by nerdybaldguy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:02 pm
Well sure, I suppose if you have been using the product since 2003 you would think it isn't complicated. Weird menus, odd action names, many many clicks to get there. For somethign that in the modern world, everyone wants to do all the time. Should be a simple way to say "sync this playlist to this device and order the files". Software shouldn't be that hard to use for new users like me. I basically bought this program for ONE function, and that was it. I have been writing software for 41 years for a living. This is hardly intuitive to a new user, even one that has used a dozen different media manager programs in my time, and who writes software for a living. If J River had Auto Number I couldn't find it. It's my fave media manager at the moment. But I got Media Monkey for that one task, since it seems to be the only one who can do it at all...... even though you have to have the right phase of the moon and still takes you a gazillion clicks. Media Monkey needs to move into the 21st Century where we are using pretty stupid digital media systems in our cars instead of CDs. CDs were easy.... pick a playlist..... burn it. Now they don't even make (as far as I could find for my model of car) a system with both CD and digital media. And the car systems, for whatever reason, don't seem to support .m3u playlists. What is up with that?
Well sure, I suppose if you have been using the product since 2003 you would think it isn't complicated. Weird menus, odd action names, many many clicks to get there. For somethign that in the modern world, everyone wants to do all the time. Should be a simple way to say "sync this playlist to this device and order the files". Software shouldn't be that hard to use for new users like me. I basically bought this program for ONE function, and that was it. I have been writing software for 41 years for a living. This is hardly intuitive to a new user, even one that has used a dozen different media manager programs in my time, and who writes software for a living. If J River had Auto Number I couldn't find it. It's my fave media manager at the moment. But I got Media Monkey for that one task, since it seems to be the only one who can do it at all...... even though you have to have the right phase of the moon and still takes you a gazillion clicks. Media Monkey needs to move into the 21st Century where we are using pretty stupid digital media systems in our cars instead of CDs. CDs were easy.... pick a playlist..... burn it. Now they don't even make (as far as I could find for my model of car) a system with both CD and digital media. And the car systems, for whatever reason, don't seem to support .m3u playlists. What is up with that?