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Managing a Huge Music Collection?
subkid asks: "I've tried several different solutions to manage my music collection; iTunes, WinAmp playlists, visual MP3, and so forth. but none satisfy my idea of what I want. I have many thousand files and things are getting a bit out of hand. I like the functionality of iTunes but not the memory it uses. WinAmp uses less but makes finding the song I want is even harder. Things like musicbrainz.org help for making sure the songs are tagged properly but is there an all-in-one solution? How do you manage your large collection?"
Now we can be treated to a few hundred geeks arguing over who's music collectionis bigger.
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You know those plastic crates the dairy industry uses? There's a reason God saw to it that they're just the right size for phonograph albums.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
rm -rf *
Well, you won't have any more problems with the music collection, and you can also be 100% sure that you don't have anything unlicensed!
dick: "i guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records .. um .. what's this? chronological?"
.."
rob: "no."
dick: "not alphabetical."
rob: "nope."
dick: "what?"
rob: "autobiographical."
dick: "no fucking way!"
rob: "yep! i can tell you how i got from deep purple to howling wolf in just 25 moves."
dick: "oh my god!"
rob: "and, if i wanted to find the song "landslide" by fleetwood mac i have to remember that i bought it for someone in the fall of 1983 pile but i didn't give it to them for personal reasons."
dick: "that sounds
rob: "comforting."
dick: "yes."
rob: "it is."
Windows and Mac OS X rule the desktop
You say that even though you know there's just no viable alternatives to amaroK on either of those platforms. Face it, they will never be ready for the desktop unless the apps start getting ported.