This program had more than enough options for me to catalog and play my meager mp3 collection. The interface looks slick and the options are adequate (at least for me). The only knock I could find against this program is the music starts playing as soon as you open a playlist. In my case, this is slightly annoying because I like to prioritize songs in the playlist "BEFORE" I start listening to the music. However, I created a workaround by placing a "silent (dummy) MP3 file" at the top of the playlist to keep the program busy (repeating) until I am ready to click on the first real song. Does this annoyance sound trivial; it really is, so ignore it and download the program! You'll be glad you did.
Price: Free
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Sep 06, 2007 for v1.52
The software developer responded to this review on Sep 11, 2007:
Hello,
For that, press F4 to display the preferences then uncheck "Autoplay when started". ALSong can either automatically start playing music for you, or not. The preferences give you quite a few nice options for how ALSong should behave. Putting in a few minutes to become familiar with them will really increase your satisfaction with it. The Global Shortcut Keys are a great thing to check out as you can control ALSong then without looking at it.
As always, if anyone ever needs help, it s available for free at the ALTools.net web site.
Regards,
Your ALTools Evangelist