Teen Spirit (Jaangle)

[Fluffy]

Yeah, the name is pretty flaky, I know. But it appears to be a quite functional media center! I've confirmed that it's portable settings-wise with regshot, though I would very much appreciate it if someone could confirm portability with actual mp3 files stored on a portable device to ensure that the paths are stored properly (which I somehow doubt they are). I wouldn't mind doing it myself if I had a USB drive, but unfortunately I don't.

Synopsis: Teen Spirit is a new way to listen to music on your PC. It features a Music Collection Organizer and can Read ID3 Tags and other information from mp3, avi, mpg, wma, etc. files. Also contains automatic information retrieval for music such as album covers, lyrics and so on, as well as a media quiz game.

Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: Run the installer and use the standard move-then-delete procedure to uninstall (only uninstall.exe needs to be left).

Requirements: (none listed)

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.artificialspirit.com/

[John Shope]

I signed up just so I could comment on this.

This is a pretty fun program. You can get info on the artist, album reviews, etc, and it keeps stats. The iPod game (you know, what song is it) is pretty cool too.

BUT

While it is totally portable, it will not play music stored on a removable drive. I have no idea why the author did this, but they did.

[Fluffy]

It has promise, but unfortunately it also has a ridiculous number of bugs as well. And it really would be nice for the application to optionally use relative paths, but for what this program is designed for, absolute paths really are the better choice.

[outcast1000]

Hi Fluffy and thanks for your interest in Teen Spirit. TS is a work in progress.
You say "a ridiculous number of bugs" but i don 't have such a feedback. Can you help me out on this?

Relative links are under construction

Many thanks
Alex
http://www.artificialspirit.com/phpbb

[Fluffy]

I've already e-mailed you with some of them, and I plan to do it again since I find it very difficult to work with forums. As of today, I'm only involved with 2 because otherwise I lose focus very quickly.

[AlephX]

It seems that the application is more stable...

Opinions?

Site: http://teenspirit.artificialspirit.com/

DL: http://teenspirit.artificialspirit.com/downloading

Screenshot:

[Ennovy]

I tried version 0.95h and it is more stable and an excellent application.
Database and settings are stored in the application folder, but there is also an .ini file placed in the windows folder with Folder history.

Recommended

[garbanzo]

i tried this a few weeks ago while serachign for a music player to replace MediaMonkey - now that i have my whole collection tagged and sorted, i need something that starts up and loads my library faster!

i was not impressed at all. it really lacks polish, and the interface is muddled.

in the end i went with foobar. it had been months since i used it, and the default UI has made some huge strides in recent versions. plus, now that it has a 'portable install' option, it's just perfect!

[Leif]

A new version coming, probably this week-end (by the name of Jaangle). We'll see whether the interface etc. is as changed as the name...

[joby_toss]

Jaangle released:
http://www.jaangle.com/

Later edit: I think it's no longer portable (creates HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Jaangle key and jaangle.ini in Windows folder).

Correction: settings are portable, but the app is not stealth.

[Leif]

Still called tssetup.exe though. But it's the same as jsetup.exe.

[Napiophelios]

I have tried the zip pack as well as the installer
and I always get an error that jangle cant find or create the database file

has any one used this lately and is it worth messing with?

Does anyone at least know of a "semi-portable" music organizer besides foobar?

I am not so much intereted in carrying it around on a USB
as I am more interested in not having to reinstall it ( and reconfigure my settings)
evertime I change my OS.

[joby_toss]

Does anyone at least know of a "semi-portable" music organizer besides foobar?

Songbird?

[Napiophelios]

Nah songbird isnt quite what I am looking for.
Thanks for the suggestion tho.

I have settled on a homemade/stripped down MediaMonkey portable (NSIS launcher).
Its not quite what I wanted either but it will work.

[taotra]

Does anyone at least know of a "semi-portable" music organizer besides foobar?

There is MusicBee
http://getmusicbee.com/
In the release notes it says it's portable. You have to install it first, then in the program, under Edit - Preferences - System, you have to check the option to run it as a portable application.

There is also the old Godfather, old because it hasn't been updated since 2005.
http://users.otenet.gr/~dtou20/download.html
The download file is zipped, but inside is an executable setup file. You can try to extract that file and see if the program runs essentially in a portable mode.