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Music Match, WinAmp, Foobar200, Which softawre

For years Ive been using musicmatch to rip and play CDs. Recently bought a Cary 303/200 and am planning to use if for the D/A conv..
Recently downloaded EAC for ripping and winamp and foobar for playing. EAC has a great front end but I dont like foobars but suposed has best playback.
Anyone make some more suggestions to try out. Im looking ofr sound quailty and ease of use. I have approx 8,000 mp3s so i need one that can handle large libraries and sort them by artist(not directory).
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evilash
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Windows Media player 10....pretty good for organizing MP3's ...not bad sounding either...Microsoft has a Beta-release right now for WMP-10...good luck
bobp
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J River Media Center. with additional s/w you can control it via Pocket PC http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/
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quadophile
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Winamp is the best MP3 Player and EAC is the best ripper together with Lame encoder. LAME gives you good speed, best quality and huge amount of options and flexibility. This is a commandline utility you can setup for use with good quality ripper, such as Exact Audio Copy. The best method of creating MP3's is to use EAC and Lame together but only if the procedure is adopted as indicated in the link given below:

http://www.bestmp3guide.com/

Happy encoding and listening!
audioengr
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You can achieve better sound be eliminating the soundcard and replacing with a USB to S/PDIF interface. This will virtually eliminate the jitter caused by the S/PDIF cable and interfaces. It can also have a very stable clock such as a Superclock2 for outputting S/PDIF data. Beats any transport for lowest jitter.
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