Best music playing software for LARGE mp3 collections.

I use foobar, IMO is really good.

Winamp is also the most used, but i don't like too much.

Give a shot to iTunes. As alternative I will agree to saint19 - foobar is pretty good!

You can snoop around here, I'm presently using OtsAV DJ Pro, but its actually DJ software and I also use it personally all the time keeping my database straight, there is a free version but its seriously limited.

Obviously the Pro version is not free software and probably more than you're looking for, it will also convert your MP3s to the OTs format for more enhanced playback or play them back unconverted as MP3s.

If you do decide to have them converted they can be converted back to MP3, but so far I've had no reason to do that, the OTs format conversion basically optimizes each MP3 and makes for a more even playback experience.

As a DJ you need that so you don't have to constantly juggle volume for different recording levels of MP3s however as I already said you do not have to convert your MP3s anyway.

Its also video playback.

Anyhow its probaby more than you're looking for anyway, but worth every penny to me.

Check it out.

http://www.otsav.com/

Also the beatmix technology is really cool for non-stop playback, each song merges to the next for a really cool experience.

My wife uses Winamp, she had to go to that when MMJB got Yahoo'd, however I asked her if she'd recommend it to others and she said no, I don't really know her reasons why she is disappointed with it, I haven't really used it myself.

My music database is much larger than hers, she is basically a newer country music fan, and I have to cover the whole spectrum of music.

She says it not as user friendly as MMJB was, but she had years to learn MMJB and as you well know it takes time to familiarize yourself with new software, when I installed it for her my first impressions of it were really good.

I liked the interface and everything I had discovered in my short use of it, I also liked the fact Milkdrop was incorporated into it, I think once she gets more familiar with it she'll like it.

I passed that info on to her Thanks.

The problem with plugins is they can make the program as a whole get a bit unstable. When dealing with 100GB+, this is not a good thing. My problem with MM is that it updates the database EVERY time you load it now. Worse, not everything seems to get included. When searching for a song, it might not come up. If however you use the browse feature, you can find it still sitting on the drive. This is not a drive or computer issue, it happens on both mine and my wifes machine.

From what I've seen of Winamp, it won't do what we want. (easily) We like the database type programs that allow us to search by not only song title, but artist, album, year, etc. Wamp won't do this, not even with the lyrics plug in. DJ software is probably a bit much. I assume the pro version costs major $$$? I can take a look at songbird, I hadn't heard of it until now.