Looking for an easy-to-use music collection database software / player

BillyBeePosted at 2020-01-02 09:17:26(259Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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I'm an old-time dBase and Alpha Four (now called Alpha Five) database user and want to simplify access, searching and playing for my music collection (several Terabytes in size).  

I have not been able to find an existing software cataloger/music player that is suitable for a mostly classical music collection. I would even be willing to custom build my own database application if I could get a copy of dBase or Alpha that would run in Winows 10.

Any suggestions? Or, should I just be content with a nested folder structure?

 
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miok:_super_admin:Posted at 2020-01-02 14:01:34(259Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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For extremely large music collections, I recommend MediaMonkey.
It can easily handle libraries large enough to bog down other applications and comes with many other useful features, including the ability to create a list of all your music in PDF or HTML format.
For listening to any audio format, I usually use JetAudio  with K-Lite Codec Pack installed and have yet to find any audio file it won't play but to manage my 2+TB music library, nothing I have tried comes close to preforming as well as MediaMonkey.

 
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zeke23:_vip::_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_sun:Posted at 2020-01-02 15:25:11(259Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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miok wrote:

For extremely large music collections, I recommend MediaMonkey.
It can easily handle libraries large enough to bog down other applications and comes with many other useful features, including the ability to create a list of all your music in PDF or HTML format.
For listening to any audio format, I usually use JetAudio  with K-Lite Codec Pack installed and have yet to find any audio file it won't play but to manage my 2+TB music library, nothing I have tried comes close to preforming as well as MediaMonkey.
i second that Media Monkey is very easy to use even the free one is excellent:-)

 
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Csabaxb:_vip::_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-01-02 16:13:49(259Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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hello, in the past i use Aimp, and Foobar software 4 my 3000 audio cd, what i own
you can try them and see the results beeter say, listen the result:D
that i can say, foobar have the best sound quality

 
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BillyBeePosted at 2020-02-14 13:35:46(253Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Thanks to all for the recommendations.  It'll take a while  to work through the suggestions. I have used Foobar and, yes, it does have great sound quality. I'm not sure of how good it will be in cataloging. I shall look at that.

Media Monkey is one that I'll start with. I like that it natively supports disk image files.  I have looked at JRiver. It is certainly full featured but on first view I found it complex.  I should look at that again.

Finally, I hear that CATraxx is very good.

Thanks again everyone!
-=Paul=-

 
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