Windows 10 Media Storage/Player Options?

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dj_easy_wind
DJ Easy Wind on Sunday, April 8, 2018 – 03:42 pm

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(I posted this in Techie Talk originally, but the traffic there is pretty slow, so...)


MY (DELL) PC guru just updated my Windows 10 OS for me. That required dumping ALL my data (docs/photos/videos/music) into a new 2T HD and then wiping my old MS 10 OS clean and re-installing the newest Windows 10. This appears to have come as both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I effectively have a zippy fast like-new PC, with a shit ton of storage space (1T internally and 2T on an external HD). I am a now a recovering digital pack rat (have you ever seen my desktop?) I now want to be more discretionary about what I store on my PC, so as not to slow it down with hundreds of gigs of downloaded music, which I have always done in the past. The downside of all this is that I think it will be very time consuming to reload all my desired music into a decent player/storage program.

My guru swears by Winamp, though dated (or 'old school' as he calls it), it's by far his favorite music interface. I know I've posed this question here before and never did anything about it, but now I have an opportunity to start fresh with a better program than friggin' iTunes, which I disdain...So, hopefully I can get some useful suggestions from you techie whiz kids out there, and actually put the ideas to use this go round. I am opening up the floor to any music/data storage suggestions, especially concerning media playback/playlist creation options. Sorry if this is redundant from similar past posts, but I would really love to explore new options, since I am basically needing to start from scratch, loading my music into some kind of software...

I heard good things about Media Monkey, but I haven't checked it out yet...
 
So, what program(s) rock your world? GO!!!

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dj_easy_wind
DJ Easy Wind on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – 07:06 pm

Crickets?

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Bluelight
Odysseus on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – 08:44 pm

Thanks for this. It's informative.

Let us know what you go with and how it operates

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AMSaddler on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – 10:07 pm

I have been using the media interface on my smart TV recently and am in the process of connecting it with Google Home. The TV plays all major audio formats, DVD, streaming, etc. Once I get every set up right, I will only have to give a voice command and away I go.