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Better Jukebox Software for Bigger Libraries?

Posted by Cliff on from the we're-talking-almost-a-terabyte-here dept.

jimjenkins1975 asks: "I recently ripped and encoded my entire CD and Vinyl library, as well as merged my home and work computer's libraries (I work at a music company so my work library is very very large). It resulted in well over 750 GB of MP3's. I was hoping to get away with using iTunes to manage this, however the XML database file has grown very large, and the application itself is non-responsive or very sluggish at best, once it has loaded up (a process that takes several minutes itself). Is there another application (preferably for Mac, but I do have a PC) with similar features out there that can handle a library of this size with aplomb?"

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  1. Re:Amarok in Linux by Curien · · Score: 3, Funny

    Question asked and answered. Discussion closed. Next!

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  2. well over 750 GB of MP3's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Torrent, please?!

  3. Mmm, pop rocks... by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 2, Funny

    for instance, you could search for &(genre=pop, genre=rock, #(lastplayed > 30 days)) to find every pop rock song you haven't been listening to for the last month

    Mmm, pop rocks...

  4. Re:Amarok in Linux by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait ..... did I just hear "MySQL" and "proper database" in the same sentence?

    Oh, you were comparing it to SQLite. Sorry. Point taken .....

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  5. Re:Amarok in Linux by phoenixwade · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure we'd have heard a lot more about it since it was first suggested in 2002. We might if we could still hear......

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