A bit of a question for you. I've got a PC running Windows 7, with a user account for both myself and my wife. However, we have a shared MP3 collection which we'd both like to have access to for managing on our respective devices. So far, so good. However, I have a WP7 and Hard-disk based player, with my wife having an Ipod. We're both limited by space (200gb+ collection, 32gb Windows Phone, 30gb Ipod), so would like to be able to pick and choose.
At present, what I've got is the MP3 library sitting in a set of folders by Artist\Album on our external hard drive. I rip CD's with WMP9, and use Zune to load this onto my phone. All fine and dandy, but my wife now wants to use her Ipod more often to load things on and off. She's not as technical as me, so I'd like to make it as straightforward as possible - I would set up Itunes for her, but I don't want it ruining my organisation like it did last time.
So I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas? Maybe I should just move into the mainstream with everyone else, and learn to love Itunes - for some reason I don't like it (Maybe the high memory footprint etc, I'm more of of a Winamp user) Would the best thing be to set up Itunes with a media library, point Zune at it too, and then Winamp? That would mean my Wife could use ITunes for her Ipod etc whilst I used zune/Winamp. What do people think? Any better alternatives? I'm all ears!
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A bit of a question for you. I've got a PC running Windows 7, with a user account for both myself and my wife. However, we have a shared MP3 collection which we'd both like to have access to for managing on our respective devices. So far, so good. However, I have a WP7 and Hard-disk based player, with my wife having an Ipod. We're both limited by space (200gb+ collection, 32gb Windows Phone, 30gb Ipod), so would like to be able to pick and choose.
At present, what I've got is the MP3 library sitting in a set of folders by Artist\Album on our external hard drive. I rip CD's with WMP9, and use Zune to load this onto my phone. All fine and dandy, but my wife now wants to use her Ipod more often to load things on and off. She's not as technical as me, so I'd like to make it as straightforward as possible - I would set up Itunes for her, but I don't want it ruining my organisation like it did last time.
So I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas? Maybe I should just move into the mainstream with everyone else, and learn to love Itunes - for some reason I don't like it (Maybe the high memory footprint etc, I'm more of of a Winamp user) Would the best thing be to set up Itunes with a media library, point Zune at it too, and then Winamp? That would mean my Wife could use ITunes for her Ipod etc whilst I used zune/Winamp. What do people think? Any better alternatives? I'm all ears!
Thanks,
Kit
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