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commandf · Feb 13, 2001, 12:49 PM

Just curious...

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Cipher13 · Feb 14, 2001, 04:27 AM

Audion 1.5 - best there is.
I have version 2.0... and SoundJam, but don't like either.
1.5 kicks ass.

Cipher13

VRL · Feb 14, 2001, 05:56 AM

SoundJam 2.5.2 works for me. Going to give Audion a try, though. Have heard many good things about it.

poocat · Feb 14, 2001, 02:26 PM

audion 2.1
cipher's right, 1.5 was great... but having an encoder & everything... can't beat that.

i use itunes occasionally, mostly to organize my mp3's in one fell swoop.
waiting for an update on that, see what happens to it around march...

soundapp too, occasionally.
also used to use mplay.
then...

well, audion looks nicer.

$0.02

poocat.

pdot · Feb 14, 2001, 04:53 PM

I use the free version of soundjam. I was using iTunes when it came out, but it didn't do background processing as well. My mp3's kept skipping when i loaded programs or did anyting obscurely processor intensive.

penginkun · Feb 15, 2001, 03:04 AM

Audion 1.5. 2.0 has some nice features, but is too complex for my tastes. iTunes is great for ripping and encoding, but is not as simple and direct and easy to use as Audion 1.5 for daily use. SoundJam (IMNSHO) is better than iTunes, but iTunes is FREE whereas SoundJam is not, so...

Feb 15, 2001, 06:00 AM

I like SoundJam at home for general use and encoding, but I use MacAMP 2.0 at work where I mostly listen to MP3 streaming radio. I tested them all and most player shave a tendency to stutter a bit in the background when performing a task in another application. MacAMP seems to handle this much better and rarely stutters. I have to be using a fairly heft Photoshop filter/operation to get MacAMP to stutter. And yes I have tried upping the stream cache in all the others and they still stutter. I would prefer to use Audion but it stutters too.

jamesbondsv · Feb 15, 2001, 07:19 AM

iTunes. It is great and I love the Visualizer feature. You can waste a lot of your life watching the cool fractals just beat along to the music.

nigeljedi · Feb 15, 2001, 08:26 AM

I've been using iTunes since it came out, but I've heard a lot about this Audion program. Who makes it, and how much does it cost?

Feb 15, 2001, 10:06 AM

Audion 2.1, i love it, everything in a neat package. itoons is amusing, but since i already bought audion, i don't feel like using it, b/c i'm a afraid i might like it better.

Audion can be found at http://www.panic.com

bleen · Feb 15, 2001, 12:15 PM

I've been using iTunes for a while. Yeah it will give a skip every once in a while, I can't wait for the OS X version w/ No skipping.

I think it has a problem with VBR (Variable Bit Rate) becasue some songs that were encoded with that won't finish the song before moving on to the next song, though if I scroll to the end manually the end of the song is there.

noliv · Feb 15, 2001, 12:48 PM

Audion 1.5

I can't use anything else!

noliv

scaught · Feb 15, 2001, 01:53 PM

i was checking out audion over at their website, it wont burn a CD straight from the program will it? i have a 3rd party burner and itunes wont do it either (for now), but the thing i like about audion alot is you can go in and edit the mp3's.

scott

poocat · Feb 16, 2001, 10:04 AM

audion doesn't burn cds.
it does rip to mp3, tho, which is sweet.

i'll join you among the masses waiting to see how itunes does supporting external cd-rw's.
keeping my fingers crossed.

in terms of skipping, audion skips a lot less than itunes for me...
dunno what the difference is.
another reason to stick w/ audion.

poocat.

commandf · Feb 16, 2001, 01:18 PM

well, personally I like iTunes. I've used SoundJam, Audio and others, but I like the way iTunes arranges it's playlists. I don't need a ton of skins, plug-ins, etc... so the fact that iTunes doesn't have any of these is fine for me. I like the simplicity of the program. It functions the way I would want an MP3 player to do. I burn a lot of CDs from MP3 files, so I don't keep them on my machine for a long time, and I can drag my songs from my playlist directly to Toast and burn away. And soon, I'll be able to burn from iTunes right away...also, it might have a tight integration with OS X, which might be another plus.

caifara · Feb 16, 2001, 01:34 PM

iTunes, it's free!
used to use MPlay (made even two skins for it) and Soundjam, but I don't like those really. They skip more than iTunes does!

caifara

Archangel · Feb 16, 2001, 09:46 PM

iTunes. Free-ness. Can't beat it.

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DocWest · Feb 17, 2001, 05:19 AM

SoundJam for me.

as2 · Feb 22, 2001, 12:55 PM

I use iTunes to play most mp3's, but I also use my iMac as an alarm clock, so I use SoundJam to play a selected playlist in the morning.

If iTunes had an alarm facility I wouldn't bother with anything else.

Adam

Chuck_star · Feb 22, 2001, 02:49 PM

Audion for electronic music
SJ w realizer plugin for instrumental

It's been a long hard battle of ears but this is where I am now.

pdjr · Feb 22, 2001, 02:58 PM

As an Apple shareholder and convert, I try to use anything Apple. I recently deleted SoundJam 2.5.2 and Toast 4.1.2 and installed iTunes 1.0 and then updated to 1.1. Works for me. I hope the next version of DiscBurner supports externals, because I have a 100+ songlist I want to burn as MP3 files for my new MP3 aware car head unit.

suprz · Feb 22, 2001, 06:35 PM

i have both itunes, and MPLAY (free version) i like them both very much. especially the way i can tweak the mp3's base & treble etc with mplay.... (i wish itunes had that option)

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