Thanks for the great feedback. I filled my husband in about these options, and he surprised me by saying he doesn't feel like he has to use iTunes. He apparently lost his playlists at some point, and doesn't use the iTunes store, so switching to another program to manage his music library would be fine with him. He does have an iPod (or two) and synching with those would be good (although it's been a couple years since he last synched!).
1. Does that mean that MediaMonkey is the way to go?? Is the gold version worth it? Is that program better than iTunes or any other option? Is there anything to know about converting from iTunes managing to MediaMonkey? 2. Is dppoweramp preferable to MediaMonkey for ripping? It will be about 300 cds. 2. Let's say we do use MediaMonkey for music organizing. It sounds like it works fine with AAC, which is important since about 700 cds are already in that format. We're thinking of ripping the rest in FLAC format (I guess then I'll have to take a close look at the posts about how to maintain parallel flac and i-pod format directories, ugh. In the meantime, my husband doesn't seem to mind not being able to add them to his iPod). In case it helps, my husband doesn't necessarily want/need all his CDs to be able to be added to his iPod. I just ordered my hp MediaSmart (I posted about it on the 3rd party hardware forum) to store all of this on, so figuring out these questions is the next step. Thanks for any advice you may have! -- what_to_buy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ what_to_buy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51538 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
