Can't find the "right" player

[CDMP3PlayerFan]

Originally Posted by Muka

Reading through this again just brought back horrible memories of trying to get a friend's Sony NW-A1000 ATRAC Walkman loaded with music via SonicStage and Connect. I guess some things never change.

Sony has gotten rid of the need to use specific software with its players, rather you have many options. This includes Windows Media Player, MediaMonkey, Content Transfer (which works separately and also works with iTunes), Media Go, and drag-and-drop.

I use MediaMonkey (MM) with my player and it works fairly well with both the player and with my music. Returning to the topic of this thread, it works well with podcasts. As I mentioned above, I use the genre tag to identify my podcasts, rather than putting them in their own folder, and it works perfectly.

As far as organizing the files on your player, it is possible to configure MM to arrange the files on your computer and on your player the way you want, including putting podcasts in their own folder on your player. For example, I have my music library arranged in folders as follows: <The First Letter of the Name of the Album Artist> / <Album Artist> / <Album> / <Song's Name>.

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[Muka]

Originally Posted by The DarkSide

Not to derail the thread, but the Zunes do podcasts fantastically, provided you can deal w/the Zune software. On the plus side, the Zune software is pretty damn good at podcast management (plus the Zunes do video podcasts perfectly as well as audio).

The Zune looks like it could do everything I need very well. Gapless, good sound, good podcast support etc. Only thing is, it's not available here in the UK yet. I believe Microsoft may release it here before the year is out, I sure hope they do.

[gebal]

yep, its a fact that they've promised to release the HD here, and possibly the zune 8. Although you can get zunes at zune things, for maybe a tenner more than the relative ipod