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Looks like I can finally ditch iTunes.
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<blockquote data-quote="jnev" data-source="post: 965561" data-attributes="member: 32078"><p>All my music is on an external hard drive. When I add music to my library, I want my music software of choice to copy it to that directory on my hard drive. Both iTunes, and now Songbird, did that successfully. iTunes however, took at least 20x as long to perform that operation than did Songbird. Also, any time I double-clicked a song to play, there was at least a 2 second pause where iTunes would beachball before the song started playing. This would repeat itself every time iTunes would start to play the next song in an album or playlist. Completely unacceptable, as I'm sure you'd agree. Songbird has no such pauses or freezes, ever.</p><p></p><p>I do use managed mode in Songbird because I like the way it renames my music files in accordance to the track number and track name. It just keeps my library that much more organized, and if I ever decide to switch software again, at least the file names and file structure will be organized and easy to understand (that's if the music software reads ID3 tags differently than Singbird). However, because Songbird renames the music files, when I open iTunes it tries to find all those songs again (which effectively makes iTunes unresponsive, forcing me to force-quit it).</p><p></p><p>So in essence, the main reason I use Songbird is because of how slow and sluggish iTunes was behaving for me. I have no clue why; my library isn't that large (~65GB) and I have a relatively modern computer (2.2GHz MBP). The external USB hard drive should not be a bottleneck in any way. I do like the way Songbird manages my files, but that is not the main reason I use it. If software like Foobar2000 came out for OS X, I would consider switching to that because I do find Songbird to be relatively bloated; I have no need for a browser (or the various other features Songbird has) in my music player. However, as a simple music player, it works fantastically, and has the added bonus of supporting FLAC and OGG files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jnev, post: 965561, member: 32078"] All my music is on an external hard drive. When I add music to my library, I want my music software of choice to copy it to that directory on my hard drive. Both iTunes, and now Songbird, did that successfully. iTunes however, took at least 20x as long to perform that operation than did Songbird. Also, any time I double-clicked a song to play, there was at least a 2 second pause where iTunes would beachball before the song started playing. This would repeat itself every time iTunes would start to play the next song in an album or playlist. Completely unacceptable, as I'm sure you'd agree. Songbird has no such pauses or freezes, ever. I do use managed mode in Songbird because I like the way it renames my music files in accordance to the track number and track name. It just keeps my library that much more organized, and if I ever decide to switch software again, at least the file names and file structure will be organized and easy to understand (that's if the music software reads ID3 tags differently than Singbird). However, because Songbird renames the music files, when I open iTunes it tries to find all those songs again (which effectively makes iTunes unresponsive, forcing me to force-quit it). So in essence, the main reason I use Songbird is because of how slow and sluggish iTunes was behaving for me. I have no clue why; my library isn't that large (~65GB) and I have a relatively modern computer (2.2GHz MBP). The external USB hard drive should not be a bottleneck in any way. I do like the way Songbird manages my files, but that is not the main reason I use it. If software like Foobar2000 came out for OS X, I would consider switching to that because I do find Songbird to be relatively bloated; I have no need for a browser (or the various other features Songbird has) in my music player. However, as a simple music player, it works fantastically, and has the added bonus of supporting FLAC and OGG files. [/QUOTE]
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