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Coverflow: MediaMonkey vs iTunes

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:40 am
by esoteric
Hey all... I figure this is the best forum, because I'm actually using iTunes at the moment, but referencing MediaMonkey, which I am bouncing back and forth with.

I was using MediaMonkey when I got my IPOD Classic 80 and was liking it, but it was really buggy with the syncing (wrong cover images, incomplete support, etc).

Anyways, I've been using iTunes lately, and while I'm annoyed with the bloat I'm feeling it's *acceptable* at least until the bugs get worked out with MediaMonkey.

My issue is that MediaMonkey synced cover flow really well. Anything that didn't have an album listed (ie: all my "single" mp3's) didn't show up in the coverflow, only my mp3s with a tagged album.

When I sync with iTunes it shows all those single mp3's with artists, even though there is no album tagged.

So. Is there a way to get iTunes to not recognize these single MP3's as albums so they won't show up in coverflow, like Media Monkey is able to? I only want my actual albums (complete or mostly complete) to show up in coverflow.

This has been a difficult one to search for as I'm lost on what terms to use!

Thanks!!!

Re: Coverflow: MediaMonkey vs iTunes

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:24 pm
by Guest
Theoretically, (is that a word..?) you should either make some auto-playlist those gold-users are talking about using string 'album-art: true' or 'available' something like that, and then import THAT playlist to iTunes (for example, save the autoplaylist and open it in iTunes).

the way for free users is (for as far as I know) going to the node of um. 'Files that still have to be changed' -> 'Missing album-art' and moving those files temporarily to another folder, scan the whole computer except for that folder with iTunes and then moving it back. Something like that.
OR just tag all the files with some art :)