Hello,
can somebody please recommend me an mp3 music manager - a piece of
software similar to e.g. iTunes or Helium Music Manager - which fulfils
the following requirements:

* Ability to browse the whole collection by artist, album, title (and
possibly genre, mood, etc.)
* Ability to easily assign songs to categories (e.g. "party", "work"
etc.)
* Ability to automatically recognize files as "recently added" so that
I can easily listen to newly acquired music
* Ability to handle the track number id3 information

Nice to have would be an integrated manager for mp3 tagging (from/to
filenames etc.), and a good player as well.

I don't like Helium because I find the user interface not yet matured -
e.g. I never figured out how to use custom categories. iTunes is a
no-go as I don't want to install a software which takes over the
computer - besides it is a 32MB download for a relatively simple
task...

Thank you!
Al

In news:1135596105.874767.128100@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com,
Alexander Fischer <afish@firemail.de> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hello,
> can somebody please recommend me an mp3 music manager - a piece of
> software similar to e.g. iTunes or Helium Music Manager - which
> fulfils the following requirements:
>
> * Ability to browse the whole collection by artist, album, title (and
> possibly genre, mood, etc.)
> * Ability to easily assign songs to categories (e.g. "party", "work"
> etc.)
> * Ability to automatically recognize files as "recently added" so that
> I can easily listen to newly acquired music
> * Ability to handle the track number id3 information
>
> Nice to have would be an integrated manager for mp3 tagging (from/to
> filenames etc.), and a good player as well.
>
> I don't like Helium because I find the user interface not yet matured
> - e.g. I never figured out how to use custom categories. iTunes is a
> no-go as I don't want to install a software which takes over the
> computer - besides it is a 32MB download for a relatively simple
> task...
>
> Thank you!
> Al

I don't have a recommendation but I have got a giant list of them;

MP3/Music Management:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwmusicman.html

Something there - though I suspect that you might need a combination of
products - should do the trick.

--
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which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
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On 26 Dec 2005 03:21:45 -0800, "Alexander Fischer" <afish@firemail.de> spewed
forth these words of wisdom:

>Hello,
>can somebody please recommend me an mp3 music manager - a piece of
>software similar to e.g. iTunes or Helium Music Manager - which fulfils
>the following requirements:
>
>* Ability to browse the whole collection by artist, album, title (and
>possibly genre, mood, etc.)
>* Ability to easily assign songs to categories (e.g. "party", "work"
>etc.)
>* Ability to automatically recognize files as "recently added" so that
>I can easily listen to newly acquired music
>* Ability to handle the track number id3 information
>
>Nice to have would be an integrated manager for mp3 tagging (from/to
>filenames etc.), and a good player as well.
>
>I don't like Helium because I find the user interface not yet matured -
>e.g. I never figured out how to use custom categories. iTunes is a
>no-go as I don't want to install a software which takes over the
>computer - besides it is a 32MB download for a relatively simple
>task...
>
>Thank you!
>Al

J. River Media center does all of that and much more.
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/features.html

--
Galley's Music Scene
A different music topic every weekday
http://www.GalleysMusicScene.com/

On 26 Dec 2005 03:21:45 -0800, "Alexander Fischer" <afish@firemail.de> spewed
forth these words of wisdom:

>Hello,
>can somebody please recommend me an mp3 music manager - a piece of
>software similar to e.g. iTunes or Helium Music Manager - which fulfils
>the following requirements:
>
>* Ability to browse the whole collection by artist, album, title (and
>possibly genre, mood, etc.)
>* Ability to easily assign songs to categories (e.g. "party", "work"
>etc.)
>* Ability to automatically recognize files as "recently added" so that
>I can easily listen to newly acquired music
>* Ability to handle the track number id3 information
>
>Nice to have would be an integrated manager for mp3 tagging (from/to
>filenames etc.), and a good player as well.
>
>I don't like Helium because I find the user interface not yet matured -
>e.g. I never figured out how to use custom categories. iTunes is a
>no-go as I don't want to install a software which takes over the
>computer - besides it is a 32MB download for a relatively simple
>task...
>
>Thank you!
>Al

J. River Media center does all of that and much more.
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/features.html

--
Galley's Music Scene
A different music topic every weekday
http://www.GalleysMusicScene.com/