# Music library managers - help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-library-managers-help/153345>\
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**Created:** [June 30, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-library-managers-help/153345 "2005-06-30T19:40:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![lava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lava](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lava)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-library-managers-help/153345/1 "2005-06-30T19:40:25Z")

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Hello,

I’m looking for advice on which music manager to use. I’ve been using Winamp 5’s media library for a long, long time, but I’m wondering if there’s something better out there.

Basically, I need a player that will have global hotkeys, like winamp does. If I have to point and click to play a new song, it’s immediately out of the question. I want to be able to rate songs with global hotkeys as well.

I also need this program to figure out for me my duplicated files. I’ll often have 8 files for the same song ☹

I also need to be able to have views, kinda like how winamp does it. I want to be able to listen to the high-rated songs that I haven’t heard in the last two weeks. I want also to be able delete those songs that have low ratings.

And last, but not least… this is the reason why I want to switch away from winamp. I want to be able to listen to music in my downloads folder, rate it, and then move it to another place (if I like it) without losing all the rating information. That’s the one thing that’s pissing me off right now.

Do you guys have recommendations?