I use jriver Media Center. They have a 30day trial and the cost of the product is $40.
Pretty nice product I tested it against Media Monkey and Foobar2000. Foobar2000 is a great product I love the amount you can customise it, however you really have to spend a great deal of time with foobar2000 to make it sing like you want. Also the foo_pod plugin for it that makes it work with the ipod lacks some features that I would want (maybe the author will add them soon). It lacks albumart, rating and playcount sync. The last two being the biggest for me. Media Monkey I did like a good bit and was cheaper than jriver, however jriver appeared to be a more polished product and jriver allows for more customization. Jrivers smartlists is just so much better than any of the competition. Now a note, jriver and media monkey do not support smartplaylists ON the ipod like iTunes does. This means that if you create a smartlist in jriver it will SYNC the contents of the list but the list will NOT be dynmanic on the iPod. The best example is a playlist of UNHEARD Podcasts. When I sync this list I have 4 unheard podcasts when I listen to the 1 of the podcasts on my iPod the list does not update with that removed. The only 3rd party app I could find that does support smartplaylists is foo_pod, however since it does not support ratings and placount syncing it almosts seems pointless to me. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22194 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
