MediaMonkey 3
I’ve recently dropped using Windows Media Player 11 for my music purposes. I have a pretty large library of music, and WMP11 was just getting slower and slower, sometimes freezing for over a minute while switching songs. It was getting quite annoying to deal with.
I tried iTunes, and it just didn’t work, it was even more unstable than WMP11.
In the midst of searching for music programs, I came across MediaMonkey. It claimed to support enourmous librarys, so I downloaded it and gave it a try.
It added everything in my library without crashing, and let me bounce around between artists and albums without a bit of slowdown. I downloaded the old Winamp Last.FM plugin so I could keep using Last.FM. I also downloaded the “Now Playing” plugin for Messenger Live Plus so I could still show the current song in my status message.
It uses very little memory, rarely taking over 40mb in my experience, which beats both WMP11 and iTunes by a huge amount.
The only real downside with it is that it’s interface isn’t as clean as WMP11’s is, but that’s a pretty small complaint when one looks at all it can do.
Highly recommended, you can get it here.
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