iTunes in itself isn’t a bad media player or organizer, but the lack of FAST folder scanning and auto-updating really makes it unusable for a large collection of music.   MediaMonkey fixes ALL the short-comings of iTunes and then some. 

Since MediaMonkey bases it’s entire library on ID3 tags FIRST, changing filenames/folders/etc doesn’t affect the library at all.  Once you set the software to monitor a folder, it will scan/update itself upon startup.  This is VERY helpful as I have folders setup as sorted and unsorted.  My unsorted folder is for discs that I have not had time to create all the tags yet, but sometimes I want to listen to the song right away.  If I later change the folder in which it belongs to (to sorted) I don’t have to worry about breaking/not finding the songs on my player or even playlists!

Synching with the iPhone is quite simple as well.  You’ll still need to install iTunes on your computer for the drivers, but that’s it! Like in iTunes, all I do is synch my MediaMonkey playlists to my iPhone and it’ll always synch/update itself.  This is great as my playlists are always updated and updated.  Unlike iTunes, if the filename of the song changes/etc I don’t have to worry about iTunes removing the music off my iPhone.

Lastly, the speed of MediaMonkey is simply amazing.  It searches, organizes, caches searches so much quicker than iTunes that I’m not sure how I lived without it previously.  It seriously is the ultimate music media player for Windows!

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