Re: MediaMonkey for Windows 8 Metro App
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:43 pm
I am all for mediamonkey integration into Windows 8 store...
However, I don't think a full version of mediamonkey is really needed. Just a cloud player. Most people with windows RT devices also have a more powerful computer for organizing their music. Surface looks pretty cool and it has great productivity which will make it more than just a coffee table decoration, but it just isnt powerful enough to scroll through thousands of songs and run programs like mediamonkey. My 2 year old $500 laptop lags with mediamonkey, and surface seems to have around the same capabilities as it after playing with it in store for 30 minutes or so.
Instead we need some gorgeous cloud players for windows phone 8, windows 8 store, and in HTML5 for browsers. Right now I barely use mediamonkey... I just use to organize playlists. Then I export it to grooveshark with the add-on I made (in my sig). I play most of my music via phone, tablet, laptop, and various other peoples browsers. I sometimes play it off my PC, but out of habit I will often still use grooveshark at that point. Mediamonkey needs more cloud connectivity, it needs to look good, be fast, and easy to set up. To be honest, I see mediamonkey of being a product of the 2000's.
It is unable to keep up with the new ways of listening to music. I still use it because I have an obsession with organization and playlists, but it has become unpractical because it doesn't play nice and pretty enough with my devices.
However, I don't think a full version of mediamonkey is really needed. Just a cloud player. Most people with windows RT devices also have a more powerful computer for organizing their music. Surface looks pretty cool and it has great productivity which will make it more than just a coffee table decoration, but it just isnt powerful enough to scroll through thousands of songs and run programs like mediamonkey. My 2 year old $500 laptop lags with mediamonkey, and surface seems to have around the same capabilities as it after playing with it in store for 30 minutes or so.
Instead we need some gorgeous cloud players for windows phone 8, windows 8 store, and in HTML5 for browsers. Right now I barely use mediamonkey... I just use to organize playlists. Then I export it to grooveshark with the add-on I made (in my sig). I play most of my music via phone, tablet, laptop, and various other peoples browsers. I sometimes play it off my PC, but out of habit I will often still use grooveshark at that point. Mediamonkey needs more cloud connectivity, it needs to look good, be fast, and easy to set up. To be honest, I see mediamonkey of being a product of the 2000's.
It is unable to keep up with the new ways of listening to music. I still use it because I have an obsession with organization and playlists, but it has become unpractical because it doesn't play nice and pretty enough with my devices.
Good points.botijo wrote:In my humble opinion, it looks like the sensible way to go forward is to have a desktop applicacion and a tablet "app". The desktop application will be our beloved MediaMonkey as we know it today. I cannot think of any way to port all of the functionality of MM into the app without making a big mess on a tablet (I will be glad to be proven wrong!). So I hope the app would be some sort of player, fairly similar to the player available with Windows 8 at the moment. Maybe the desktop version and the app can comunicate via a custom Window Library when you work on the same PC or via synchronization, probably WiFi, when you work with a tablet.
