I have a friend with a Sansa flash player whom likes to listen to audiobooks. Apparently he is using windows explorer to sync, and that sounds like a poor way of doing things. I am familiar with itunes, but that is about it. So hivemind, please point me in the right direction for a solution to the; organize, synch, and playlist dilemma.
I use iTunes, but also like foobar2000 as well.
Sansa can be in MSC (mass storage) or MTP mode. MTP mode works with windows media player.
Traditionalist. I hate Itunes. Explorer or command line copy forever! I’ve been sorting like this forever: (course, long file names added after windows 95 came about)
c:\mp3\Sarah McLachlan\Fumbling Towards Ecstacy\Artist Name_Track Number_Track
http://www.sansacommunity.com/blog/entry/10696/How-to--Put-your-Sansa-View-in-MSC-mode/
I use iTunes and find people that want to OCDly manually organize their folders on their MP3 players to be silly.
I was not aware that iTunes works well with the open mp3 players. The reason Explorer/Command line won’t work is because making a playlist for a book with 1200 to 2000 tracks would take a prohibitively long time. Though I do not doubt the diamond hardness of wisefool’s core.
DGS- I assumed that what you were looking for was a naming tool, and not a music suite.
Awesome at everything and free.
That’s a really great album.
Windows Media Player works great with my Sansa player. There’s a Sync tab that automatically detects the player and lets you copy whatever you like to it. I use it to sync all my playlists to the player, and it only copies over files that aren’t already loaded on the Sansa and works fairly quickly.
Yes, but Music Monkey does both. And can sync with almost any MP3 player (It even worked on my iPod)
Media Monkey. Srsly. Like iTunes for geeks.
I’m liking Songbird more and more. It’s built on Firefox of all things. They’ve spiffed up the UI and some of the extensions and skins (“feathers”) make it look really nice.
Songbird looks fantastic so far. Haven’t found an add-on yet for adding internet radio stream buttons near the main control buttons, but no doubt it will show up at some point. Thanks for the heads-up.
If MediaMonkey dealt with iTunes movie purchases, it might be perfect.
Listen to Kalle
It comes with SHOUTCast, but if you drop them an e-mail I’m sure they’ll try and respond.
Songbird gets my vote. It’s got a built-in browser, plug-ins for lyrics, recommendations, album art and a cover-flow thing, plenty of good feathers, it’s fast and responsive and has good play-list management. Smart playlists based on an artist, for example, and plug-ins do everything the main player doesn’t. It’s missing a few things that are still in development, like an equaliser and CD ripping, and it doesn’t work with some MP3 players. Mostly those that require official software, like the older NetWalkmans. Which is a shame, as they’re miles better than iPods of that generation, which are supported.
It’s worth a whirl, at least.
So because Apple has DRM on its releases, that makes MM worse somehow? That is foolish.
iTunes is the worst program mentioned in this thread for your situation. Use anything else.
It’s not worse, it’s just not perfect. I’m not saying the blame doesn’t lie with Apple, because it does.
But for users who want to deal with video AND music, they’re stuck with iTunes. Despite the ‘media’ in its name, MediaMonkey is best for music only.
iTunes handles video pretty poorly though.
i just use plexapp.com on the mac.