I installed MM today as an alternative to iTunes 11 and I'm very happy with it. The features and customization are intuitive, efficient, and a relative joy to use.
It's like going from a tricycle to a full blown mountain bike. I just had to shout it somewhere.

I put intermediate because I like for my software to work and think the way I do. I'm willing to invest some time to make that happen. I tend to resist learning more new skills than necessary (scripting, etc), but if it saves me time in the long run I'll do it. That's how I started scripting with Picard.

I agree with prump.

Not interested in being a slave to my gadgets.

My money goes to the service that offers the most, with the littlest investment of MY time possible.

So I'm a committed 'basic' user. For life. I refuse to let my devices...and their upkeep...fritter away my day, weekend, etc.
If it's not intuitive and easy to use, it's not worth my time. That's why I'm paying you...right?

Intermediate for me.

I am a certified Newbie so I would say Novice here. Hope to learn more from you guys!

I have just in the last 2 days downloaded this program, and may I say that I am very impressed with it. I have been using Winamp for playing MP3's which I have taken from my collection of CD's (8000+) at the last count. I have 3 types of Back-up for them. One on the Computer HD which is connected to a Database (Catraxx) and playable through that. Also a back-up on my Pogoplug Network for some of my mates to listen to and last but no least on my WD Live Book which is connected to my Ipad3 and I can take this anywhere in the country.
I have put myself down as a basic user until I have a good look around this program, which at the moment seems just what I need to play my MP3's on the computer. A few more days with it and I think I will opt for the Gold Version.
I have got this program to play the MP3's from the pogoplug no problem at all, this will help me to make sure all covers are correct and any problems with MP3's should show up using this program.
All I can say is I wish I had found this program a few month ago.

Barrys

I VOTE THE BASIC USER

Basic User.
No scripts, but tag the hell out of my music.
Major Artists listed on each song.
Cover songs by major groups listed in Artist as 'Group name' - Various.
All dates are date of recording or performance... including classical. ie 1700's.
Live tracks tagged with date of performance at end of title...
doing this allows for chronological order of songs in list view.
(When you have 50 or so versions of some live songs, it helps)
Would love a separate producer and engineer category.
1.81 TB

I picked "intermediate." I manage a large library, effectively I think, though I don't write scripts or that sort of thing, which I consider advanced.

I have a collection of around 4500 MP3s. I would say nearly 4000 would be very well organised, only about 500 wouldn't be well tagged.
I am a music lover and listen to various genres, classical, pop, R&B, Rock, trance, Blues, Country etc. Only genres I don't like are Jazz and Metal. I even listen to songs in languages I don't understand

get audacity 3 free wave editor to make corrections and or save the wav to mp3 or ogg files you can expect a big learning curve for the audacity 3 its not a cheap little converter it is a full scale wav editor for free.

I'm new in MM world, and I'm learning mp3 encoding.

I am very new to this so I guess just novice. But I am getting the hang of it and I am definitely liking its features.

I consider myself to be a basic user, but that's based on what I actually do with the software rather than what I could do with it and my knowledge of how it works. I only use it as a fairly basic music organiser/player and for that it's close to perfect for my needs. I don't use it to tag files, burn discs or any of that other stuff.