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What do you all use to play your PC based music collections? I usually have mine on random, but it will eventually play a file from an audio book, or some kids music or something... I realize I could make a playlist including the 1000s of tracks I want and excluding the 100s of tracks I don't... but they're all (or mostly) correctly genre tagged so I'm looking for something that can take 3 or 4 genres (or more!) as an autoplaylist as opposed to song-by-song playlist.

Oh, I'm using Zune currently, by the way.

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I use Itunes. It can do what you describe. Doubt you can use a zune with it, thought.

Scratch that, it looks like maybe you can use Itunes after all. Do a google search.

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foobar2000. No idea if it can do what you want, but I think it's great.

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foobar2000? Is that a once-futuristic exercise machine or energy bar?

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WMP because I'm used to it and the interface is relatively simple. Would like something better though.

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Moth3r said:


foobar2000. No idea if it can do what you want, but I think it's great.


Idem.

Otherwise I use a hi-fi.

Edit: Mp3's don't exist for me anymore btw.

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Usually I use VLC for mp3's and movies, but I'll also use foobar2000 or HaiHaiSoft Universal Player on the off chance that I have a format VLC won't play.

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1. How do you do that with iTunes?  I've had iTunes before and am pretty happy not having it.

2. So I ask because if iTunes can do it, it's probably similar to do with other software.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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Maybe I've misunderstood your objective.  I just make a smart playlist and set it to only include certain genres.

I know there are plenty of programs out there better than itunes, but it works fine for me and i'm too lazy to go looking for something better.

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You have inspired me to google it.  Looks like Zune does it too: http://gizmodo.com/215303/we-were-wrong-zune-does-support-smart-playlists.

 

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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There was an ipod update a few years back that screwed up smart playlists.  Apple refused to admit there was an issue and people were seriously pissed off (personally I *love* smart playlists).  Eventually it was fixed with the next update.