MusicIP Mixer

I mentioned the other day that I was trying Predixis MusicMagic and that it seamed quite good but it was slow and did choose some strange songs. As a recap the program helped you find music in your collection you would like. If you have a large collection like me, you end up not listening to most of your music.

I received 3 comments on the previous post from people involved with MusicIP Mixer which has replaced MusicMagic, they recommended I try the new version and if I had any problems to let them know. It seamed rather strange at the time but I'm actually grateful now because the new version is loads better, it took over night to scan my music which isn't bad. The old program wasn't even a quarter of the way in that time.

MusicIP also seams to have less restrictions on playlist size in the free version and find it hard to see what extra features I would want, to make me pay money for?
Maybe more control over moods and filters like formats and bitrates?

MusicIP isn't integrated into Winamp like the MusicMagic version I tried before but this is probably an advantage.

Below is an image of the program:
It's extremely simple to use, just import your music into it. The Winamp import didn't work for me, it only imported the Genres and never imported any artists, albums, tracks. So I just used the Add Songs option from the menu to import my music, then you select a track, tell it how many songs you would like in the generated playlist and press the mix button. It creates a playlist based on the selected song. If you don't like some of the songs it chose you can right click the song and ask it to replace it and another song will be chosen.

Below is a playlist MusicIP Mixer created and I have just about finished listening to. I chose the top song in the playlist and a playlist was created based on that song. The program did a very good job, there were a couple of songs I hadn't liked and I asked it to replace them. The resulting playlist was more or less what I was looking for (good background music). The only song that has felt out place so far has been the Temptations - Get Ready, but 1 out of 50 aint bad. I am up to song 45 in the playlist and have been impressed. I would highly recommend anyone with a colection of probably over 700 songs to try this out.

Click above image for larger (readable) version.

The only criticism isn't actually of the program but the website, the frontpage does't tell what the program is and lots of people would just not bother reading any further. To be honest when I first saw MusicIP before my previous post, I thought they had some how high jacked the Predixis domain because there was no real announcement saying that it was formerly known as MusicMagic and it looked less professional than the Predixis old site, which is still accessible. If the website was improved a lot more people would try the program I'm sure, rather than having doubts like I did. There does appear to be good help in the forums though :-)

Go try it!