MediaMonkeys, unite! Anyone have tips/tutorials?

[Coldblackice]

I'm a fresh convert to the church of the monkey de media (Mediamonkey). Wow, what a fantastic program! Soooo long iTunes! This is the music program I've been dreaming of all along, and I get giddily excited with the library management and tagging features I know about, but also excited at how incredible pervasive and deep this program is. Definitely seems to have a lot of ability and power, and I feel I haven't even come close to scratching the surface.

With that tomfoolery aside, do you have any tips, tricks, or suggestions? I'd love to know how you manage your library, what tools/functions you use, cool ways of doing things, etc. Of course, don't feel obligated to write a full-blown tutorial if you don't want to; even just mentioning "I like how I can do X while Y is happening" is enough of a breadcrumb to seek out how to do it (most of the time).

For instance, a very minor one, but I just learned that you can right-click the library folder in the top left and select which trees/subtrees you want to have shown/hidden. I know, mindblowing




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PS -- I feel like I still need to keep mentioning how MIND-BLOWN I am over my recent upgrade away from computer speakers and into bookshelfs/pro audio (compliments of [H]audiophiles). It has turned music from a casual passing-the-time listening to an endorphin-guzzling drug addiction. Really, I still just can't believe what I'm hearing now, and as corny as it may sound, what I'm -feeling-! Wow, I just feel so dang good listening to it!

 

[Engine Geek]

I used to use MM, but somewhere along in the last few updates, it started choking when loading my library. So now I use Spotify as it has no problem loading all my music (about 150,000 tracks). I liked MM, and the developers respond quickly to any issues, but so far no fix for the crash in my instance.

 

[matteos]

I'm a fresh convert to the church of the monkey de media (Mediamonkey). Wow, what a fantastic program! Soooo long iTunes! This is the music program I've been dreaming of all along, and I get giddily excited with the library management and tagging features I know about, but also excited at how incredible pervasive and deep this program is. Definitely seems to have a lot of ability and power, and I feel I haven't even come close to scratching the surface.

With that tomfoolery aside, do you have any tips, tricks, or suggestions? I'd love to know how you manage your library, what tools/functions you use, cool ways of doing things, etc. Of course, don't feel obligated to write a full-blown tutorial if you don't want to; even just mentioning "I like how I can do X while Y is happening" is enough of a breadcrumb to seek out how to do it (most of the time).

For instance, a very minor one, but I just learned that you can right-click the library folder in the top left and select which trees/subtrees you want to have shown/hidden. I know, mindblowing




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PS -- I feel like I still need to keep mentioning how MIND-BLOWN I am over my recent upgrade away from computer speakers and into bookshelfs/pro audio (compliments of [H]audiophiles). It has turned music from a casual passing-the-time listening to an endorphin-guzzling drug addiction. Really, I still just can't believe what I'm hearing now, and as corny as it may sound, what I'm -feeling-! Wow, I just feel so dang good listening to it!

mediamonkey is great, the best thing is the feature to convert tracks from FLAC to mp3 on the fly for mp3 players

 

[Kranium]

Been using it for 5 years or so. not user friendly so tell friends and parents to stick w/ itunes, but it's fantastic for those with huge libraries. It works very well with the ASIO plugin too.