I don't like Media Monkey so far

Media Monkey is a great program.

I don't have any mp3, but check MM forums for Magic Node or Magic Nodes. I read a thread where someone posted something about this.

I have found alot of the music file programs to be pretty confusing--maybe I'm simpleton. I'm currently using Foobar2000, but it confuses me as well--though ripping CD's is far easier with it than EAC.

I like Media Monkey and have been using it for about 4 years. However for my 2 channel system, Sonos is controlling my music file playback via my phone or tablet. I use Media Monkey to rip all my music in both Flac and MP3. These are separated in 2 different folders so I have no problem disguising between the two.

I don't know it we're on the same page. I have flac in basically c:\mymusic and mp3 in c:\music. Media Monkey and Sonos can distinguish between the two or blend them together by either looking at the individual folders or "all music". This is probably easier to navigate on a computer than a tablet....I am not using the MM app but the MM software. Sorry, some things can be a pain in the butt to figure out.

Most of the music programs don't organize your files like Windows. It would be silly and is more tedious to do it that way. That's why you are having difficulty with all those programs.

You obviously need/want to organize your music via a folder, a sub folder or sub sub folder so you'll have to work at finding a work around within these programs.

MM is an excellent and extremely versatile program. But it's not set-up to allow you to run the data like Windows.

H9

I dont use MM any more, I found jriver to be better for me. But you can turn off the the auto scan at startup. You can make it scan only the folders you want if you can find it in all of the settings. It is a good app but does take time to figure it out. Good luck.

I've found MM to be the easiest to use for file mgmt. Sorting, finding & duplicates, renaming. I modify album titles to reflect the type of rip. For example, I'll add things like: (24.96 vinyl), (sacd), (24.192), (SHrem), (BGrem), (AP vinyl), (Quiex), (320), (exp or dlx), and sometimes add an * if I've determined one sounds better than all the others fi there are multiple copies I want to keep. You could differently name albums for Amzn, CD, 320 to separate and otherwise manage them.

When deleting dupes, you can choose to remove from library or library and hard drive. I always set to both. I let MM do all the retagging and only mess with the Windows folders occasionally to remove empty artist folders, merge artists (like Rolling Stones and The Rolling Stones), and to rename artists (e.g. my Neil Young folder somehow got changed to Young, Neil).

I don't continue to update the MM library. When I rip with db (or MM for that matter), I rip to my PC's user download folder. Then I use MM to edit before moving over to the USB drive which is just one huge "Music" folder with artist subfolders. Rescanning in MM is unnecessary. Once on the USB, LMS (Squeezebox), JRiver, Roon, etc, can auto update those libraries if applicable.

This was way too rambling and may be off the mark. Feel free to pm me.

Craig

When my monkey is bad, I spank it.

afterburnt wrote: »

Nor can I see a good way to segregate MP3's from FLAC's.

The best way to segregate MP3's from FLAC is to delete them!

Didn't you start a thread titled "MP3's really stink"....just saying.

You can convert Flac to MP3 on the Fly. I rip everything to Flac. If I want some MP3s for the car I open the drop down box on the send to tab and then select folder (rip/convert), then I select the drive letter where my usb is. That open a box where there are numerous options/setting for the file you want to create.