Windows
6. Running Sooloos software on Windows
7. Realising HD isn’t formatted for Windows.
8. Remembering how to format HD.
9. Running export to HD

Am kind of wishing I just used Spotify.