by RalphieBoy » Sun May 09, 2004 2:06 pm
Hi, here are my suggestions for how Media Monkey could be enhanced, specifically with regard to playlists and playlist management...
I don't know why, but for all the MP3 software products I've tried, playlist management seems to be an afterthought, if thought of at all. Since MediaMonkey seems to be a happening and responsive product, I thought I'd air my views here...
1. Offer a checkbox/toggle option that says, "when adding new songs to a playlist, I [do / do not] want to allow duplicates". Simple, yeah? Just scan to see if the file is already there before adding it. That alone would help tremendously, as I could always "add" stuff to a list, just to make sure it's there, without worrying about duplicates...
2. Offer a chance to clean up playlists to remove files that no longer exist. With all the options for MP3 tag cleanup, renaming files based on tags, etc, playlists often become out of sync and useless. At least this would help a little, because some programs / devices that use playlists are pretty stupid, and freak out if a song in the list doesn't exist.
3. And this is the important one: When I highlight a playlist, I want the songs that are in the playlist to be highlighted IN MY LIBRARY. That way, I can graphically SEE which songs are in the playlist. I don't want to simply be shown a linear list of 1,000 songs, that I have to scroll through with a fine-tooth comb to make sense of.
4. Of course, to make the above useful, when selected playlist's songs are highlighted in the library, you should be able to right-click on the highlighted songs and say "Remove from Playlist", or right-click on an unselected song (or artist/album, of course) and say "Add to Playlist".
5. Allow a feature that takes one (or all) playlists, and performs a path substitution. This would help when I try to copy my playlists to my portable MP3 jukebox. The jukebox supports playlists, but the root of the song path ends up being different than on my home computer, and they won't work unless I open the playlist in a text editor and perform a "Replace All" before transferring them.
Thanks for letting me vent. All I know is that I'm tired of managing my playlists with freakin' Notepad. I'm also tired of having read-only, unmanageable, non-hierarchical views of a playlist that might have 1,000 songs in it. Why can't I manage my playlists by cross-correlating against my hierarchical library display?
If anyone knows of a program that can do all this, please e-mail me at
ralph@edington.com.
Cheers!
Hi, here are my suggestions for how Media Monkey could be enhanced, specifically with regard to playlists and playlist management...
I don't know why, but for all the MP3 software products I've tried, playlist management seems to be an afterthought, if thought of at all. Since MediaMonkey seems to be a happening and responsive product, I thought I'd air my views here...
1. Offer a checkbox/toggle option that says, "when adding new songs to a playlist, I [do / do not] want to allow duplicates". Simple, yeah? Just scan to see if the file is already there before adding it. That alone would help tremendously, as I could always "add" stuff to a list, just to make sure it's there, without worrying about duplicates...
2. Offer a chance to clean up playlists to remove files that no longer exist. With all the options for MP3 tag cleanup, renaming files based on tags, etc, playlists often become out of sync and useless. At least this would help a little, because some programs / devices that use playlists are pretty stupid, and freak out if a song in the list doesn't exist.
3. And this is the important one: When I highlight a playlist, I want the songs that are in the playlist to be highlighted IN MY LIBRARY. That way, I can graphically SEE which songs are in the playlist. I don't want to simply be shown a linear list of 1,000 songs, that I have to scroll through with a fine-tooth comb to make sense of.
4. Of course, to make the above useful, when selected playlist's songs are highlighted in the library, you should be able to right-click on the highlighted songs and say "Remove from Playlist", or right-click on an unselected song (or artist/album, of course) and say "Add to Playlist".
5. Allow a feature that takes one (or all) playlists, and performs a path substitution. This would help when I try to copy my playlists to my portable MP3 jukebox. The jukebox supports playlists, but the root of the song path ends up being different than on my home computer, and they won't work unless I open the playlist in a text editor and perform a "Replace All" before transferring them.
Thanks for letting me vent. All I know is that I'm tired of managing my playlists with freakin' Notepad. I'm also tired of having read-only, unmanageable, non-hierarchical views of a playlist that might have 1,000 songs in it. Why can't I manage my playlists by cross-correlating against my hierarchical library display?
If anyone knows of a program that can do all this, please e-mail me at ralph@edington.com.
Cheers!