Sick of iTunes? Let's create an everyday musicplayer/manager for DJs!

[Afterhour Ali]

Its also for everyday-listening and rearranging your file-names and locations.

Most people don't seem to care where their files are stored but I like my system clean. Even if my library in TPro and Serato was broken I could still find most tracks.

[amidoinitrite]

Smart playlists that automatically update in Traktor. Keep the star ratings consistent across both no matter which one the ratings are changed in. Ability to edit ALL of the tags in Traktor and build the aforementioned smart playlist off those. What about the ability to load into a deck from the megasuperawseom musicplayer?

this.. make a way to keep both synced.. so when one changes the other does as well.

idk why any one would need to load to deck from the media player lol

BUT I guess you could make some kind of external traktor browser..
make it act similar to iTunes.

Also custom consolidation would be awesome..
so if I wanted to store tracks like:
genre/track... instead of iTunes BS artists/album/track

[safefire]

When I'm not on Traktor, I usually use Foobar to play tunes. More often than not, I end up opening Traktor anyway, cause I get that itch

Foobar supports FLAC, has a graphical EQ, all sorts of playlists, and has a ton of plugins. I saw a thread a while back on their forum where some guy set up dual playlists and some sort of functioning crossfader, even.

It has Kernal playback of audio, too

[amidoinitrite]

When I'm not on Traktor, I usually use Foobar to play tunes. More often than not, I end up opening Traktor anyway, cause I get that itch

Foobar supports FLAC, has a graphical EQ, all sorts of playlists, and has a ton of plugins. I saw a thread a while back on their forum where some guy set up dual playlists and some sort of functioning crossfader, even.

It has Kernal playback of audio, too

Interesting.. does it properly write id3 tags, and does traktor recognize the changes?

also it appears its PC only.

[JonathanBlake]

Personally I hate itunes, getting an android phone allowed me to ditch itunes altogether. Never looked back. Good riddance.

Get Seperation Anxiety at the thought, but SO want to go that route F101. iTunes is unashamedly focussing on iPad/iPhone/iPod/iCloud integration. ALL the new updates are for these functions. Stopped updating after v10.

[MuzicFreq]

Media Monkey for those so inclined
You can sync an iPod with it.

[Grifff]

Personally I hate itunes, getting an android phone allowed me to ditch itunes altogether. Never looked back. Good riddance.

What do you use instead of iTunes now? The only reason I use it is because I used to use it to sync my ipod when I had one many moons ago. I haven't found a replacement that I'm happy with

(I haven't really looked far though)

[ToOntown]

Media Monkey for those so inclined
You can sync an iPod with it.

I used to use that but I like how I can access my iTunes library in Traktor.

One thing I wish iTunes had was a way to customize filenames and folder structure. Media Monkey and MusicMatch Jukebox had that.

[threadjack]

itunes stopped rewriting iD3 tags for me ever since i upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1...

so updating will fix this? auto-tagging pisses me off so much. i use Mixed In Key and i re-tag pretty much all of my music. but then when i launch it in iTunes, many of them revert back to the original tag. that ever happen to anyone else?

[Nicky H]

I wrote my own in PHP with a flash mp3 player - runs on localhost

Allows me to create playlists, move files, edit tags etc

Would be easy enough to create a flash exe / dmg for the front-end - if I had the time that is, plus it would require people to install mySQL and PHP and a web server

So not that user friendly really ...

[Afterhour Ali]

I wrote my own in PHP with a flash mp3 player - runs on localhost

Allows me to create playlists, move files, edit tags etc

Would be easy enough to create a flash exe / dmg for the front-end - if I had the time that is, plus it would require people to install mySQL and PHP and a web server

So not that user friendly really ...

That sounds as much user-friendly as the last Traktor Scrobbler was on Mac where you had to install Mono and do some bash-magic before it worked

I will look into MediaMonkey. Maybe it offers already similar to what I'm trying to achieve.

For those using Traktor and Serato a central player would be awesome though.