Any Long time MediaMonkey Users?

[Whin2000]

Hello,

As a MediaMonkey user myself, I am curious about the application's users. I am aware that there are alternatives like MusicBee. If you are a long time user of MediaMonkey, what kept you or prevented you from switching to another Music Player/Manager after all these years.

What do you like and hate about MediaMonkey?

[Erwin Hanzl]

Hello too,

After a long search for a media player/management program, I decided on MediaMonkey4 in 2011.
Before that I tested VLC, MusicBee and a few others.

I still use the 4 version today for the following reasons:
1. There are a variety of add-ons for this, of which I use around 10.
2. Script language is VBScript.

I myself have read up on VBScript and am able to optimize or rewrite existing scripts for my purposes such as:
Playlist Manager, CustomFieldsTagger or DiscogsTagger.
A music manager program without these three add-ons is out of the question for me.

I don't want to comment on MediaMonkey5.
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Nach längerer Suche nach einem MediaPlayer/Verwaltungsprogramm habe ich mich im Jahre 2011 für MediaMonkey4 entschieden.
Davor habe Ich VLC, MusicBee und einige weitere getestet.

Auch heut nutze ich noch die 4er Version aus folgenden Gründen:
1. es gibt dafür eine vielzahl an AddOns, wovon ich ca. 10 nutze.
2. Script Spache ist VBScript.

Ich selbst habe mich in VBScript eingelesen und bin in der Lage, bestehende Scripts für meine Zwecke zu optimieren oder umzuschreiben wie z.B.: Playlistmanager, CustomFieldsTagger oder DiscogsTagger.
Ein Musikmanager-Programm ohne diese drei AddOns kommet für mich nicht in Frage.

Über MediaMonkey5 möchte ich keinen Kommentar abgeben.

[Snofru]

I am using MediaMonkey for 7 years now. I like how I can organize my music collection, especially I like what can be done with Auto-Playlists. What I like most about it is the ability to sync with my mobile devices, including getting back play counts to my main database on the PC.

[charlieMOGUL]

I'm a paid user since 2005 - wowee, that's 18 years already

I use version 4 to organize and constantly prune my music library: Tagging, automated playlists, and playlist management. Over the years I've tried version 5 a few times, but I keep on coming back for 4. It's relatively stable (although somewhat slow with a large library), and it seems to still have more tagging possibilities and extensions than what 5 currently offers.
5 seems to be centered around the concept of a media player. I like MediaMonkey as a music library manager.

[gronk mctruck]

Am a music collector. Been using MediaMonkey since 2019. I asked and was then told that MediaMonkey was designed for 50,000 entries. Right now, I have over 147,000 music file entries and it works fine except for:
1) On occasions, it can get "lost" and stop working - I assume a volume related issue as I am exceeding some inherent design constraint. Using Windows 10. Just restart and it works OK.
2) With such a large database, it can longer to update entries i.e. minutes.
Otherwise it works really well. To get the best benefit, I rebuilt my directory and file naming structure around MediaMonkey. I also use Mp3tag free software to pad out the file descriptive data fields so that album names, artist names and song/album/concert titles are accurately maintained and displayed. Both changes helps me quickly identify and fix mis-filed entries.
Great product so I signed up for Gold License.

[Vlad1]

I started using MM in 2006 (version 2 at that time). My first use case was transferring my music to ipod. I was looking for alternatives to itunes (which I tried to use, but it was a huge and almost unusable monster). I think starting from MM 3, it became my main music organizer and player on PC. MM 3 was doing everything I needed.

An upgrade to MM 4 did not look at me as an improvement, but I had to make it, because MM 3 no longer synchronized with new ipods. In fact every time I bought a new ipod or upgraded its firmware, I had to upgrade to the latest version of MM - older versions no longer were able to work with new ipods.

I was probably one of the last users of ipod classic in the world - continued to use it long after Apple stopped making new versions. But eventually I gave up on ipods. Experimented a little with different mp3 players, did not find any I liked. These days I keep my music on an Android phone. Transferring music to Android does not require any dedicated programs, but I continue to use MM as my PC music organizer. I no longer have reasons to upgrade to latest versions, so I am still on MM4.

