[Update] MediaMonkey v2.3 Beta 5 (Build 834)

[ArjanDotOrg]

MediaMonkey v2.3 Beta 5 (Build 834)


Overview :

MediaMonkey is your powerful, easy-to-use, jukebox and organizer.
Organise music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful,
intuitive interface - Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never
again worry about varying volume - Record CDs into OGG, MP3, and WMA
files - Convert MP3s, OGGs, and WMA files into other formats with the
Audio Converter - Create playlists and music mixes quickly and easily
to suit any occasion - etc...

What's New:

- Added Flac playback plugin
- Added Flac tagging plugin
- Added check/workaround for Microsoft MDAC/Jet de-registration problem
- Updated Dutch, French, Spanish localizations for 2.3 features, thanks
to UI, Octopod and Pablo
- Fixed minor issues in html tracklist report
- Fixed Now Playing / Album Art refresh problem
- Fixed auto-organize memory allocation error

Homepage: http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Download: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3272

For related software, check out: http://www.arjan.org/?Database


Kind regards,

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[dadiOH]

MediaMonkey is your powerful, easy-to-use, jukebox and organizer.

MediaMonkey (formerly SongsDB) is a bloated piece of junk. IMO, YMMV
but I doubt it.

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[Simone Murdock]

MediaMonkey (formerly SongsDB) is a bloated piece of junk. IMO, YMMV
but I doubt it.

I don't agree: I use it and it is lighter than iTunes, has the
incremental search (that I love), can use winamp 2.xx plugin (like
pacemaker or Vocal Remover).
Alternatives ?

Simon
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[ArjanDotOrg]

MediaMonkey (formerly SongsDB) is a bloated piece of junk. IMO, YMMV
but I doubt it.

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dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

It's not easy to make it work as good as possible, that's right.
But that's up to the user.

A user has to review ALL his MP3 ID3-tags for the program to work like
a charm.
Most people don't have the patience to do this.
I myself have a lot of MP3-albums, all ID3v1&2 tagged 100% correctly by
Artist-Title-Album-Genre-Year-etc-etc...
MediaMonkey is really beautiful software when you arrange your
MP3-collection like this.

I can sort, play, arrange and make playlist using all these criteria.

So dadiOH, just tag all your MP3's as complete as possible, install
MediaMonkey, scan your music, combine the Various Artists albums and
then tell my what you think about it...

Regards,

Arjan

 

[dadiOH]

It's not easy to make it work as good as possible, that's right.
But that's up to the user.

A user has to review ALL his MP3 ID3-tags for the program to work like
a charm.
Most people don't have the patience to do this.
I myself have a lot of MP3-albums, all ID3v1&2 tagged 100% correctly
by Artist-Title-Album-Genre-Year-etc-etc...
MediaMonkey is really beautiful software when you arrange your
MP3-collection like this.

Mine is except I don't use ID3v2 tags. No need. Don't really need
ID3v1 either but I still tag my stuff with them.
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I can sort, play, arrange and make playlist using all these criteria.

So can I. With a program of less than 1MB installed vs 23MB. And with
a DB of 3.47 MB vs 26MB for the same quantity of songs. DB opens much
faster too naturally.
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So dadiOH, just tag all your MP3's as complete as possible, install
MediaMonkey, scan your music, combine the Various Artists albums and
then tell my what you think about it...

You can read what I think about it in my dandies (below) under "Other
Programs - More Database Programs" (it was SongsDB then).

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[dadiOH]

I don't agree: I use it and it is lighter than iTunes, has the
incremental search (that I love), can use winamp 2.xx plugin (like
pacemaker or Vocal Remover).
Alternatives ?

Personally, I like MP3Stock. It is about as light as you can get, uses
Winamp (all features and plugins).
http://leif.cx/mp3stock/index.html (click image to d/l)

It isn't for everyone though, uses ID3v1 tags and/or file names. The
lack of ID3V2 tags support is no loss in my view. It it does what it is
supposed to do - find anything or organize using any criteria - very
well and very rapidly. Other useful stuff too, more info in my dandies
below.

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dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[dadiOH]

ArjanDotOrg wrote:

BTW, I wasn't knocking your post, just the program itself.

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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
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[ArjanDotOrg]

Personally, I like MP3Stock. It is about as light as you can get, uses
Winamp (all features and plugins).
http://leif.cx/mp3stock/index.html (click image to d/l)
It isn't for everyone though, uses ID3v1 tags and/or file names. The
lack of ID3V2 tags support is no loss in my view. It it does what it is
supposed to do - find anything or organize using any criteria - very
well and very rapidly. Other useful stuff too, more info in my dandies
below.

The lack of ID3v2 means shorter titles/artist names/album names/etc,
because there's a character-limit to the ID3v1 tags. I find this very
annoying.
The new MediaMonkey also supports Album Art with the new beta version,
and that makes it al very cool looking.
But everyone just has to use what he thinks is best for him/her.
You have mp3stock, I have mediamonkey, and that's fine.


Regards,

_____
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[dadiOH]

The lack of ID3v2 means shorter titles/artist names/album names/etc,
because there's a character-limit to the ID3v1 tags. I find this very
annoying.

ID3v1 tags have fixed fields but the file names don't.

But everyone just has to use what he thinks is best for him/her.
You have mp3stock, I have mediamonkey, and that's fine.

Yep

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dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico