What are your addon Must-Haves?

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Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by telecore » Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:54 am

Thanks - I did not know about this feature - very helpful

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by Lowlander » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:57 am

Update location has a build in function in MM5: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sign_Drive

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by telecore » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:22 am

For home listening, this add-on is the most important to me - Export to iTunes XML - so that I can use Airplay:
Alternatively, if MM5 could get remote functionality and reliability to rival iTunes + iTunes remote, then I wouldn't need it

Also - some way to easily defeat the volume ID used for file locations: Move Device Content or similar (see below)
For me, I would prefer MM5 to just use a drive letter / path as I have duplicated my files at home and work - any database update requires an extra step to update the file locations

Sometimes I use this as a kind of backup: Export all Playlists

This one is kind of redundant to Move Device Content: Update Location of Files in Database but I also have it installed in MM4

One add-on that I use a lot is one that I wrote for both MM4 and now MM5 - it removes duplicates from playlists based on artist-title (with preference for the highest rating and bitrate) and creates a new manual playlist with the same name plus "*" on the end - very handy for "pruning" playlists

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by FLWB » Wed Sep 07, 2022 5:09 am

The two that are messing me up the most that I am missing are:
  • Custom Fields Tagger (CustomFieldsTagger v1.0.3 by Steegy)
  • Magic Nodes by Zvezdan Dimitrijevic
I use Grouping for sub-genres and both of those add-ons made adding tags and filtering much more manageable. Now my Groupings are just a string of semi-colon separated values with little to no filtering.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by Clouseau » Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:36 pm

For me, here are my MM4 functionality plugins needed before moving to MM5:

...used Daily
  • TweakMonkey by The MediaMonkey Community
  • Automatic Track Numbering (AutoIncTrackNumbers by ???)
  • Automatic Case check/fix (TitleCase.vbs by Risser)
  • Custom Fields Tagger (CustomFieldsTagger v1.0.3 by Steegy)
  • Move Files (MoveFiles 1.1.J by trixmoto)
  • Tag from Text File (TagsFromTagList by ???)


...used Occasionally:
  • Switch or Copy Fields (SwitchOrCopyFields v1.0 by Steegy aka RC & ExtractFields v0.1.4 by Steegy)
  • Replace Underscore (KillUnderscore by ???)
  • Cue Reader (CueReader 5.6 by trixmoto)
  • Split Artist Title (SplitArtistTitle 2.0 by trixmoto)
  • Add Tracks to Playlist (Add Currently Playing/Selected Track(s) to Playlist by Zvezdan Dimitrijevic)
  • SQL Viewer/Editor (SQL Viewer by Bex)


... and the "nice-to-have's":
  • More from the same (Toolbar_MoreFromTheSame v1.1 by Steegy aka RC)
  • Magic Nodes by Zvezdan Dimitrijevic
  • Scrobbling (LastFM, ???)


... and the "non-deal-killer's":
  • Missing Album Art (MissingAlbumArt 2.0 by trixmoto)
  • Web Search (WebSearch Panels by jn)
  • Bomb Button


What I really wish for is a return to scraping album info from Amazon. Way back when that worked soooo well, now it's really hit-and-miss. A real SQL editing plugin would be awesome; so many oddball updates can be done that way (can also blow up your database if not careful, so take warning). Also, the web search panels (which use IE) would be nice to re-create to search for album art that can be dragged right in place, and can set up a lookup to AllMusic.com and similar to identify grouping and genre.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by Lowlander » Thu Feb 03, 2022 1:13 pm

The reason they're incompatible is that MediaMonkey 5 moved to modern cross-platform technologies, while MediaMonkey 4 and older rely on outdated Microsoft only solutions. It's never fun to leave the old behind, but it was a necessary thing to be able to move into the future and keep up-to-date with new versions of Windows and other OS's as well.
MediaMonkey 5 has also been a long time in development giving anyone the chance to update Addons or create new ones for MediaMonkey 5 if they wished to do so. It will take time for new developers to create Addons for MediaMonkey 5, just like the MediaMonkey 4 and older Addons didn't happen overnight.