MM does almost all things pretty well. One thing I am dreading however is transferring my music library to a new PC. I did it twice so far. Once I managed to save the library, and the other time I gave up on it and re-scanned my music on the new PC anew, losing play counts and last played timestamp (which were important for some of my playlists). It is really a shame that MM authors cannot make this process more user-friendly. I recently bought a new PC where I need to transfer all my stuff. Did not do it yet, using it for now side-by-side with my old PC. But one day soon I will have to take the plunge and transfer my music collection. I read that MM5 made it a little bit easier, so maybe it would be a reason to upgrade MM version too.

[Lowlander]

Transferring has been made easier with MediaMonkey 5 (if Paths remain the same): https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index. ... w_computer

[tommytornado]

I've been using MediaMonkey for donkey's years now. I started with a gold license for version 4, and a couple of years ago when they discontinued that and brought out 5 I got a gold icense for that too. I also have the full paid android version for the extra functionality and ability to WiFi sync.

Now they've announced that 5 is discontinued and version 2024 is announced I'm faced with another upgrade to either gold or lifetime.

Version 5 was terrible compared to verion 4 - buggy as hell and slow, so it's very disappointing that the effort hasn't been put into improving it for the paid users, and instead whatever this version 2024 is I now have to pay again.

So I won't be upgrading to a new version and instead I'll be looking for an alternative to MM, after many loyal years as a paid customer.

Is anyone facing the same situation and if so what alternatives have you discovered?

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey 2024 is a direct update to MediaMonkey 5, and contains 500 fixes to MediaMonkey 5.

If you come across any issues please report them, so that they can be fixed: viewtopic.php?t=86643

[Jurg]

I bought a lifetime gold license in 2007. I won't embarrass anyone by saying how much it cost. At the time I used it to organise my MP3 collection and edit metadata etc.

Not long afterwards my ageing Creative Labs MP3 player stopped working. I bought an iPod, and mostly used iTunes for a few years.

I got through 3 iPods - my first stopped working, my second was stolen. After my third stopped working I bought a phone with enough capacity to hold my MP3s. As my music collection was on iTunes, I looked for apps that would work with iTunes. I chose iSyncr and Rocket Player. These worked well for a couple of years, but the syncing became increasingly buggy.

I started looking around for the best alternative to iTunes that synced with Android, saw a couple of recommendations for MediaMonkey, and remembered that I already had a licence

I've been using MMW & MMA to sync my PC and Android phones for a few years now, and overall have been pretty happy. It definitely helps to have the online support community, and the developers are more responsive to bug reports etc than most of their competitors.

[TheEmpathicEar]

I got a Lifetime Gold License to use MM5 in the beginning of 2020 [just before Pandemic]. At the same time, I got MMA Pro. "All in" https://www.mediamonkey.com/download has the available versions.
Perhaps @Lowlander could confirm for me? Or, explain further?

[Lowlander]

Confirm what? That Windows and Android are the only available MediaMonkey's clients at this point? That's true.

[TheEmpathicEar]

Terminology, is I was asking about

[BlitzKrieg47]

I've been using MediaMonkey since 2005. Never looked elsewhere since then.

I was forced to find MediaMonkey in 2005 after YaHoo! bought out and destroyed my initial player, Musicmatch Jukebox.
I had a lifetime license with Musicmatch Jukebox acquired circa 2000 and absolutely loved the program, but after Yahoo took over, they forced updates that inserted commercials into our playlists and later threatened to hold mp3 songs hostage unless you bought the DRM files from their new service. Yahoo later tried to force Jukebox users to join their Yahoo! Music service by killing MusicMatch Jukebox in a final update.... YaHoo! - more like Yah-Poo!

Anyway, MediaMonkey was the most similar product to MMJukebox at the time and it does what I want it to do with tagging, organization and auto playlist control. I just hope they never sell out! Loyal Lifetime Gold user since Oct 2007. I do recommend Lifetime if you don't already have it!

[rcac]

I have used Media Monkey for about 20 years. I finally changed to 5 on my PCs. I never had it totally fail but this upgrade to my Lifetime Gold 5 has been a mistake. They are somehow asking for upgrade buy if you have installed 5 more than a year ago. My Lifetime had been about 2.5 years. And it applying the upgrade lost my license and I couldn't write in again. So I had to uninstall the upgrade 2024 and revert back to my previous version 5. Did somebody come in and buy MM? And now they running business different like corporate raiders? It may be time to start looking for another manager.