by NewtonBoy » Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:17 am
Peke wrote:To conclude, if MMW sucks then we need to suck it up and fix things instead of letting it rot?
Peke, you are right Media Monkey is pretty much the only game in town if you have a large library. I have tried them all, and somehow, I keep coming back to Media Monkey.
I share kjegou's frustration. I have issues as well. I've had to rebuild my database from scratch more than once. I've had to restore from backup because something "Happened" more than once. I've come to the point where I obsessively backup, using the Backup 6.0 plugin, and then performing a full optimization on the database multiple times when I am editing for an extended period. But that isn't that big of a deal for me. I understand the vagaries of databases, and how problems come up with large files. I accept this need as a fact of life. I also find that I only really have these kinds of problems when I'm working on perfecting my tags.
So what makes me angry? What drives me up a wall, and causes me to hate Media Monkey? It's the stupid little things. I posted in another session about my issue with renaming albums.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=86485 That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Yes, If I use the Mouse and re-select the artist, I don't have the selection issue. The problem I have is that it works just fine if I add a fourth column, change something there, and reselect it. It behaves as I expect.
Peke wrote: MMW is an old lad and starts like you said starting to have downsides
Usually, I just hit play on some playlist and have some background music. MMW works perfectly for that now that I have auto playlists and collections setup. If I'm just sitting and listening to music, I'm fussing with tags in Media Monkey. I've always thought that the interface was clunky when I'm doing this. I have a list of minor annoyance I've been compiling I was going to throw it out on the board much like kjegou did here. I admit, most of them sound stupid because they have to do with unexpected behavior. I use a lot of different software during the day as a Network Administrator. I also often have to use unfamiliar packages. Usually I can work my way through those because they all follow some generally accepted conventions. I find some of those conventions missing in Media Monkey. These get really irritating. Most of these are probably the result of fixing bits of code to make one thing work, and then breaking something else that never gets found in testing. Maybe time for a new QA method?
I don't know the answer, but I know it's not the current situation. I like Media Monkey, and I'm happy to help make it better.
Seriously though, Sync is major. Fix Sync.
[quote="Peke"]To conclude, if MMW sucks then we need to suck it up and fix things instead of letting it rot?[/quote]
Peke, you are right Media Monkey is pretty much the only game in town if you have a large library. I have tried them all, and somehow, I keep coming back to Media Monkey.
I share kjegou's frustration. I have issues as well. I've had to rebuild my database from scratch more than once. I've had to restore from backup because something "Happened" more than once. I've come to the point where I obsessively backup, using the Backup 6.0 plugin, and then performing a full optimization on the database multiple times when I am editing for an extended period. But that isn't that big of a deal for me. I understand the vagaries of databases, and how problems come up with large files. I accept this need as a fact of life. I also find that I only really have these kinds of problems when I'm working on perfecting my tags.
So what makes me angry? What drives me up a wall, and causes me to hate Media Monkey? It's the stupid little things. I posted in another session about my issue with renaming albums. [url]http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=86485[/url] That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Yes, If I use the Mouse and re-select the artist, I don't have the selection issue. The problem I have is that it works just fine if I add a fourth column, change something there, and reselect it. It behaves as I expect.
[quote="Peke"] MMW is an old lad and starts like you said starting to have downsides[/quote]
Usually, I just hit play on some playlist and have some background music. MMW works perfectly for that now that I have auto playlists and collections setup. If I'm just sitting and listening to music, I'm fussing with tags in Media Monkey. I've always thought that the interface was clunky when I'm doing this. I have a list of minor annoyance I've been compiling I was going to throw it out on the board much like kjegou did here. I admit, most of them sound stupid because they have to do with unexpected behavior. I use a lot of different software during the day as a Network Administrator. I also often have to use unfamiliar packages. Usually I can work my way through those because they all follow some generally accepted conventions. I find some of those conventions missing in Media Monkey. These get really irritating. Most of these are probably the result of fixing bits of code to make one thing work, and then breaking something else that never gets found in testing. Maybe time for a new QA method?
I don't know the answer, but I know it's not the current situation. I like Media Monkey, and I'm happy to help make it better.
Seriously though, Sync is major. Fix Sync.