Are you sick of audio players that think they know how to organize your music for you? Do other media libraries choke and die after a mere 10,000 songs? Do you often find yourself thinking Boy, I wish I could grep my music? Or are you just looking for something that can tag your audio files?
Quod Libet is an industrial-strength music player and tagger. One of the key features that draws me to it is that it allows me to put music in multiple genres and to assign different rôles to people while being able to filter and queue music in a sensible manner. For classical music, this is great — many CDs are tagged by FreeDB using the orchestra, with the composer in the title. I can put the orchestra, conductor, celebrity performer and composer in the tags and filter on whichever I fancy. I can put music in genres based on time period and style. It is possible to make playlists, but I usually just create a new genre. The only problem is that adding so much metadata locks me in a bit — I’ve not found another media player willing to cope with it all (but then, I’m not looking very hard).
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