However change like this is never fun if you're that invested into something. So to accommodate user, MediaMonkey 4 & 5 can run alongside each other and a MediaMonkey 5 License is valid for MediaMonkey 4 too.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by BionicRooster » Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:18 pm

I will not move off of MM4 until the following addons are updated to MM5 or replaced by similar functionality.
Advanced Duplicate Find and Fix
MonkeyRok
RegExp Find and Replace
Lyricator
Last.fm Scrobbler
Case and Leading Zero Checker
AutoRateAccurate

Who had the genius idea of "Let's make all of these wonderful addons incompatible and release the new version before they can be updated to our new platform!"
As a lifetime subscriber, I am pissed off.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by richiefinger » Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:05 am

Not sure if right place to ask for this:

Would like to see Title/Artist/Summary on top of the pop up properties box.

My Scenario is this.
I have a huge collection of DJ mixes that I want to add text or art to.
The text and art is different for every track/mix and comes for various sources, no way to automate it.
The text is too big to go in comment field.
The easiest way to do this is to right click on the track and open the pop up properties box.
I cut and paste the text I want and copy it into the Lyrics field.
Once done I use "previous/next" to go to the next track and paste in the relevant text.
When you are in "basic" page of the properties box you can see what track you are dealing with, when you are in any other page you can not tell what track you are dealing with.
Yes I know its highlighted in the main MM browser but I can not see the browser because its covered with the popup box and my webpages Im copying text/art from.
The properties popup box says "File Properties" (white on orange) on the top of the box, would be great if it could have the current title/artist etc on that line too.
I also use this workflow for adding artwork, same problem.
I use multiple monitors but still don't have space for MM Browser to be visible :)
Pretty niche request I know :)
Even another very small popup box displaying currently highlighted track that I could move around the screen would also solve the problem

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by dypsis » Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:30 am

Peke wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 9:28 pm Hi,
dypsis wrote: Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:38 pm A major strength of MediaMonkey has always been its addons.
But I think it's going to take some time for that to be true for MM5.
I really hope that it will not take as long it MM4 got its reputation (15+ years), but much much less time.
👍

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by iceblinklk » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:48 pm

Another vote for Add/Remove Playstat. I'm feeling so disappointed to have installed MM5 and to discover Add/Remove Playstat is no longer available as an addon.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by Peke » Sun Dec 26, 2021 9:28 pm

Hi,
dypsis wrote: Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:38 pm A major strength of MediaMonkey has always been its addons.
But I think it's going to take some time for that to be true for MM5.
I really hope that it will not take as long it MM4 got its reputation (15+ years), but much much less time.

I'll take this opportunity to ask if you have seen any feature in MM that was buggy and we have not fixed it fast enough or it broke few times after our initial fix, let us know as for MM5 we are looking ways to publish urgent fixes more quickly than actuall new build/beta release (not all people like to use Beta versions).

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by dypsis » Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:38 pm

Maxpower wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:37 pm
willyvds wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:34 am I will stick with MM4 as long as Magic Nodes is not available.
Also Calculate Cover Size, Add/Remove Playstat and Tagging Inconsistencies are highly appreciated.
^^ This. Just upgraded to v5, uninstalled v4.0 before realising this add-on is no longer supported. :-(

Please can we have this back in v5? Whaaaaaaaa
A major strength of MediaMonkey has always been its addons.
But I think it's going to take some time for that to be true for MM5.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by Maxpower » Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:37 pm

willyvds wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:34 am I will stick with MM4 as long as Magic Nodes is not available.
Also Calculate Cover Size, Add/Remove Playstat and Tagging Inconsistencies are highly appreciated.
^^ This. Just upgraded to v5, uninstalled v4.0 before realising this add-on is no longer supported. :-(

Please can we have this back in v5? Whaaaaaaaa

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by willyvds » Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:34 am

I will stick with MM4 as long as Magic Nodes is not available.
Also Calculate Cover Size, Add/Remove Playstat and Tagging Inconsistencies are highly appreciated.

Re: What are your addon Must-Haves?

by wrparks » Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:16 am

Add/Remove PlayStat think last version was 1.3.1 allows update to last played and changes play count -- use it all the time in MM4 now incompatible with MM5

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