It's been a month since I decided to switch to Mac and so far the transition has been almost painless; email switched over fine, I got a copy of MS Office for Mac so I could still do my work... Photoshop, Aperture, everything else was excellent.
Then it came time to choose an mp3 player.
I am about ready to kill myself over this. OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm beyond frustrated.
I'm looking for one application that can do all of the following things. I don't think it's an unreasonable list:
1. Small and light; not memory-intensive.
2. Doesn't choke when 30,000+ tracks are loaded into the playlist
3. Ability to sort files in the playlist by path and filename (this is important)
4. Ability to stream music from the internet or from network shares
5. Jump-to-file keyboard shortcuts
6. Simple, intuitive UI.
7. Not database-driven
I have tried the following applications and rejected them for the following reasons:
1. iTunes; rejected for the worst UI ever, gigantic memory footprint, doesn't let me sort my files how I want, and nearly destroyed my directory structure despite instructions to the contrary.
2. Songbird; huge, cannot handle all my tracks, does not sort by path and filename
3. Cog; does not sort by path and filename
4. VLC; crashes and burns due to amount of files
5. XMMS; resolutely refuses to produce sound (I have read every last how-to on the internet about this). It would be nice if this worked but I've ran out of ideas
6. Audion; won't even run on OS X Leopard (neither my Mac at home nor at work will run it)
7. Toolplayer; doesn't even have a playlist editor
I find myself forced into running WinAmp in VMWare to solve my problem, which in my opinion is a horrible solution. It won't run adequately in Crossover.
So... if anyone has any suggestions as to what I can do, I would be extremely appreciative. And before anyone suggests to the contrary (as has been said in other forums where I've asked this and received zero useful replies) I am not "new at computers" nor is this a case of user error, nor do I consider that I ought to have to re-think how I deal with 750G of music, nor am I just a Mac-hater (I just spent €2,000 on this, for god's sake).
There must be something out there that does what I'm looking for.
Thanks
Colin
Amsterdam
Then it came time to choose an mp3 player.
I am about ready to kill myself over this. OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm beyond frustrated.
I'm looking for one application that can do all of the following things. I don't think it's an unreasonable list:
1. Small and light; not memory-intensive.
2. Doesn't choke when 30,000+ tracks are loaded into the playlist
3. Ability to sort files in the playlist by path and filename (this is important)
4. Ability to stream music from the internet or from network shares
5. Jump-to-file keyboard shortcuts
6. Simple, intuitive UI.
7. Not database-driven
I have tried the following applications and rejected them for the following reasons:
1. iTunes; rejected for the worst UI ever, gigantic memory footprint, doesn't let me sort my files how I want, and nearly destroyed my directory structure despite instructions to the contrary.
2. Songbird; huge, cannot handle all my tracks, does not sort by path and filename
3. Cog; does not sort by path and filename
4. VLC; crashes and burns due to amount of files
5. XMMS; resolutely refuses to produce sound (I have read every last how-to on the internet about this). It would be nice if this worked but I've ran out of ideas
6. Audion; won't even run on OS X Leopard (neither my Mac at home nor at work will run it)
7. Toolplayer; doesn't even have a playlist editor
I find myself forced into running WinAmp in VMWare to solve my problem, which in my opinion is a horrible solution. It won't run adequately in Crossover.
So... if anyone has any suggestions as to what I can do, I would be extremely appreciative. And before anyone suggests to the contrary (as has been said in other forums where I've asked this and received zero useful replies) I am not "new at computers" nor is this a case of user error, nor do I consider that I ought to have to re-think how I deal with 750G of music, nor am I just a Mac-hater (I just spent €2,000 on this, for god's sake).
There must be something out there that does what I'm looking for.
Thanks
Colin
Amsterdam