What's on the wishlist?

[Lowlander]

I have gone through most of the postings on this wishlist forum and created a wishlist with all those wishes.
This list is fairly complete and it's now up to you all to inform me about old wishes or wishes hidden in other forums.

How to use it
This wishlist is for your information and helps you in finding which features have been requested. So before posting you should check it out. You'll need to find the corresponding posts yourself (sorry). The list isn't sorted on importance and wishes on the list might not be picked up by the program makers.

How to add a wish
Please Private Message me with the wish and the link to the corresponding forum item. Only wishes with a corresponding forum item will be added by me. This is so that other users can understand the wish and add their opinions as well.



The list
MM - System UI
- Add call script function to track right click menu
- File properties window docked in MM under tracklistings window (option to show/hide)
- Better error messages (simple novice language)
- Better interface to manage plugins
- Better interface to manage scripts
- Better interface to manage DB's in nonstandard MM location or multiple DB's
- Better interface to edit song tags while ripping
- Gray out Gold options in free version
- Add network in send-to menu
- Party/bar mode for MM
- Back button (missing search window pop-up when moving back to search window)
- Add icons for scripts to toolbars
- Show song info pop-up for duration of song
- Show song info in pop-up without WinXP beep
- Option to open webpages externally
- Show status bar when loading webpage
- Leave out the MM generated numbers in front of titles in playlists and now playing
- Show report when Add Tracks to Library is done
- Show report when Analyze Volume is done (show files not analyzed)
- Resizable player (for higher resolution screens)
- List last couple played songs in filemenu
- Scroll current playing playlist
- Add equalizer presets to tray icon menu
- Resizable options window (for synchronization with large playlists)
- More confirmation dialogs with stats about action taken
- Tracks wishlist

MM - System technical
- Faster search/track listing loads
- Statistics
- Buddy file support (change their filename when song filename is changed)
- BPM detector
- Connect to multiple DB's simultaneously
- Undo function for delete, edit, ect of tracks
- Add album to FreeDB
- Delete music folders when the become empty due to editing moving in MM
- Allow to remote access MM Now Playing (for sharing songs listened to or control another PC with good sound)
- Ability to record radio in MM
- Song cutting tool (to cut off silences and split multi song files, ect)
- Import DB's from other programs
- Support for burning MP3 CD's
- Autostart feature (to autostart playing like sleep shuts down)
- Add streaming radio support
- Add broadcast support
- Make MM automatically find cached files on Virtual CD folder(s) (for files copied manually)
- Option to autoskip errors in CDripping
- Correct corrupted files
- Allow te select Play next as option for what to do when song is doubleclicked
- Option to rip CD as one MP3
- Customizable context menu
- Drag & Drop files to and from any external app.
- Batch process (convert, edit, relocate)
- Treat shortcuts as full file
- Option to autostart ripping on CD insertion
- Ability to create a virtual CD entry without the CD (to link songs to multiple CD's)
- Network DB management
- Predictive text
- Full replay gain implementation
- More extensive renaming/retagging function
- remember filter or option save filter
- remember past searches
- Reset played status option for selected files or whole library
- Allow manual update of played status
- Add user definable hotkeys
- Linux and MAC version of MM
- List printing capability
- Play Now doesn't erase Now Playing
- Que track changes until track finishes playing
- Write settings changes to ini file as they occur (column settings)
- Line in recording
- Database backup
- Eject CD option on end of rip
- PDA remote control of MM
- Add play capability to folders in Win Explorer
- Search and highlight capability within tracklisting or now playing
- Notification when empty files to edit node is no longer empty
- Ability to open read-only DB
- Option to exclude songs on manual playlists from dead links
- Album art add dialog opens folder song is in (optional)
- Apple AirportExpress support

MM - Songs
- Full ID3v2.4 support
- Allow for multiple artist
- Allow for multiple albums
- Allow for multiple genres
- Allow for multiple ratings
- Allow for multiple mood's
- Allow for multiple occassions
- Add misc Flags for Song (Remix, Live, Acoustic, Incomplete)
- Add field for composer to tracklistings
- Add field for language of song
- Add albums properties (IsCompilation (yes/no), Release Date (2001), YearsCompiled ("1950 to 1960"))
- Include album-art
- Auto volume levelling while unleveled song is played
- Edit volume levelling value
- Allow specifying how ID3 tags are created
- Option to capitalize first letter from each word (and update the tags as well)
- Eliminate silences from volume levelling analysis
- Manual/auto album rating
- Allow autorename to use any field
- Add custom field to file rename
- Add tag extension management to create consistent CaSe tags
- Add Date of recording field
- Save equalizer preset per song
- Coupling of songs (intro's & outro's to song)
- Verify song time online
- EncSpot information

