68rustang

I am willing to give up some quality but running a Windows program under Wine or similar is more trouble than it is worth. I initially tried that with MediaMonkey under Wine and it was nearly impossible to get MM to access the network shares. IMHO if going that route it would be better to run a complete virtual machine and install it there. I figured I would ask here since the audiophile market is full of niche products and maybe something exists that I haven't heard of or tried yet that will run on both easily.

What is available that will run on both OSX and Windows to organize and playback a music collection? iTunes obviously comes to mind but while I can use fluke to play *.flac files on the Mac there isn't anything comparable available for iTunes on a PC. I also hold the general opinion that iTunes sucks, bad. Songbird and Clementine... I lump them together because I have very limited experience with both of them. They run on both platforms. IIRC, network library support is limited. I currently use MediaMonkey on the PC and it works great, on the PC. It doesn't run under OSX, Multi-user network access is kind of "hackey." Any other suggestions?

What is the point of trying to maintain what amounts to two separate libraries? MediaMonkey will do on the fly file conversions based on player filetype compatibility. The computer doesn't even need to be all that fast. It is the closest you will be able to get to having one set of playlists for use on either the computer or the iDevice without going through iTunes. I have a large library that is a 50/50 split of *.mp3 and *.flac files and been using it for a while with great results.