Originally posted by Mez:

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Foobar is a player for audiophiles. It has tools and plug-ins for double blind testing transcoding etc. I don't use it often. Their forum has many true audio experts. If you really like WA you may not like MM. MM has a busy user interface vs WA's minimal interface. It is too busy for some persons. What MM does best is handling huge libraries, they have a great disk burn routine. The old itunes of 5 years back choked on 2K of tunes. MM back then thought that was nothing. Since then they have made the back end much more powerful. MM uses a SQL back end and is good for tens of thousands of tunes.

Even a moron can pretty much do even fairly complex burns. The next version V4 may have the third best ripper right behind dbpoweramp and EAC. It is written in VB and has a way to incorporate VB scripts as part of its own code. Users who are also programmers build these routines which can be incredibly sophisticated. This is an example of a mid way complex mod. You pick an artist then run this report. It builds a web page containing tunes that have been sold but you do not have in your library. There are links to where you can buy and usually listen to a sample of that tune. I have seen scripts that alter the way you sync your portable. Usually rating are pushed to your portable but you can have the portable push to MM. Obviously you can't have it both ways. I bet the mods/scripts count in the hundreds. Oh yes and on topic the out of the box auto sync routine has 4-6 tabs, I can't remember how many. If you sync a play list and you add/delete tunes from it, it will update your device the next time around. Sometime it does forget the first time around but usually by the second time it syncs up they will be the same. What do you want for a free version??? Even the paid for version is cheap. The free version only have the burning speed crippled.

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