MM - Player
- Streaming media support
- Keep playing after end of Now Playing is reached (either by randomly selecting track from whole DB or a user-defined set of genre's or backup-playlist)
- Fast forward/rewind
- Option to lock currently playing track
- On startup keep playing where last session left off
- Position slider would show time of current slider position when moving
- Option to set song title scrolling preference

MM - Explorer tree
- Customizable nodes (how and which displayed)
- Add filter capability to all nodes
- Less indent for subnodes
- Seperation of audio and video files
- Get rid of + expand sign for nodes that don't have subnodes
- 'The' (show artist as the beatles, beatles, the or beatles as user wishes)
- Create custom main genre's
- Add send-to to subnodes
- Option to show node totals
- Remember last used node on startup
- Burn CD node
- Unknown quality subnode under files to edit
- Grey out unavailble subnodes
- Tabbed view (for main nodes and alphabet tabs for subnodes)
- Shortcuts to frequent used folders
- Favorites node (To store links to favorite nodes)

MM - Tracklisting
- Ability show comments or lyrics (Or just that they exist for that track)
- Allow manually ordering of tracks (to use with auto track #)
- Hide Dead Links tracks from tracklistings
- Leave filename out of file path field
- Add quality field
- Option to show subfolders in here (for drag & drop)
- Option to have column widths auto adjusted

MM - Now Playing Window
- Add more player controls (all player controls)
- Change text color of tracks that have been played
- Make Now playing list sortable using field headings
- Warning when adding a duplicate (option to allow/disallow duplicate)
- Option to have songs deleted once played
- Intelligent randomize (Randomize albums, ect)
- Option for enable/disable on top when in Now Playing mode

MM - Properties window
- Tab to show which playlists song is on
- Auto track numbering when multiple files are selected
- Allow for extra zero in track number (05 or 09)
- Show both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
- Copy tags from one track to another
- Auto rename files when tags change
- Delete unused genre's out of the genre drop down list
- Auto-manage filename length limit excess
- User defined max filename length (for portable players)
- Allow dragging and dropping album art

MM - Search
- More advanced search (AND OR NOT)
- Make Type field searchable
- Make Album Artist field searchable and include in search all fields
- Multiple <Content> Search
- Possibility to write search query in SQL
- Include all fields in sorting
- Dockable simple search window with results as you type

MM - Playlists
- Option to randomize manual playlist each time seen
- Duplicate track management
- Easy export of single and all playlists
- Ability to highlight playlist tracks in general library
- Send to autoplaylist would update query automatically
- Gray out dead links on manual playlists

MM - Album browser
- List instead of drop-down found album list
- Back/Forward button for the last couple of searched tracks
- Searchable search results to find song title
- Result sorting on date or album title
- Use other services to get more results (foreign music)
- Get found info directly into tags
- Show status bar

MM - Files to edit
- More advanced duplicate file search (so it can find fairly alike files)
- Unknown track# node (display songs with album info but no track #)
- Duplicate track # (Display a list of albums that have multiple songs with the same track #)

MM - Ripping
- Store encoder info and encoder settings
- Option to auto-eject after ripping
- Show info in rip progress bar
- Option to set auto-retry times
- De/Select all tracks option

MM - Burning
- Allow printing of tracklist at end of burning

MM - file formats
- Full VQF support
- Full SHN support
- Full WM support
- Full FLAC support
- MPC tag support
- Full Wav tag support
- Full WMP support
- Full APE support
- Full MIDI support
- Full Mpeg1Layer2 support
- Full MP3 Pro support
- Full MP4 support
- Full AIFF support
- IDX playlist creation support
- Full m4a support
- Ability to use songs within archives (.rar, .zip, etc.)

