I have been using Windows Media Player and like its features, but it is frustrating when it comes to certain things (it seems to have a mind of its own)

I rip a CD and WMP can't find the tracks' info on the internet, so it just gives these titles to the ripped songs - Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, etc. So I go and manually edit the tag information for these songs. It works well until I insert that same CD into the CD-ROM drive: at that point all the information that I entered gets erased and replaced with Track 1, Track 2, Track3, etc. Why is it behaving like this?

I have also tried Apple iTunes (because I downloaded a song from there), WinAmp, and Nero. And they are all pretty cool.

But by now I have a ton of files in WMA format. Nero and WinAmp understand WMA. But Nero does not seem to have the same library/playlist management features that WMP does.

Which way should I go?

 

i tunes is good
i use roxio

 

A lot of people like MusicMatch. I use Exact Audio Copy to rip and upsample; it uses all kinds of 'ID' tags. It's very good, but can be complicated to setup right.

 

What version of Nero are you running?

 

Roxio and Nero are bot excellent programs

 

i use nero... always been good to me

 

Nero Ultra version 6.3 here. I believe it's the latest version out.

 

nero

 

nero ultra edition

 

For $15 now, you can use Winamp5 to burn your compilations... it does a good job too.

 

I don't know if I'm allowed to post this but I have a key generator for WinampPrO. I tested out the burner and it works fairly well..but I'd rather stick to Nero.

 

dvd x copy for dvd's nero for cdr's

 

I like how Nero burns, but I don't see a way in Nero to organize and manage my library.

Windows Media Player is actually pretty good at library management and searching.

I have been trying MusicMatch and it is not bad, but for some reason it shows 0:00 for all my WMA tracks.

I think Winamp is giving me the same problem. Also with Winamp, I cannot change the order of songs in a playlist.