Mediamonkey alternative

[theta_wave]

Unless I am mistaken Monkey - as I have stated before - is the only media player that allows you to scan CD's without downloading the tracks and retains the information.

There are plenty of other mediaplayers out there that can do this well enough: foobar2000k, videolan, hell even microsoft media player.

You can then export the information to excel or whatever you like and even convert to a pdf or html. Very useful for insurance purposes and for sticking on a mobile device like a phone or hand held so that when you go shopping you don't buy any duplicates.

I agree that mediamonkey is the one player that allows users to do this relatively easily.

I've yet to try out 4.0 I like 3.0 and even used 2.0 today to restore all my lost files.

And finally: the folks on here have been great not just with the artwork of which many have spent countless hours designing but also the help and assistance.

Version 3.x is quite possibly my favorite music manager of all time. You might change your tune when you install the latest 4.x and experience its bugs first hand; also, it will give you the proper frame of reference to those who are less than pleased with the transition. In my experience, the transition from 2.x to 3.x wasn't as disconcerting. I guess changing database backends is not as nearly as drastic as adding support for other media files, streaming options, etc.

I can't wait for a decent Windows tablet - Windows 8.0 That's when the cheeky Monkey will come in to its own.

I hope Microsoft heard the chorus of cries from angry GNOME users when GNOME abandoned the traditional desktop experience to one that is based purely on tablet use patterns.

[tinana]

Version 3.x is quite possibly my favorite music manager of all time

Yes, I agree, to the point that I'm thinking I'd like to downgrade from MM4 to 3.

[windcrest77]

Unless I am mistaken Monkey - as I have stated before - is the only media player that allows you to scan CD's without downloading the tracks and retains the information.

There are plenty of other mediaplayers out there that can do this well enough: foobar2000k, videolan, hell even microsoft media player.

You can then export the information to excel or whatever you like and even convert to a pdf or html. Very useful for insurance purposes and for sticking on a mobile device like a phone or hand held so that when you go shopping you don't buy any duplicates.

I agree that mediamonkey is the one player that allows users to do this relatively easily.

I've yet to try out 4.0 I like 3.0 and even used 2.0 today to restore all my lost files.

And finally: the folks on here have been great not just with the artwork of which many have spent countless hours designing but also the help and assistance.

Version 3.x is quite possibly my favorite music manager of all time. You might change your tune when you install the latest 4.x and experience its bugs first hand; also, it will give you the proper frame of reference to those who are less than pleased with the transition. In my experience, the transition from 2.x to 3.x wasn't as disconcerting. I guess changing database backends is not as nearly as drastic as adding support for other media files, streaming options, etc.

I can't wait for a decent Windows tablet - Windows 8.0 That's when the cheeky Monkey will come in to its own.

I hope Microsoft heard the chorus of cries from angry GNOME users when GNOME abandoned the traditional desktop experience to one that is based purely on tablet use patterns.

Microsoft did hear that and Windows 8 can operate in both a touch centric mode or in the usual mouse/keyboard mode. They cant throw out the whole corporate and non-corporate user base that likes to use a mouse and the millions of applications in use in every industry that uses a keyboard.

I saw some demos and it is pretty slick, but devlopers will have to learn HTML5 to get the latest "look" and touch behaviors. Also devices must live up to a certain standard for touch gestures to even be supported, Microsoft is reqiring even higher standards from tablet hardware than Android. For example a device must do secure boot and support a minimum of i think 7 gestures. But old "windows forms" and WPF and Silverlight developers can keep going on those api's too. MM4 appears to be a "windows forms" application, I dont think it uses WPF but I could be wrong. The move to HTML5 for non-web user interface development is huge leap though for Win 8. This coincided with IE9 having tied HTML5 directly to the DirectX rendering engine as well as IE9 optimizing the javascript interpreter directly to Intel/AMD machine language. It will be fast, real fast. I'm no expert but I do like to read up on how/why/where MSFT is coming out with a new OS.

[wakeuptheworld]

Why has media monkey stopped being compatible to win7 64 bit

I have tried the correct download and even tried adding no splash that someone had posted.

I do not like my tunes as they require a separate file of your music, that has the habit of removing files at will.

I want MM back

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey is compatible with Windows 7. What problem do you run into?

[Zriordanchary]

I don't think there is an alternative to this.

[MrSinatra]

I think windows 8 SUCKS.

MM otoh, is great. so is winamp and foobar. props to the people running MM to not just summarily delete a thread that attacks in a mostly unconstructive way.