I am about to convert my music collection from CD to a master lossless format probably Flac, then convert selected tracks to m4a and or mp3 depending on the player I want to use.

I really want to centralize the management of my music and wonder if anyone can recommend good music library software which will take all 3 audio formats.

Here's the challenge: It must be able to work over my network sometimes by more than one user at the same time and be able to copy / export selected songs (not just the text files) to another folder.

Suggestions appreciated.

Hi richb,

take a look at MediaMonkey.

It's a very powerful library and the standard edition is freeware. Maybe it's what you're looking for.

Greetings

Hi and thanks for such a quick reply,

Have been monkeying around with this for a couple of hours now and as you say it is powerful with many good features, I also looked online and tried a couple of others such as mp3 collector and Wensoft, again both have good features,

I guess the best comments will be from experienced users
Anyone else got a favorite music library software?

Well, for almost two years now I've been using Foobar2000. It's true I don't do on-the-fly encoding for a mobile media player (because I don't have one), but it's quick in tagging, moving, renaming, searching, categorizing.

Before that I've been using "The Godfather". One of its big advantages is that its music database is an MS Access .mdb file, where you can do some custom development. I've used it a lot when I was filtering out the duplicates out of my collection (based on the MD5 checksum of the music data itself, not including the tags). The bad thing is, its implementation of ID3v2 is not really compatible with that of Foobar2000.