I've started to abandon iTunes for MediaMonkey, I was getting very frustrated with iTunes forgetting the locations of all my musics. I want to keep my podcasts in a directory on my laptop, and my music on an external hard drive, and iTunes doesn't really like that very much.

I'm just about getting the hang of MediaMonkey, it's quite different to iTunes, but I do indeed miss the genius function

Zune can do that easily.



But for serious, I've never even heard of anyone using MediaMonkey. Why not use something more common like WinAmp?

Dunno, maybe Mort's on a mac?

I've never even heard OF mediamonkey, let alone heard of anyone USING it.

Nah, MediaMonkey is a windows app. Sadly, there is no such thing as a good media player on Mac. iTunes is all there is.

I do love Winamp, but I was having problems with it syncing with my iPod touch. It may well have fixed since I last used it, but it corrupted a few of my apps and it seemed confused about the songs I had bought on my iPod. MediaMonkey seems ok so far, but I may well run into similar problems eventually.

Fair comment

There is that funky one based on Firefox/gecko, but I forget the name. It was featured on lifehacker not that long ago. I tried it once but wasn't too fussed.

That said, I love iTunes on macs, it just sucks donkey plums on windows (or at least it did last time I tried it).

Songbird, and I doubt it's stopped sucking since the last time I used it. It's horridly slow, especially with large databases of music. In fact, it wouldn't even process all of my music.

That's the badger.

Yeah both Songbird and Cog kind of suck for the Mac.

Although Mort, I host most of my mp3s on my external hard drive all the time, Zune and iTunes. I keep my library folder still located on my local hard drive for when I download podcasts, but then I just drag my music folder on my external into the library without "copy all songs to library", and it works fine.

BTW to anyone who is interested: I'm probably gonna sell my Zune80. Let me know if you are interested!