![]() ![]() If I have to, however, I can live without this so long as the basic music playing functionality is good and the music library functionality meet my needs. Optionally, too, because I inhabit almost exclusively the world of classical music where we talk of composers and compositions, I'd ideally like the player to use 'classical music language': players that talk 'album artists', 'songs' and 'playlists' are of less use to me than ones that know to talk of 'composers', 'works' and so on. ![]() A player that forces me to click through a lot of things before answering the latest spontaneous brain-wave I've just had is of limited to use me, in other words. I may want to find all music that I own that's a passacaglia, for example. A player that sorts music by the year it was recorded, to take another example, is perhaps useful to people who listen to the pop music of the 1970s - 1990s, but it's decided un-useful to someone who chooses which Bach cantata to play by its BWV number (i.e., the composition's formal title)! So: sensible grouping, sensible filtering, sensible sorting.Ī good search function is also important for working with a large music collection. I don't choose to listen to a piece of music by the key it's written in, for example, so a music library that has a tab which sorts music by its key is useless to me (unless it also has tabs which sort by composer and genre equally well). The grouping and sorting functions a music library function has must therefore be rational, logical and sensible. When you have tens of thousands of pieces of music to choose from, it's vital that you can pick a composer, or a named piece of music, at will, quickly and efficiently. That means, when you have one track on a CD run immediately into another, the music player software must be able to handle that without introducing a gap, pause, click or other interruption.Īs well as playing my music well, however, it's important to me that my music "player" also acts as a supremely competent music library or organiser. In similar vein, it's critical that a music player must be able to do proper 'gapless playback'. It's important, for example, that it doesn't mess with the music signal in any significant way: what comes out of the speakers must be, close enough, what the digital music file contained, with nothing added or taken away by the software doing the playing of that file. What do I look for in a digital, PC-based music player? Well, for starters: it needs to be free of charge, as I'm not paying for the privilege of listening to my own music! It also needs to run on Windows 10, as that's my desktop operating system of choice these days.īut beyond being free and working on my PC correctly, I'm looking for a player that plays music well. ![]()
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