non iTunes music player that allows me to do three specific things ...
March 14, 2015 2:04 PM Subscribe
After years of avoiding iTunes 11, a new laptop (Windows 8) has recently forced my hand. Needless, to say I'm unimpressed. More to the point, as a semi-pro-DJ who works from rather large playlists and loves working with shuffled playlists, I have some rather particular needs ...
Those needs:
1. I must be able to shuffle a playlist and SEE THAT PLAYLIST IN THE SHUFFLED ORDER
2. I must be able to create a new playlist from this shuffled list that maintains the order of the shuffled list (ie: doesn't revert to the original order)
3. I must be able to easily export my playlists as M3U and XML files
Worth noting. #1 and #2 are things I had no problems with pre-iTunes 11. #3 is something that iTunes 11 does do. I just need to make sure that my new player will as well.
I would be willing to pay a few bucks for the right solution. And again, my new laptop is Windows 8.
Thanks.
Those needs:
1. I must be able to shuffle a playlist and SEE THAT PLAYLIST IN THE SHUFFLED ORDER
2. I must be able to create a new playlist from this shuffled list that maintains the order of the shuffled list (ie: doesn't revert to the original order)
3. I must be able to easily export my playlists as M3U and XML files
Worth noting. #1 and #2 are things I had no problems with pre-iTunes 11. #3 is something that iTunes 11 does do. I just need to make sure that my new player will as well.
I would be willing to pay a few bucks for the right solution. And again, my new laptop is Windows 8.
Thanks.
MediaMonkey does this. The only thing I'm not sure of is xml export.
posted by irisclara at 10:07 PM on March 14, 2015
posted by irisclara at 10:07 PM on March 14, 2015
Best answer: +1 for Foobar2000. It's extremely lightweight and has bazillion playlist options.
posted by kschang at 12:28 AM on March 16, 2015
posted by kschang at 12:28 AM on March 16, 2015
Response by poster: okay, I've downloaded Foobar, got some playlists into it which are playing fine ... but I still can't seem to get what I want.
That is, I can shuffle the playing order, but I can't actually see this shuffled order. It just shows me the existing playlist. It plays shuffled, but doesn't show shuffled.
The same applies to random.
Any ideas?
posted by philip-random at 1:32 PM on March 16, 2015
That is, I can shuffle the playing order, but I can't actually see this shuffled order. It just shows me the existing playlist. It plays shuffled, but doesn't show shuffled.
The same applies to random.
Any ideas?
posted by philip-random at 1:32 PM on March 16, 2015
Response by poster: and I just found an answer here. Specifically:
Once You have all your songs dropped into the playlist
move the mouse to the menu bar at the top...
Edit>Sort
Sort by- If you can figure out how to do the formatting then you can make a custom sort string
The Presets are:
Randomize
Reverse
Sort by file path
Sort by Artist
Sort by Album
Sort by Track Number
Sort by Title
choose randomize.
posted by philip-random at 1:50 PM on March 16, 2015
Once You have all your songs dropped into the playlist
move the mouse to the menu bar at the top...
Edit>Sort
Sort by- If you can figure out how to do the formatting then you can make a custom sort string
The Presets are:
Randomize
Reverse
Sort by file path
Sort by Artist
Sort by Album
Sort by Track Number
Sort by Title
choose randomize.
posted by philip-random at 1:50 PM on March 16, 2015
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posted by Going To Maine at 2:23 PM on March 14, 2015