Hi Peter,
I have an RCA Lyra which I have been quite pleased with. Just couldn't justify the price of an i-pod. USB compatable. It has an internal memory but also takes SD (secure digital) cards so that you can expand your library. This way I can bring along the SD cards containing my favorite songs/artists and leave the remainder. I like this capability while others will not want to fuss with cards and want everything they own on the large internal memory as in i-pods. Personal choice.
The RCA Lyra comes with the software 'Music Match Juke Box' I love the ease, organization and other capabilities of the software but it has some bugs that need to be addressed. Seems to crash and get corrupted on me. So bad that I have removed it from my computer.
i-Tunes is a very popular software but I find it difficult to organize as it just gives me a list of songs with the artist. This creates a huge screen which has to be scrolled through when browsing your library. I was looking for software that organizes the music by artist. Clicking on artist opens the albums and clicking on albums opens the song list of that album. All this info collapses to give a clean managable screen when not being used. Any i-tune users have any suggestions on this?
Some applications such as 'Yahoo Jukebox' organize and play well but lack 'burning' and 'ripping' capabilities'
Others such as 'Exact Audio Copy' rip and burn but don't organize the library.
I'm looking for the "swiss army knife" of audio programs which can do it all yet "folds" up into a nice neet package.
So, the Lyra works well and seems to be reliable. It is also cheap enough that if it gets lost, stolen or damaged, I don't have to mortgage the house to get another.
Yuri
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