Quantum Forest

After my latest hard drive crash I was facing an upgrade to my mp3 player software. I was tired of the peculiarities and sluggish interface of Musicmatch and went shopping around.

The obvious first stop was Winamp, which I first used around 1997. Unfortunately, Winamp could not make work the CDDB connection with Graceland, an issue probably related with me being behind a corporate firewall. I was looking for something with a small footprint and I settled with Media Monkey and even decided to forkout the US$19.95 for the gold edition. Media Monkey relies on freedb to obtain the album information, which works perfectly fine from my computer, and it is a very responsive smallish (~4MB) program. Yes, there are smaller mp3 programs (like Cool Player, for example) but they do not have all the features I was looking for.

The same day I received a parcel from my parents, with a compilation of the first two albums by Electrodomésticos. With this CD I have completed the music I was looking for year and a half ago.