by Hpoonis2010 » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:09 am
I set it to NEVER auto fill tags. I prefer to use my media player to play and other software to edit tags. So, the fact that there are fields with data in them that I didn't put there is extremely disconcerting and provides false information. The 'album' field is being populated by data from the track title field. This only happens for a few tracks per directory but, in any case, it should NOT be happening at all!
So, I decided to try out 5.0 to see if these issues were rectified. They were not. How very disappointing. Fancy new front end...not at all an improvement. I liked the listing format of the old interface. The new one defaults to album art at the top and then a listing of the tracks...no matter how often I remove the album listing it reappears when I re-open the software. Genre, Rating, and a bunch of other useless columns can no longer be permanently removed as they could with previous versions. Thus I have to keep getting rid of the chaff to show items in a way that suits me.
The ability to 'save' playlists has disappeared. This was useful in that one could back up playlists without having to backup the entire database.
Playlists are now no longer ordered logically: either a-z or 0-9. This is a shame as I had playlists for 1952 - 1999. Oh! you may cry, you can use the 'years' feature to play tracks from a particular year. All well and good, I say, but I had playlists for tracks only appearing in the charts for a particular year, but I have a lot more tracks (per year) that were NOT in the charts and so no wish to include those. I preferred the ordered system of old.
I like ordered data. It is easy to see discrepancies when data is ordered. The software seems to be taking backward steps. "Oh! But we made a fancy new front end! As long as it looks good, who cares what really happens back there?"
As for Android...it matters not what version of whatever. The android player refused to show only playlists/tracks that actually existed. When I delete playlists from the mobile device I expect them to disappear from the player. The solution I was offered (several years ago) was to do some twaddle with the local (android) database. If I have to manipulate the database manually, what's the point of having specific software? Thus, I use poweramp to play on mobile.
Two of the prime reasons I used mediamonkey: I despise microsoft and will NEVER use media player; Sync to mobile device. Not a lot of choice for sync twixt PC & device.
I set it to NEVER auto fill tags. I prefer to use my media player to play and other software to edit tags. So, the fact that there are fields with data in them that I didn't put there is extremely disconcerting and provides false information. The 'album' field is being populated by data from the track title field. This only happens for a few tracks per directory but, in any case, it should NOT be happening at all!
So, I decided to try out 5.0 to see if these issues were rectified. They were not. How very disappointing. Fancy new front end...not at all an improvement. I liked the listing format of the old interface. The new one defaults to album art at the top and then a listing of the tracks...no matter how often I remove the album listing it reappears when I re-open the software. Genre, Rating, and a bunch of other useless columns can no longer be permanently removed as they could with previous versions. Thus I have to keep getting rid of the chaff to show items in a way that suits me.
The ability to 'save' playlists has disappeared. This was useful in that one could back up playlists without having to backup the entire database.
Playlists are now no longer ordered logically: either a-z or 0-9. This is a shame as I had playlists for 1952 - 1999. Oh! you may cry, you can use the 'years' feature to play tracks from a particular year. All well and good, I say, but I had playlists for tracks only appearing in the charts for a particular year, but I have a lot more tracks (per year) that were NOT in the charts and so no wish to include those. I preferred the ordered system of old.
I like ordered data. It is easy to see discrepancies when data is ordered. The software seems to be taking backward steps. "Oh! But we made a fancy new front end! As long as it looks good, who cares what really happens back there?"
As for Android...it matters not what version of whatever. The android player refused to show only playlists/tracks that actually existed. When I delete playlists from the mobile device I expect them to disappear from the player. The solution I was offered (several years ago) was to do some twaddle with the local (android) database. If I have to manipulate the database manually, what's the point of having specific software? Thus, I use poweramp to play on mobile.
Two of the prime reasons I used mediamonkey: I despise microsoft and will NEVER use media player; Sync to mobile device. Not a lot of choice for sync twixt PC & device.