musikCube - next big mp3 player/organizer

vivrantpig · May 11th, 2005

Its pretty new but still its amazing. its like itunes but 50 times faster and without all the clutter. amazing program. try it out lemme kno wat u guys think

its become my favorite mp3 player.

http://www.musikcube.com

Noxious Ninja · May 12th, 2005

If it can import my iTunes library, and if it has equivalents to Party Shuffle and smart playlists, I'll gladly switch.

I'll download it and see.

vivrantpig · May 12th, 2005

it has smart playlists but im not sure what party shuffle means. but the program is great right now and its still its early stages of development. i cant wait to see what new features will be added to the next release.

Noxious Ninja · May 12th, 2005

Party Shuffle is basically enhanced random play.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html
http://www.ipodlounge.com/index.php/...fle-in-itunes/

Coolsvilleman · May 12th, 2005

winamp people WINAMP these programs are aweful compared to plugin based programs such as winamp. it can play like 3 maybe 4 different formats wav, ogg, mp3 while my winamp can play 20+ not to mention customizability, visualition, remote control, you name it

D.D. · May 12th, 2005

i jsut went from winamp to foobar >_>

WindHydra · May 12th, 2005

I still don't know why it's better than WMP. The only answer I got was "it's not M$"

XxCrashxX · May 12th, 2005

yeah winamp takes to long to start up for me compared to wmp10
and to much processor as well
just an opinion though

D.D. · May 12th, 2005

wmp10 only starts faster because it gets prefetched by default i think....

in my opinion, foobar is better cuz : less resource usage, more customization, and faster startup.

Noxious Ninja · May 12th, 2005

Well, I see it can't open my iTunes library because it doesn't support AAC. It does support FLAC, though, and I have most of my music ripped in FLAC right now. I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth the pain of switching for. :P

Jldnr77 · May 12th, 2005

I still say musicmatch kicks everyone's but....except for maybe WMP....winamp sucks if you have a huge library....

vivrantpig · May 12th, 2005

winamp is fine.. but its library for organizing your music files is complete garbage. and winamp uses 6 times more recources than musikcube does on my comp. and again, musikcube is still developing. so its only going to get better from here.

Noxious Ninja · May 13th, 2005

Still iTunes for me. It's really too bad musikCube isn't being developed as a Foobar interface plugin, then it would kick ass.

**Kane** · May 14th, 2005

Winamp uses less than 15Mb total (including VM) on my machine. It's not like it's a resource hog. It's a great nice looking simple player. I've tried switching to innumerable players in the past, but nothing can replace Winamp for me. I don't want the app to have a library of every music file I have with it's tag. I just put all my music in one playlist. If your directory structure is well maintained it works fine.
I really don't see the point in these features I don't use.

vivrantpig · May 15th, 2005

^^ thats true. my music folder is actually really well organized but i just like the way you can browse through them in the musikcube library. i find it a lot easier than going thru folders and having to press the back button every time.

**Kane** · May 15th, 2005

I just add them all to the playlist, and then if I want to listen to a certain artist, I pless CTRL+ALT+D to bring up the jump dialig, set the track I want to start listening from and then CTRL+ALT+S to toggle shuffle off

Melly · May 15th, 2005

Oooo, I'll have to try this. I love the ease and organization in iTunes, plus being able to edit my tags right then and there through iTunes. This looks lovely though, can't wait til it finishes downloading!

G-Pitts · May 17th, 2005

There is another good player/organizer, wxmusik. I use this and amarok(the best software of its kind in linux now, too bad it didn't available for windows) in linux and I absolutely love it. wxMusik have linux and windows support so you should give it a try. It still in its early development phase so there are still a few small bugs in it but nothing too serious.

vivrantpig · May 17th, 2005

musikcube is basically an updated version of wxmusik. apparently one of the ppl that worked on wx moved on from that project and started musikcube. i dont even kno if mx is still being worked on or not.

G-Pitts · May 18th, 2005

I never realized that

It still being work on but they still didn't want to make any official release (still adding feature and fixing bugs). Maybe I should give musikcube a try to see if it suit my need. Too bad it didn't available on linux.

May 12th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	If it can import my iTunes library, and if it has equivalents to Party Shuffle and smart playlists, I'll gladly switch. I'll download it and see. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 Last edited by The Khan Artist; May 12th, 2005 at 02:03.

May 12th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
vivrantpig (>^_^)> KIRBY Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,609	it has smart playlists but im not sure what party shuffle means. but the program is great right now and its still its early stages of development. i cant wait to see what new features will be added to the next release. __________________ "...we stand strong, even in time of crisis, when our man passed on, we still marched on, Dignified, walkin with our heads up high, Soldiers until the day that we die..." -D.I.T.C "Stand Stong"

May 12th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	Party Shuffle is basically enhanced random play. http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html http://www.ipodlounge.com/index.php/...fle-in-itunes/ __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

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Coolsvilleman Emulation to the max! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,411	winamp people WINAMP these programs are aweful compared to plugin based programs such as winamp. it can play like 3 maybe 4 different formats wav, ogg, mp3 while my winamp can play 20+ not to mention customizability, visualition, remote control, you name it __________________ Q6600 Core 2 Quad \|\| Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme HD \|\| e-VGA 8800GTX \|\| 4096mb 4-4-4-12-2T Dual-Channel RAM \|\| MSI P6N Diamond \|\| 2x 320GB Hardrive \|\| 5.1 Speakers \|\| Remote control \|\| 8x USB 2.0 \|\| DVD/CD ±RW Drive \|\| 1x IEEE1394 www.coolsvilleman.homedns.org Normally down. E-mail me for a DVD @ coolsvilleman@gmail.com

May 12th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,575	i jsut went from winamp to foobar >_> __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

May 12th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
WindHydra Wind, Life, Eternity Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: El Monte Posts: 1,331	I still don't know why it's better than WMP. The only answer I got was "it's not M$" __________________ My deviantArt :bounce: We ran like the wind, under the cerulean skies...

