Support for video files

[inpariswithyou]

I love MediaMonkey. It's my ideal solution to media metadata and organization, and that's saying a lot. Further, it works perfectly with music files. Sadly I cannot say the same for videos.

I realize MediaMonkey is primarily intended for music, but as support for videos has been included in the program, I wonder if the developers will ever address the problems and concerns video users have with MediaMonkey.

For instance, there has been a bug for a while involving the Actor field that prohibits a user from auto-completing multiple actors in the field. The first completes fine, but the rest do not. I've brought this up before on the forums, and though it seems as if the powers-that-be know about it, it has yet to be addressed.

I'm also curious about integration of some more stable way to keep track of metadata. I know video files do not work the same was mp3s, and so metadata can't be encoded directly into the file. Currently, I have MediaMonkey managing quite a lot of video files, and I'm meticulous in my metadata entry, with actors and release dates and so forth, and half the time I lose half my metadata for no apparent reason. No corruption, no moving of files, nothing. Things just disappear. Or a full release date will dissolve into just a year. (This happens with music, too.)

I'd also really love to see some way to separate the music and video collections, so that types of music genres, for instance, do not mix with types of video genres.

I realize this is a lot to ask, and I am in no way complaining about the product. I'm simply suggesting some avenues for improvement along a route that MediaMonkey seems at least moderately interested in taking. I have searched high and low, through hills and valleys, trying to find a comparable program to MediaMonkey for my video files, and I can't even come close.

[nohitter151]

I'd also really love to see some way to separate the music and video collections, so that types of music genres, for instance, do not mix with types of video genres.

This is already implemented, see "Music" vs "Video" and "TV" collections. (File > Manage collections)

[Lowlander]

I haven't seen any metadata loss (even though I moved some files (and using Locate Moved/Missing)). There is no reason for metadata loss. I do suggest keeping a backup of the DB as it is the only place for video metadata for certain formats: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0