by phuocle » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:48 am
As most people have said so far, Songbird is not even at version one yet and there are some features missing, for example, tag editing. When you edit tags, it's only updating the Songbird database, but not the tags themselves which can be a real pain in the rear end.
Songbird also seems to require more resources to run and appears more "sluggish" to me when dealing with files on a networked drive, which is my situation.
Songbird does have some cool abilities, such as being able to extract from all web pages any music files on there and providing them as an easy to navigate playlist.
Songbird searches better since to me it appears that MM only searches in discrete tag fields... that is, if I search for "Led Zeppelin Stairway", I would not find the song I want since "Led Zeppelin" is in the artist field and "Stairway" is in the title field. If I search for "Stairway to Heaven" I would find it in MM... Songbird doesn't seem to have that problem. Maybe it's an option in MM but I haven't found it and would have expected it to search that way by default.
MM however does appear to have a better user interface in that I can navigate through my library with ease and even do some simple file management directly in MM without going through Windows Explorer for example.
I myself am in the process of finding the right piece of software to manage my vast music library and am evaluating MM to see if I should purchase the Gold version or go with another piece of software. I would need Gold because File Monitoring is something I definitely need... but so far MM seems faster and less resource intensive than Songbird and also seems more stable.
If only the MM developers would add a DAAP and/or UPnP server component to MM I would be instantly sold, even if the search improvement is off in the future.
As most people have said so far, Songbird is not even at version one yet and there are some features missing, for example, tag editing. When you edit tags, it's only updating the Songbird database, but not the tags themselves which can be a real pain in the rear end.
Songbird also seems to require more resources to run and appears more "sluggish" to me when dealing with files on a networked drive, which is my situation.
Songbird does have some cool abilities, such as being able to extract from all web pages any music files on there and providing them as an easy to navigate playlist.
Songbird searches better since to me it appears that MM only searches in discrete tag fields... that is, if I search for "Led Zeppelin Stairway", I would not find the song I want since "Led Zeppelin" is in the artist field and "Stairway" is in the title field. If I search for "Stairway to Heaven" I would find it in MM... Songbird doesn't seem to have that problem. Maybe it's an option in MM but I haven't found it and would have expected it to search that way by default.
MM however does appear to have a better user interface in that I can navigate through my library with ease and even do some simple file management directly in MM without going through Windows Explorer for example.
I myself am in the process of finding the right piece of software to manage my vast music library and am evaluating MM to see if I should purchase the Gold version or go with another piece of software. I would need Gold because File Monitoring is something I definitely need... but so far MM seems faster and less resource intensive than Songbird and also seems more stable.
If only the MM developers would add a DAAP and/or UPnP server component to MM I would be instantly sold, even if the search improvement is off in the future.