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<blockquote data-quote="rsbrux" data-source="post: 210064" data-attributes="member: 49539">Thanks for the tip, but <a href="http://www.mediamonkey.com/mediamonkey_de.htm" target="_blank">MediaMonkey </a>seems like a lot more than I need.&nbsp; It appears to be a full-featured replacement for WMP.&nbsp; In particular, it maintains its own DB, something I already didn't like about WMP.&nbsp; To its credit though, it seems much cleaner and more economical of resources than WMP.&nbsp; One advantage of the Windows MC/WMP combination was that they at least used the same DB.&nbsp; Now that I've opted for MP in place of (the unusable) WMC), I don't want an additional DB if I can avoid it.Even <a href="http://www.winamp.com/player" target="_blank">Winamp</a>, which used to be a simple, small-footprint player seems to be succumbing to feature creep in the latest version (5.5).&nbsp; Its setup program is almost twice as big as MediaMonkey's!I'm now looking at <a href="http://www.foobar2000.org/" target="_blank">foobar2000</a>, which is the smallest freeware/shareware contender I've found so far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rsbrux, post: 210064, member: 49539"] Thanks for the tip, but [URL="http://www.mediamonkey.com/mediamonkey_de.htm"]MediaMonkey [/URL]seems like a lot more than I need. It appears to be a full-featured replacement for WMP. In particular, it maintains its own DB, something I already didn't like about WMP. To its credit though, it seems much cleaner and more economical of resources than WMP. One advantage of the Windows MC/WMP combination was that they at least used the same DB. Now that I've opted for MP in place of (the unusable) WMC), I don't want an additional DB if I can avoid it. Even [URL="http://www.winamp.com/player"]Winamp[/URL], which used to be a simple, small-footprint player seems to be succumbing to feature creep in the latest version (5.5). Its setup program is almost twice as big as MediaMonkey's! I'm now looking at [URL="http://www.foobar2000.org/"]foobar2000[/URL], which is the smallest freeware/shareware contender I've found so far. [/QUOTE]

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