MediaMonkey Features
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:50 pm
Having just recently moved from Vista to Ubuntu Natty, I am of course currently looking for replacements programs for all of my apps. One is MediaMonkey. Fair to say that nothing comes close to it anywhere else on any platform.
Features I would like to see Guayadeque adopt from MediaMonkey, thus making Guayadeque truly awesome:
Auto Organize
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-Ctrl R on MediaMonkey. You can specify, exactly, any filenaming scheme you wish using (Artist), (Album), (Genre) filters etc. eg I could set all my full albums to "/media/Storage/Music/Albums/(Artist)/(Album)/(Track#: 2) (Title)" and my random loose singles to "/media/Storage/Music/Random/(Artist) - (Title)"
Edit: Formatting ate my angle brackets so I changed them to ().
MediaMonkey also conveniently remembers the last 5 settings for this in a drop down list, so I can easily move various full albums or random songs painlessly. See Google images "MediaMonkey Auto Organize" has a nice checkbox display so you can choose which tracks to apply renaming to.
Replay Gain
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- Ctrl-Alt-V ? on MediaMonkey. Calculates an offset based on say 89dB for any track and adds the offset on a per track and per album to the appropriate MP3 tags. This allows one to set "Level Volume" and makes for a more even listening experience without overly loud or overly soft tracks. Note that this DOES NOT actually physically alter the music itself, only calculate on offset so that the track can be automatically lowered/raised in volume by the player.
Semi-Colon Support
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The feature I miss the most. Full support for semi-colon delimiting in the various tags, including Artist and Genre. This is essential for multi-artist songs and proper categorization of tracks into multiple genres.
eg. "I Will Be Here" by Tiesto has Artist:"Tiesto; Sneaky Sound System" and Genre:"Trance; House; Electro"
So when I do a search for Tiesto it will display this song, also if I do a search for Sneaky Sound System. If a do a genre seach for any of those 3 genres, the song will also be displayed.
Important: when showing a list of all Artists, it shows each individually, not as in Guyadeque currently: Tiesto/Sneaky Sound System. And when displaying a list of all Genres it displays each individually instead of just dumping the string "Trance; House; Electro" into a list. Also, I would like the Artist info to display the names separated by colons instead of slashes.
Editing song information
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- Shift-Enter in MediaMonkey. A one stop shop, with tabs, which enables you to edit all tags, album art, and filename for the track in one convenient popup window. Must have for editing multiple tracks repeatedly. Also has a glorious back/forward button, so that if you highlight one album, you can edit each track and click forward to edit the next track in the album. Saves much time.
Hopefully all of these features will find the way into Guayadeque so it can become the best player ever, and topple MediaMonkeys grip on so many people.
Thanks for reading,
MattSan
Features I would like to see Guayadeque adopt from MediaMonkey, thus making Guayadeque truly awesome:
Auto Organize
-------------------
-Ctrl R on MediaMonkey. You can specify, exactly, any filenaming scheme you wish using (Artist), (Album), (Genre) filters etc. eg I could set all my full albums to "/media/Storage/Music/Albums/(Artist)/(Album)/(Track#: 2) (Title)" and my random loose singles to "/media/Storage/Music/Random/(Artist) - (Title)"
Edit: Formatting ate my angle brackets so I changed them to ().
MediaMonkey also conveniently remembers the last 5 settings for this in a drop down list, so I can easily move various full albums or random songs painlessly. See Google images "MediaMonkey Auto Organize" has a nice checkbox display so you can choose which tracks to apply renaming to.
Replay Gain
----------------
- Ctrl-Alt-V ? on MediaMonkey. Calculates an offset based on say 89dB for any track and adds the offset on a per track and per album to the appropriate MP3 tags. This allows one to set "Level Volume" and makes for a more even listening experience without overly loud or overly soft tracks. Note that this DOES NOT actually physically alter the music itself, only calculate on offset so that the track can be automatically lowered/raised in volume by the player.
Semi-Colon Support
---------------------------
The feature I miss the most. Full support for semi-colon delimiting in the various tags, including Artist and Genre. This is essential for multi-artist songs and proper categorization of tracks into multiple genres.
eg. "I Will Be Here" by Tiesto has Artist:"Tiesto; Sneaky Sound System" and Genre:"Trance; House; Electro"
So when I do a search for Tiesto it will display this song, also if I do a search for Sneaky Sound System. If a do a genre seach for any of those 3 genres, the song will also be displayed.
Important: when showing a list of all Artists, it shows each individually, not as in Guyadeque currently: Tiesto/Sneaky Sound System. And when displaying a list of all Genres it displays each individually instead of just dumping the string "Trance; House; Electro" into a list. Also, I would like the Artist info to display the names separated by colons instead of slashes.
Editing song information
---------------------------------
- Shift-Enter in MediaMonkey. A one stop shop, with tabs, which enables you to edit all tags, album art, and filename for the track in one convenient popup window. Must have for editing multiple tracks repeatedly. Also has a glorious back/forward button, so that if you highlight one album, you can edit each track and click forward to edit the next track in the album. Saves much time.
Hopefully all of these features will find the way into Guayadeque so it can become the best player ever, and topple MediaMonkeys grip on so many people.
Thanks for reading,
MattSan