I’m looking for a music manager that does not do a lot, mostly as a replacement for Windows Explorer. There’s a lot of software out there that claims to be your best friend when it comes to music. It also wants to do almost everything for you: ID3 tagging, ripping a CD, browsing through your files, renaming them, moving them and oh yes, let’s not forget playing them! Well, that’s not how I roll.

Part perfectionism part habit I would describe my music tool-set as. I play everything with Winamp (there’s your habit) because I’ve used the program since 1997 and I know the plugins and hotkeys by heart. I repair ID3 data and rename files with Tag&Rename, and a sometimes a little help from Bulk Rename Utility. All info coming from the near-flawless music database of Discogs.

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