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Born-Again dbpowerAmper
I've returned to DBpowerAmp Music Player after months of MusicMatch, iTunes and Winamp 2.x (3 is too bulky.) Each of these other players has certain unique features that would like to see in the PowerAmp Player.
First off, and this isn't a big deal at all, but it's a nice feature; displaying album artwork, so that when a song is playing it will show the album cover that the song is from. Musicmatch will automatically look for folder.jpg or folder.gif in the album folder, which is also the file that WinXp will use to display the folder as when thumbnail view enabled. Again this isn't a big deal, but it's nice.
Musicmatch also has a great tag-editor built in, which was the main reason I started using it over PowerAmp. I'd like to be able to re-tag all my files based on the filename. So if i have a file named: 04-cannibal_ox-ridiculoid-mob.mp3
I want to retag it based on tracknumber-artist-song-garbage (since mob is who ripped it.) It would also need to convert underscores to spaces. Of course not all songs share a uniform filename structure, so this would have to be customizable, something like this:
[artist][seperator][trackname]
[track#][seperator][artist][seperator][trackname][seperator][garbage]
I can explain this better if this isn't clear enough, i know it's a bit vague.
Basically, I'd like to be able to right-click a file or group of files, choose re-tag based on filename, then choose from a selection of previously used selections, like the ones mentioned above. And also have the option to create a new style. Similar to the Arrange files command, only reversed?
The thing i really like about iTunes is the Smart-playlist feature. For those who don't know, you can make playlists that are constantly updated based on certain parameters you select. I mainly use it to make playlists of songs that I've just added to my collection. So i set up the playlist to only play songs where the "date added" is less then "2 weeks ago", or "date added" is less than "1 month ago" whatever, and then save the playlist as "New - 2 weeks" or "New for the month." I suggest taking a look at this feature for yourself to fully understand the brilliance of it.
I think thats about it for now, other things could use some tweaking, like the random feature, but i realize that this is very difficult to do well. Maybe have a random option to not play any songs from the same album or artist more than once until all artists or albums have been cycled, but again, i don't know a thing about programming so I don't know the level of difficulty involved in this. The crossfade could use some tweaking as well, have one song fade out and the next come in at full volume, or fade in faster than the previous song fades out. I could go on and on about the perfect cross-fade option in great detail, but for now these 2 options would be nice. Again, no big whoop.
I'll end this post by stating that dbpowerAmp Player is amazing in it's current state, and I can't thank Spoon enough for taking the time to listen to users and implement their suggestions as best he can. Thanks again Spoon. I'd gladly donate to your cause, how can i help?
easySpeak
born-again dbpowerAmper
First off, and this isn't a big deal at all, but it's a nice feature; displaying album artwork, so that when a song is playing it will show the album cover that the song is from. Musicmatch will automatically look for folder.jpg or folder.gif in the album folder, which is also the file that WinXp will use to display the folder as when thumbnail view enabled. Again this isn't a big deal, but it's nice.
Musicmatch also has a great tag-editor built in, which was the main reason I started using it over PowerAmp. I'd like to be able to re-tag all my files based on the filename. So if i have a file named: 04-cannibal_ox-ridiculoid-mob.mp3
I want to retag it based on tracknumber-artist-song-garbage (since mob is who ripped it.) It would also need to convert underscores to spaces. Of course not all songs share a uniform filename structure, so this would have to be customizable, something like this:
[artist][seperator][trackname]
[track#][seperator][artist][seperator][trackname][seperator][garbage]
I can explain this better if this isn't clear enough, i know it's a bit vague.
Basically, I'd like to be able to right-click a file or group of files, choose re-tag based on filename, then choose from a selection of previously used selections, like the ones mentioned above. And also have the option to create a new style. Similar to the Arrange files command, only reversed?
The thing i really like about iTunes is the Smart-playlist feature. For those who don't know, you can make playlists that are constantly updated based on certain parameters you select. I mainly use it to make playlists of songs that I've just added to my collection. So i set up the playlist to only play songs where the "date added" is less then "2 weeks ago", or "date added" is less than "1 month ago" whatever, and then save the playlist as "New - 2 weeks" or "New for the month." I suggest taking a look at this feature for yourself to fully understand the brilliance of it.
I think thats about it for now, other things could use some tweaking, like the random feature, but i realize that this is very difficult to do well. Maybe have a random option to not play any songs from the same album or artist more than once until all artists or albums have been cycled, but again, i don't know a thing about programming so I don't know the level of difficulty involved in this. The crossfade could use some tweaking as well, have one song fade out and the next come in at full volume, or fade in faster than the previous song fades out. I could go on and on about the perfect cross-fade option in great detail, but for now these 2 options would be nice. Again, no big whoop.
I'll end this post by stating that dbpowerAmp Player is amazing in it's current state, and I can't thank Spoon enough for taking the time to listen to users and implement their suggestions as best he can. Thanks again Spoon. I'd gladly donate to your cause, how can i help?
easySpeak
born-again dbpowerAmper
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