MM - portable players
- Ability to resample songs to lower bitrate when synchronizing
- synchronize based on the folder structure
- Add support for more than one player/drive
- Option to store original location on synchronize
- Reverse-Synchronize tool based on stored original location (with library update as well)
- Option to use network location as synchronization location
- Ability to convert characters on sync
- Ability to define max files per folder
- Ability to sync to url (ftp)
- Ability to add playlist position # to filename on sync
- Ability to volume level files added to player without leveling the original
- Ability to set custom volume level per device
- Option to only use ID3v1 or v2 in files send to portable device
- Show total size of files to be synced (maybe add check for available space on device)
- Create a recently added to player playlist in MM

Album art
- Option to disable upsizing image


Added in 2.2
- Multiple language support
- Now Playing window docked in MM under tracklistings window (option to show/hide)
- Search box added to MM interface for fast searching
- Quick rate option from the system tray
- <Album Artist> in Auto-tag and Auto Rename
- Good visualization support
- Support for external devices in MM (like Ipod)
- Ability to select subdirectories without selecting the maindirectory for add tracks/file monitor
- Add date added field to tracks
- Add date last modified field to tracks
- Undock player from explore tree
- Show friendlier info in Last played field (ie Today, yesterday)
- Unhinge Now Playing Window out of MM
- Make file path/name searchable
- Allow for increase/decrease of explorer tree width - when player is not located in same column



Plugin solves it
- Local FreeDB support

[jaxjon]

Lowlander,

I sent a PM but got this.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: from() in /home/songs-db/public_html/forum/privmsg.php on line 1312

Did it go through?

Thanks,
Jaxjon

[jiri]

There is some problem in sending private messages in phpBB (which is running this forum), I'll try to find out what's wrong, what can be done to fix it.

As for the wishlist - it's really nice compilation Lowlander! I believe it will help many people! Btw, maybe you could change it to 'sticky' post type, it will be always on top then (if you can't do it, let me know and I will).

Jiri

[jaxjon]

Lowlander,

Do you have e-mail address to use since private messaging is not working?

Jaxjon

[Lowlander]

The error message does appear, but the message goes through. If you want to make sure it went through, check your outbox, it should show up there!

[rusty]

For those of you that are interested, here's a very rough and very preliminary list of what we intend to tackle for MediaMonkey 2.2. It's based primarily on feedback from the forums combined with some our high level objectives for the next release which were to:
-give MM a sleeker, more attractive look
-make MM easier to use and understand for the average user, especially when it comes to using it in conjunction with portable music players
-add some of the checklist features that are currently missing
-limit the size of the release to something that could be done in a couple of months

There are undoubtedly going to be changes to the list; Some features/fixes will be added and others removed, but it gives a very rough guide about what we're currently thinking:

• Library/Properties:
  New: Make it easier to edit track properties (e.g. ratings) while playing by allowing properties window to be locked to Now Playing
  New: Option to turn off character limit checking when moving files
  New: Add option to not always modify track timestamps
  New: Allow user to view Tracks by date added to the file system
  New: Genres: Ability to customize the list of available Genres
  New: Volume leveling default volume should be adjustable + higher default
  New: Volume leveling a la MP3Gain
  New: Integrate Now Playing dialog into the main view
  Fix: Levelling volume of the played track isn't as fast as it could be
  Fix: Default track order should be an empty string + 04 shouldn't change to 4
  Fix: MM sometimes scans directories even when they're not selected
  Fix: User should be able to edit volume leveling values
  Fix: Editing or leveling paused track --> 1 sec of playback
  Fix: Show 'comments' (and other missing important fields) in tracklist
  Fix: Character-limit checking dialog is confusing
  Fix: Clarify 'Add Tracks to the Library...' (it's used to add _and_ rescan)
  Fix: Improve Usability when View Player is Disabled (i.e. include play controls & status info in MM interface)
  Fix: 'All' folder is redundant in many instances
  Fix: Autorename doesn't support accented characters / Improved handling of 'illegal' characters
  Fix: Improved representation of Inserted CDs vs. Physical CDs
  Fix: Add folders logic is flawed: cannot add directory without subdir
  Fix: Track Titles are Confusing (Track #'s in Now Playing and playlists are confusing)
  
  Search/AutoPlaylists/Playlists:
  New: More intuitive/powerful ability to edit playlists
  New: Advanced Search/Autoplaylist should support 'Last Played' queries (gold)
  New: New Logical Operators for 'Advanced Search' (gold)
  New: Docked Search Window
  New: Ability to restrict search to current view
  New: Search for filename
  New: Much better interface for 'Advanced' searches
  
  Player/Playback/Now Playing:
  New: Small in-player visualization
  New: Support for Visualization plug-ins + Bundle visualization plugin(s)
  Fix: A couple of graphic glitches in the internal player
  Fix: Not all characters are shown properly in in player window
  Fix: Playback reacts slowly to some actions
  Fix: Shuffle functionality prevents seeing what song was played
  Fix: Remove CD while playing --> Now Playing list stops playing
  