May 12th, 2005	#8 (permalink)
XxCrashxX Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 398	yeah winamp takes to long to start up for me compared to wmp10 and to much processor as well just an opinion though __________________

May 12th, 2005	#9 (permalink)
D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,575	wmp10 only starts faster because it gets prefetched by default i think.... in my opinion, foobar is better cuz : less resource usage, more customization, and faster startup. __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

May 12th, 2005	#10 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	Well, I see it can't open my iTunes library because it doesn't support AAC. It does support FLAC, though, and I have most of my music ripped in FLAC right now. I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth the pain of switching for. :P __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

May 12th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Jldnr77 Emulation Junkie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 731	I still say musicmatch kicks everyone's but....except for maybe WMP....winamp sucks if you have a huge library.... __________________ Current Specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester/ 2 GB Corsair PC3200 Ram / DVD-RW DL Light Scribe / Lite-On SOHW-832S DVD+-RW DL / 200 Gig Samsung HD / 250 Gig Maxtor HD / Nvidia GeForce 7600GT 256 MB PCI-E / Creative SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS Bruce Almighty: How do you make someone love you without affecting free will? God: Good Question. If you find the answer to that, let me know.

May 12th, 2005	#12 (permalink)
vivrantpig (>^_^)> KIRBY Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,609	winamp is fine.. but its library for organizing your music files is complete garbage. and winamp uses 6 times more recources than musikcube does on my comp. and again, musikcube is still developing. so its only going to get better from here. __________________ "...we stand strong, even in time of crisis, when our man passed on, we still marched on, Dignified, walkin with our heads up high, Soldiers until the day that we die..." -D.I.T.C "Stand Stong"

May 13th, 2005	#13 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	Still iTunes for me. It's really too bad musikCube isn't being developed as a Foobar interface plugin, then it would kick ass. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

May 14th, 2005	#14 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Winamp uses less than 15Mb total (including VM) on my machine. It's not like it's a resource hog. It's a great nice looking simple player. I've tried switching to innumerable players in the past, but nothing can replace Winamp for me. I don't want the app to have a library of every music file I have with it's tag. I just put all my music in one playlist. If your directory structure is well maintained it works fine. I really don't see the point in these features I don't use. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 15th, 2005	#15 (permalink)
vivrantpig (>^_^)> KIRBY Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,609	^^ thats true. my music folder is actually really well organized but i just like the way you can browse through them in the musikcube library. i find it a lot easier than going thru folders and having to press the back button every time. __________________ "...we stand strong, even in time of crisis, when our man passed on, we still marched on, Dignified, walkin with our heads up high, Soldiers until the day that we die..." -D.I.T.C "Stand Stong"

May 15th, 2005	#16 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I just add them all to the playlist, and then if I want to listen to a certain artist, I pless CTRL+ALT+D to bring up the jump dialig, set the track I want to start listening from and then CTRL+ALT+S to toggle shuffle off __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 15th, 2005	#17 (permalink)
Melly Oh bother! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA Posts: 99	Oooo, I'll have to try this. I love the ease and organization in iTunes, plus being able to edit my tags right then and there through iTunes. This looks lovely though, can't wait til it finishes downloading! __________________ Opera ※ Opera Wiki ※ Optimize XP ※ Proxomitron ※ Gnome

May 17th, 2005	#18 (permalink)
G-Pitts Whats Up Doc! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Land Below The Wind, Malaysia Posts: 1,232	There is another good player/organizer, wxmusik. I use this and amarok(the best software of its kind in linux now, too bad it didn't available for windows) in linux and I absolutely love it. wxMusik have linux and windows support so you should give it a try. It still in its early development phase so there are still a few small bugs in it but nothing too serious. __________________ Kar-T-Ney + AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (2.25 ghz) + 4096 MB DDR2 + Geforce 7600GT 256 MB DDR3 + Realtek HD Audio + WinXP Pro SP2

May 17th, 2005	#19 (permalink)
vivrantpig (>^_^)> KIRBY Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,609	musikcube is basically an updated version of wxmusik. apparently one of the ppl that worked on wx moved on from that project and started musikcube. i dont even kno if mx is still being worked on or not. __________________ "...we stand strong, even in time of crisis, when our man passed on, we still marched on, Dignified, walkin with our heads up high, Soldiers until the day that we die..." -D.I.T.C "Stand Stong"

May 18th, 2005	#20 (permalink)
G-Pitts Whats Up Doc! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Land Below The Wind, Malaysia Posts: 1,232	I never realized that It still being work on but they still didn't want to make any official release (still adding feature and fixing bugs). Maybe I should give musikcube a try to see if it suit my need. Too bad it didn't available on linux. __________________ Kar-T-Ney + AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (2.25 ghz) + 4096 MB DDR2 + Geforce 7600GT 256 MB DDR3 + Realtek HD Audio + WinXP Pro SP2

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