Best way to handle big music collection?

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:13:54 +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm a long time Linux user myself (Debian mostly), and trying to help a
> singer and previous Windows user to use Ubuntu. He's happy with Ubuntu
> so far but handling his rather big music collection is really an
> important part of his computer usage, and I'm clearly at a loss on how
> to best deal with it.
> 
> I personally like to use the bare filesystem and simple tools as much as
> possible, at least as opposed to programs that tie you in or are buggy.
> But, at his scale and considering the issues I'm clearly not convinced
> anymore that this is a good approach.

As usual, I'd suggest Quod Libet, especially for large collections. It's 
very easy to use, yet very flexible; it lets you manage the collection 
exactly the way YOU want to.

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Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com