I just started using MediaMonkey, and I think it's really great. It's actually the second management program I've tried (after itunes)...and I've sorely been missing out.
It's got me wondering what program out there would help me manage a video collection...or multimedia collection. I have video clips in mind, but a photo collection would possibly worth trying (however, I'd prefer a strictly video managment app). Is there any suggestions? ...prefereably free or resonably cheap. ...not bloated ...basically, something like mediamonkey
I tried googling forever & didn't find anythign (i have to assume i'm just not using the right keywords)
Well I don't have a very large video collection, so I just use MM. Using some winamp plugins you can add a viewer to MM. Using my script "Video Node": http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6397 - you can add a node to keep them together.
Of course, MM will always be focused on audio, not video, so this is not an ideal solution. I don't however have any suggestions, sorry!
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I use Meedio, but I just use playback. I don't actually manage my videos except for the filename convention which I do in Windows Explorer. And yes Meedio has a free version available of the software.
I think I want to keep my music organizer separate from my video on, so I'll look into the Meedio. It's a full package app though, which is more than I desire...but if it's all I have... Something simple & focused, like mediamonkey would be great - something that gives me the ability to categorize my videos, rate them, and have cover art (or screenshots).
Everything I find is focused on DVDs, where as my stuff is music videos, video clips, home movies, etc.
Yes, it's a shame videos formats don't have an id tagging system like mp3 files do. Although I'm not necessarily looking for an app that renames, etc....I guess I just want a library system (to separate the files into categories) and a rating system.
Is it possible to have multiple instances of MM on one computer? If so, I'll just install another one, and use it for videos. I'm going to also try Meedio and J. River.
cochese,
Some Video formats have Tagging Abillity (AVI, and many FOURCC Based Codecs) thru Infochunk Similar to WAVE Taging. Althru there is no standardized TAG fields just few of them non-standard used in some Applications. Search Internet for "GSpot 2.21" I think it will show you all info that is partialy(Each Application uses own TAG Fields) supported in AVI.
Here Is list some of them:
INAM Title
IART Director
ICOP Copyright
IPRD Product
ICRD Creation Date
IGNR Genre
ISGN Secondary Genre
ISBJ Subject
IKEY Keywords
ICMT Comments
IWRI Written by
IPRO Produced by
ICNM Cinematographer
IPDS Production Designer
IEDT Edited by
ICDS Costume Designer
IMUS Music by
ISTD Production Studio
IDST Distributed by
ICNT Country
ILNG Language
IRTD Rating
IPRT Part
IFRM Total Number of Parts
ISTR Starring
ISFT Software
ITCH Encoded by
IRIP Ripped by
IDIT Digitizing Date
IWEB Internet Address
ISRF Source Form
IMED Medium
ISRC Source
IARL Archival Location
ICMS Commissioned by
IENG Engineer
ICRP Cropped
ISHP Sharpness
IDIM Dimensions
ILGT Lightness
IDPI Dots Per Inch
IPLT Palette Setting
IAS1 First language
IAS2 Second language
IAS3 Third language
IAS4 Fourth language
IAS5 Fifth language
IAS6 Sixth language
IAS7 Seventh language
IAS8 Eighth language
IAS9 Ninth language
ICAS Default audio stream
ILGU Logo URL
ILIU Logo Icon URL
IWMU Watermark URL
IMIU More Info URL
IMBI More Info Banner Image
IMBU More Info Banner URL
IMIT More Info Text
IENC Encoded by
NFO/ Info (Adobe Premiere)
For photos, I've found that Adobe Photoshop Elements is by far the best organizer out there. For a freebie, Google's Picasa isn't a bad offering, but I always get annoyed using it.
For videos, I too have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have probably 100's of video clips downloaded from the net, plus stuff I've ripped myself, and no easy way to tag and organize them... folders and filenames will only get you so far. I used to use MM to do it, but in the end I decided I'd rather have my music database separate, plus it's an imperfect solution being designed for music anyway.
What's needed is something that can scan your hard drive and let you add metatags to the files. Even if it's application specific metadata I'd be happy, as long as the application is good.
Perhaps the mediamonkey developers could spin off MM into something suitable? It'd require some database and interface changes, but the general idea shares so many similarities I'd think it could use a lot of the same code base (I don't know, I'm just guessing). If you could tweak the available fields and organizational trees to be more relevant to video and make it a separate application, it'd be perfect.
As a bonus if it could manage my DVD's as well, that'd be awesome. Most DVD organizers seem limited by the notion that all DVD's are movies. As nice as automatic IMDB lookups are... it's a really bad paradigm for when I'm trying to add TV shows on DVD, or want a record of the DVD extras.
So if anyone has some real good solutions to the problem (or if the OP finds one) let me know too!
