Windows - iTunes alternatives ?

Jalapeno

iTunes at it again, this time allowing me to purchase an album but not let me play it as I'm "Unauthorised"

It's resolved, but a right palaver.  I'm just sick of the bloody thing losing content, uploading to iCloud (without permission) etc, etc

I still need something to upload tunes to my phone.

Media Monkey seems well thought of - any other recommends ? (also, where do you buy legit content other than Apple ? Amazon ?)

TTony

Jalapeno said:

Media Monkey seems well thought of 

It's what I use.

Just bought MM5 (still in beta, but getting close to full release).

I don't use it for syncing to iPhone (because I don't have an iPhone!), but I believe that's quite easy to do;


MM has a very active and helpful forum.  The dev team behind it are also very helpful and responsive (check the MM5 beta discussions).

For content, I still buy "CDs" and rip them.  I'm expecting those to be retro-chic in a few years, so I'm ahead of the game.

MM is also pretty good for playback on the PC - which is where I mainly listen from.

Jalapeno

Ta, really helpful.

anyone else ?

skullfunkerry

I'll vote for MediaMonkey too. Before I got an iPhone I used MM and synced my library manually with my Android phone. I bought music from Amazon and set the download location for purchased files to the same location as the MM library, and set MM to automatically scan for new files on opening.

I copied the whole MM library onto a microSD card and put it in my phone, so I had my whole library with me all the time - then when I needed to add new purchases to my phone I just connected via USB and synced the new stuff.

To be honest, it sounds much more of a faff writing it all down like that than it actually was to do!

Simonh

I have the paid for version of MM and highly rates it, had iphones for years and while the new ones take a little while to get supported they always come through in the end.

Simonh

Oh and I still buy CD's and rip them, first to flac for the home media server, then to Alac (for the iphone) and again to MP3 to fit the whole library on a ipod for the car.

Jalapeno

Ta

Snap

Have a look at Vox - it plays hi res files on your iphone, but I haven't use the library management part, don't know if it actually has one tbf.

WiresDreamDisasters

Winamp still works.

Grumpyrocker

I used to always use Media Monkey. But the last few years have used Musicbee instead.