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1. 
   Review - EmEditor Professional

   8.02 (Feb 22, 2009)

   This is a small wonder. I'm switching from vim to this after > 10 years on vim; if that's not a compliment, I don't know what is.
   The search highlight feature is indispensable. Configuring custom highlighting for any programming language is easy. With the project plugin and autocomplete, it does almost as much as an IDE for 1/10th of the memory. And it's the (only) viable option to operate with large files.

2. 
   Review - Spider

   2.3.9.5 (Jan 24, 2009)

   Well, feature-wise it's obviously not at the level of Mediamonkey (MM) or Winamp (i.e., currently it has no library, no last.fm support etc). But, for some reason I cannot fathom, it sounds better to ME. It's also very light in memory usage, and keyboard-friendly; that's all I need for now. I drag form MM library to this, then close MM because I cannot afford the memory it takes.
   
   Great program. We should all be proud that things like this get written.
   PS: I'd really like to know what it does to make it sound better than others!

3. 
   Review - AIMP

   2.5 Build 304 RC4 (Oct 11, 2008)

   won't load my collection.
   I have ID3.2 v2 tags only, the simplest and most compatible format. However, loading the files into the library makes the progress bar freeze. I removed the offenders, but AIMP promptly froze again. What a pity, since it seems very promising.

4. 
   Review - MediaMonkey

   3.0.2.1134 RC3 (Feb 3, 2008)

   This must be one of the worst programmed applications out there, by far.
   The number of bugs is incredible!
   
   Great community, and great design decisions, but horrible implementation.
   
   Last.fm support is broken.
   You will see errors popping up that no end user should ever see. Just use it.
   
   Importing my library (that works fine in any other player I tried) I got hundred of popups with errors that you have to dissmiss manually (i.e., no 'ignore all' button.

5. 
   Review - J. River Media Center

   12.0.189 (Mar 18, 2007)

   This was my preferred player a while ago. It has many features and works well with large databases. The community works hard creating plugins, and the forum is active.
   
   However, what alienated me and made me look for better alternatives is the fact that the Jriver staff (and some frequent posters) ban comments that they don't like for unknown reasons, and often mock some posters. This is inappropriate, inadequate. Minor pet peeves such as asking for CDDB support (which is superior to Jriver's own cd database) will get your post banned or laughted at.
   
   The plugin architecture is not very friendly (not only the forum!). The proof is that alternative software, with better, friendly support for plugins and scripts has triumphantly displaced Jriver's MC from the market: I'm talking about MediaMonkey. This is the best media player out there today. The scripts are great, and so are the forums. It can grab CD covers and info from amazon, google and others. Large databases (I have > 200Gb) are handled a lot better than Jriver's MC. I never looked back.