Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Need a flexible 'jukebox' program for WinXP

Sep 14, 2006 6:18AM PDT

I need a digital music manager (jukebox) program that supports the following:

Must have:
1) Location of music library is configurable
2) Maintains (reads AND writes) playlists in standard format - this rules out MusicMatch Jukebox 10 I believe. (The last time I checked, MMJB will read playlists, but seems to only make changes to its internal copy of the playlist.)

Highly desirable:
3) Ideally supports more than one library
4) Good (modern? Wink support and UI for playlist editing - drag & drop from library to playlist, more than one playlist window open at a time to enable copying/moving files from one playlist to another, rename playlists without jumping through error prone hoops, etc.

Nice to have, but not holding my breath (Wink
5) Ideally supports different download sets for different players.

Any recommendations? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Need to rescue (upload) music from iPod - in useful format
Sep 15, 2006 5:22AM PDT

My desktop's hard disk crashed, and I also need to be able to upload the music from my iPod onto a computer in the typical Artist folder/track name music library format.

Anyone have any suggestions for a music player that can do this much??

- Collapse -
Rescuing music from an iPod
Sep 15, 2006 6:09AM PDT

OK, I found some resources for rescuing music from an iPod using small 3rd party utilities anyway. A few resources of interest in case anyone is interested. I hope this helps ...

(Maybe this should be incormporated in to a FAQ/sticky for this forum?)

Please note that this is for the purpose of recovering a music library, NOT for anyother purpose (sigh ...)

-----

How To Copy songs from your iPod to your hard drive
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4719

Copying music from iPod to computer
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/

PodUtil ? free/ 10 pounds British sterling
http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php

PodPlus/iGadget: $20 successor to a very popular freeware option with many options in addition to the music copying feature.
http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/podplus

iPod Access
http://www.findleydesigns.com/ipodaccess/indexWin.html


EphPod - www.ephpod.com

Xplay - www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

- Collapse -
I thought you
Sep 15, 2006 6:13PM PDT
- Collapse -
I thought you had to use iTunes
Sep 27, 2006 4:03AM PDT

Not at all (although perhaps that's what Apple would like you to think Wink).

To my knowledge, iTunes doesn't solve my problem/address the functions described in my post. (Please let me know if it does currently.)

I reality, lots of tools support this capability - most of them in rather rudimentary fashion unfortunately. I'm looking for a better one. (See my original post for a few of the many things I wish the apps would do better).

cheers ...