After scanning this thread I haven't noticed what people are doing with *seriously* huge collections, I admit i've never even tried another peice of software but i've had success using Winamp's Media Library.
It drives me crazy sometimes and I wish it has more features but it remains mostly fast (it sometimes chokes and hangs for a few seconds every once and awhile). My collection at this moment is 43,048 tracks and Winamp has scaled very well for me.
Of course without every file tagged and named properly it would be a disaster (I made this mistake for a long time and when I finally decided to go through and tag everything it took me literally months (I dont trust auto-taggers) I do all my tagging within winamp. Theres also a nice little plugin that allows the Library to read and tag FLAC files easily.
I also *rarely* search, I prefer to browse and pick something, I also *never* use playlists, and it's mostly electronic music so sorting by genre ends up being just silly. I browse the lists of artists and pick what I want to listen to.
We'll see how long Winamp holds up for me, as I add more and more the strange delay gets longer and longer and i'm usually adding 40+albums/week.
I highly recommend Winamp, it's definately worth a shot. I don't believe there is a 'killer app' out there for this sort of thing. But if its worked for me with a nearly 50,000 song collection it has to be doing something right.
Btw, anyone else with a disgustingly large electronic music/underground hiphop collection interested in doing some trading shoot me off an email plutonic(at)gmail(dot)com. Also if your in law enforcement i'm in Canada where downloading is legal:)
Are you behind a firewall? I had the same experience until I punched the right ports on my firewall. Also try running a client where you can limit the upstream bandwidth so your using about 80-85% of your max transfer rate to leave some overhead for downloading.
Here's a good question for you then... can you please explain what damaged was caused by you witnessing "Playboy" at that young age? How about your brothers, how are they? Was any harm done at all? I highly doubt it, in fact you probably enjoyed it.
Kevin Mitnick actually did this when he was on the Art Bell radio show, he found Art's unlisted phone number and called him up making the call display show something completely different from what it should of been. Needless to say, Art was a little bit spooked:)
Back in highschool me and about 5 other guys were
pretty much responsible for the 100 computers and
the network in that school, the tech teacher was really cool guy and most of us are friends with
him to this day, he was responsible for jump
starting our careers and getting us some almost
real world experience, if not actual real world
experience.. more programs like this should be avaliable to students everywhere, i learned more with this teacher in 1 year then i did in all 4 years previous...
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After scanning this thread I haven't noticed what people are doing with *seriously* huge collections, I admit i've never even tried another peice of software but i've had success using Winamp's Media Library.
:)
It drives me crazy sometimes and I wish it has more features but it remains mostly fast (it sometimes chokes and hangs for a few seconds every once and awhile). My collection at this moment is 43,048 tracks and Winamp has scaled very well for me.
Of course without every file tagged and named properly it would be a disaster (I made this mistake for a long time and when I finally decided to go through and tag everything it took me literally months (I dont trust auto-taggers) I do all my tagging within winamp. Theres also a nice little plugin that allows the Library to read and tag FLAC files easily.
I also *rarely* search, I prefer to browse and pick something, I also *never* use playlists, and it's mostly electronic music so sorting by genre ends up being just silly. I browse the lists of artists and pick what I want to listen to.
We'll see how long Winamp holds up for me, as I add more and more the strange delay gets longer and longer and i'm usually adding 40+albums/week.
I highly recommend Winamp, it's definately worth a shot. I don't believe there is a 'killer app' out there for this sort of thing. But if its worked for me with a nearly 50,000 song collection it has to be doing something right.
Btw, anyone else with a disgustingly large electronic music/underground hiphop collection interested in doing some trading shoot me off an email plutonic(at)gmail(dot)com. Also if your in law enforcement i'm in Canada where downloading is legal
Hmm.. Shaw Cable where? I'm on Shaw in Vancouver and can get to the page just fine.
Are you behind a firewall? I had the same experience until I punched the right ports on my firewall. Also try running a client where you can limit the upstream bandwidth so your using about 80-85% of your max transfer rate to leave some overhead for downloading.
Here's a good question for you then... can you please explain what damaged was caused by you witnessing "Playboy" at that young age? How about your brothers, how are they? Was any harm done at all? I highly doubt it, in fact you probably enjoyed it.
Kevin Mitnick actually did this when he was on the Art Bell radio show, he found Art's unlisted phone number and called him up making the call display show something completely different from what it should of been. Needless to say, Art was a little bit spooked :)
Back in highschool me and about 5 other guys were pretty much responsible for the 100 computers and the network in that school, the tech teacher was really cool guy and most of us are friends with him to this day, he was responsible for jump starting our careers and getting us some almost real world experience, if not actual real world experience.. more programs like this should be avaliable to students everywhere, i learned more with this teacher in 1 year then i did in all 4 years previous...