by Mox » Sun Mar 31, 2019 8:45 am
After reading this whole thread, there still doesn't seem to be any clear answer for what is surely a VERY common scenario, and the one that I have – two PC computers (in my case: a desktop and laptop) with media monkey easily kept in sync, including all the basic daily functions one does when using any media software: adding songs, removing songs, rating songs, assigning songs to custom playlists, etc.
Others have mentioned how this is dropdead easy with iTunes, to which I would add "Windows Media Player too." And with some tweaking of settings, it's possible to do this in Winamp as well.
As with these other programs, a well designed piece of software should not require higher-level computer skills to do such a basic function. With these other programs, I don't have to change drive numbers, I don't have to keep a portable drive big enough to manage my 10,000-plus music files being swapped back-and-forth between computers, set up a shared media server (which only works as a solution if the user always has both devices local) etc., etc. All I need with those others is a synchronization process, whether by cloud or local network.
Surely there is (or could be) some way to make MM do this??
NOTE:
A single shared drive on a home network is not the answer, because I (like many others) often use my laptop when I'm nowhere near my home office, so my laptop needs its own solution: its own full instance of MM and my music library.
This is kind of a deal-breaker for me (I'm only learning of this synchronization issue today, after spending the entire weekend getting everything set up to work on my desktop with MM). It's impractical to expect the end-user to not be able to, say, add a song to a playlist on their laptop, but then have to manually remember to do same adjustment to their other computer's MM when they get home from a business trip -- unreasonable when, for every other program in the world, that traveler can easily push a button in a synchronization program like GoodSync or SyncToy to synchronize (or cloud-sync effortlessly via dropbox or OneDrive) to get everything synced up between the 2 devices. There's simply
got to be a way to design MM to do to be cross-device syncable.
And I care because I'm absolutely in love with MM in all other respects. But this fatal flaw is a big deal. It would be like loving a woman
in all other respects, except the fact that she is homicidal. I still wouldn't date her.
After reading this whole thread, there still doesn't seem to be any clear answer for what is surely a VERY common scenario, and the one that I have – two PC computers (in my case: a desktop and laptop) with media monkey easily kept in sync, including all the basic daily functions one does when using any media software: adding songs, removing songs, rating songs, assigning songs to custom playlists, etc.
Others have mentioned how this is dropdead easy with iTunes, to which I would add "Windows Media Player too." And with some tweaking of settings, it's possible to do this in Winamp as well.
As with these other programs, a well designed piece of software should not require higher-level computer skills to do such a basic function. With these other programs, I don't have to change drive numbers, I don't have to keep a portable drive big enough to manage my 10,000-plus music files being swapped back-and-forth between computers, set up a shared media server (which only works as a solution if the user always has both devices local) etc., etc. All I need with those others is a synchronization process, whether by cloud or local network.
Surely there is (or could be) some way to make MM do this??
NOTE: [b]A single shared drive on a home network is not the answer[/b], because I (like many others) often use my laptop when I'm nowhere near my home office, so my laptop needs its own solution: its own full instance of MM and my music library.
This is kind of a deal-breaker for me (I'm only learning of this synchronization issue today, after spending the entire weekend getting everything set up to work on my desktop with MM). It's impractical to expect the end-user to not be able to, say, add a song to a playlist on their laptop, but then have to manually remember to do same adjustment to their other computer's MM when they get home from a business trip -- unreasonable when, for every other program in the world, that traveler can easily push a button in a synchronization program like GoodSync or SyncToy to synchronize (or cloud-sync effortlessly via dropbox or OneDrive) to get everything synced up between the 2 devices. There's simply [i]got [/i]to be a way to design MM to do to be cross-device syncable.
And I care because I'm absolutely in love with MM in all other respects. But this fatal flaw is a big deal. It would be like loving a woman [i]in all other respects[/i], except the fact that she is homicidal. I still wouldn't date her. :-)
