Ok, bored with iTunes' increasing sluggishness on my slowly dying laptop, so I want a small, decent application to do all the playlist sorting/syncing etc...
Being a poverty stricken student, I don't want to spend money.
Having a wander around the intraweb came up with a couple of options:
Winamp with an iPod plug-in
ephpod
Anyone used these? Any feedback?
Also it appears that ephpod simply syncs the files, so what would be a good music/media player. I only use it to play back mp3s etc, no video or podcasts...
EDIT: Oh and there's a program called Songbird http://www.songbirdnest.com/ which seems pretty good - any one used it?
Cheers,
As a player, I would definitely recommend Winamp. I've always used it, and I haven't seen any reasons why to stop - I don't feel it miss any features :)
As for the iPod plug-in - you shouldn't need that I think :g: According to Winamp's own site (http://www.winamp.com/player/), it is supported:
QuotePortable Device Sync - Supports iPod®, PlaysForSure®, and Creative® Devices
And if you in addition use ID3-TagIT to make sure all the tags on your files are in order, I don't think you should need much more :)
And if you use VideoLAN's VLC Mediaplayer (http://www.videolan.org) for videos, you dont have to download any codecs :)
Quote from: Othbarty;177444And if you use VideoLAN's VLC Mediaplayer (http://www.videolan.org) for videos, you dont have to download any codecs :)
That is a very good player. Can host/stream as well.