  Items Related to Device Export:
  New: Support for data transfer to external devices without forcing playlist creation
  Fix: Don't show non-existent drives in 'Send-to' menu
  Fix: Send to: requires extra steps
  Fix: Send-to device (Copy) adds files to library
  Fix: Send to network location
  
  Systemic issues:
  New themeable skin for MM, with much more modern look
  New: WMA9 Support
  New: Allow database to be created to arbitrary location
  New: Official support for shared db
  Fix: Simplify error messages
  Fix: revamped CD Album catalog & Virtual CD functionality
  Fix: Minor Cleanup of Toolbar Menus
  
  Configuration:
  Configuration options for file re-scans are confusing (they're distributed between the Library and File Monitor options tabs)
  
  CD Burning (Gold?):
  Burn Audio CD (without Nero)
  Burn Data CD

One final comment: As you can see, some of the work planned involves changes to MediaMonkey's look and feel, if graphic artwork is a talent of yours, please drop me a note--we could use your help.

-Rusty

[Lowlander]

I must admit I like this list for the next version. Of course there are always other things left, but that's why it's your program and not mine. I will be looking out for the first beta release to get to play with it.

Thanks

[erich]

see "http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic ... 30&start=0&
postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=51ad12de92a53d49fecfe6c4bd13d0fa".

[quitadamo]

"Delete unused genre's out of the genre drop down list "

I second this one...

Any way I can edit that list in an ini file??

[Lowlander]

Yes you can modify the genre listing manuallu right now.

First of all you need to be careful so backup the DB before starting.

You'll need to edit the DB and well the genre's table. You can delete any genre with an IDGenre higher than 100000 and if it is not used in any song in the DB. Don't delete any of the other genre's as these need to be in the DB for MM (they come standard with MM).

So you'll be stuck with those first 147 or so genre's.

[quitadamo]

[quote="Lowlander"]

Yes you can modify the genre listing manuallu right now.

First of all you need to be careful so backup the DB before starting.

Done

You'll need to edit the DB and well the genre's table.

HUH? Which File? Where is it??

You can delete any genre with an IDGenre higher than 100000 and if it is not used in any song in the DB.

Can you walk me to the file location?

Don't delete any of the other genre's as these need to be in the DB for MM (they come standard with MM).

And if I do? Will it stop working?

I would love to abbreviate the list down to the 4 or 5 that I use - I will never have the need for both Sound Track & Soundtrack.

[Lowlander]

I'm talking about MediaMonkey.mdb which MM installs in Program Files\MediaMonkey\Data.

In the table Genre's you have a listing of all genre's used in MM. It has 3 fields: IDGenre, GenreName & Description. The IDGenre of genre's you want to delete needs to be 100000 and up (The first ones MM needs at all times, this might be changed in a future version of MM).

You can't delete genre's that are in use as other parts of the Database refer to this table.

So before you go ahead deleting genre's you might want to go to the genre node in MM itself (not DB) and see which genre's are listed (MM only list the ones in use. You can use drag & drop to move files to a different genre (or to move them to one version of the same genre).


So in conclusion you are stuck for now with the pre-existing list of genre's (but that only bothers in the properties window of a song, in the genre node it will only list the ones that are in use). If you add songs to MM that have a non existent genre MM will create the genre (so you'll need to delete it again if you don't want it).

And remember to not have MM running while editing the DB, just to make sure no conflicts arrise!

[Vae]

Dear Media Monkey,

I have one small wish that would really be for the proper music nerd. In addition to a Composer view it would also be wonderful if you could view by Musicians. In a lot of music, especially jazz, you have a lot of people who play in multiple bands but who have never been a band leader themselves so it's hard to view every song that Oscar Pettiford or Booker Ervin played on.

I think this feature would be especially nice for any aspiring musicians with large collections of music, maybe even add it to the Gold version as not many people would bother filling in data from liner notes... unlike me )

Vae

[jim]

and ripping, perhaps just using the streamripper winamp plugin.

[ryanbelv]

Has anybody else forwarded the idea to have the dell digital jukebox supported?

I happen to love mine. (especially since they released a utility that lets you control how you add music directly as opposed to using music match)

Media Monkey seems like the tool of choice for managing large mp3 libraries and I'm loving it so far!