Moon on a Stick music player

**SlipTheJab** · 2 February 2018, 12:24

One word SPOTIFY, end of.

**WTFH** · 2 February 2018, 12:49

For tagging and organising, I use MusicBrainz Picard (available for Mac and Windows).

I used to use MediaMonkey on PC, and am thinking of trying XLD ( X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X )

**pjclarke** · 2 February 2018, 13:11

Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post

One word SPOTIFY, end of.

Not free, Not lossless, No CD Rip, No organisation, No tag edit.

**pjclarke** · 2 February 2018, 13:12

Originally posted by WTFH View Post

For tagging and organising, I use MusicBrainz Picard (available for Mac and Windows).

I used to use MediaMonkey on PC, and am thinking of trying XLD ( X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X )

Thankx, will investigate.

Should have mentioned I'm Wintel.

**SimonMac** · 2 February 2018, 14:12

Originally posted by pjclarke View Post

What do folks use for organising and listening to your digital music collection? My ideal feature list would include:-

Ø Play most music format files, including FLAC
Ø Rip CDs to a lossless format, get metadata from the cloud and auto-organise into folders based on artist and album
Ø Import and auto-organise purchased music other than on CD, again using tags. (Like the 'automatically add to Itunes' folder thing)
Ø Ability to edit tags
Ø Find and remove dead links and duplicates
Ø Play music library from anywhere - my library is on Onedrive, want to be able to stream to a laptop , or phone.
Ø Ability to download from library to devices to listen when offline.
Ø Playlists, natch.
Ø Ability to play via Amazon Alexa (nice to have)
Ø Podcast support
Ø Free

Historically I used iTunes before I tossed my iPhone so most of my CDs are neatly ripped into folders on OneDrive. More recently I used the free version of Amazon Prime music, but the bstrds have withdrawn the ability to upload your own music.

I am now using Microsoft Groove as a player, but it lacks the CD Ripping function so I use the veteran Media Player for that, and Groove is missing Tag Editing and file/folder organisation features so I'm using Mp3Tag for that. It would be nice to have a single integrated app.

When I say 'music' I really mean audio, including favourite Podcast episodes and bootlegged radio.

Anyone tried MusicBee? I found the interface totally counterintuitive, but it seems pretty powerful..

I guess I could knock up a script to interrogate tags and auto-organise the library, but I'd expect there to be some decent freeware/shareware out there for such an obvious requirement.

TIA

iTunes does everything you ask....

**unixman** · 2 February 2018, 15:59

My general strategy is to have copy of my whole collection in several places (car, 2 music players, main hifi, PC and others).

I have Linux scripts in place to do all the organizational stuff required for that. A central archive in lossless FLAC, and the above copies of it in 256 Mb/s VBR MP3.

I use Linux tools for ripping and tagging.

Spotify et al don't appeal, as I still have the "ownership/collection" view of music, and I hate regular payments.

My ideal player would be just a large, mains powered MP3 player, with a large screen. Something like the Brenan but bigger, nicer, and with no CD ripping stuff. Just a thing that plays digital music. They aren't made though. For some reason, the industry doesn't want you to have a full sized MP3/FLAC/whatever player.

**pjclarke** · 2 February 2018, 17:17

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

iTunes does everything you ask....

iTunes does maybe 90%, no FLAC support, no android app (AFAIK).

This is the frustrating thing, needing a portfolio of different apps....

**SimonMac** · 2 February 2018, 17:20

Moon on a Stick music player

Originally posted by pjclarke View Post

iTunes does maybe 90%, no FLAC support, no android app (AFAIK).

This is the frustrating thing, needing a portfolio of different apps....

You never specified Android

And there are quite a few apps out there which will let you sync iTunes to Android, I think I used iSyncr last time I went none fruit based

**unixman** · 2 February 2018, 17:46

Alexa would be nice if it:

- could play tunes from a USB stick

- could connect your amplifier.

But it can't.

Moon on a Stick music player