winterminute wrote:The reason I'm looking to replace JRMC with MM is because of the following:

1) Their attitude on the forums. If you disagree with them, they'll either tell you its your fault, ignore you, or just delete your post.

Yeah, I've been in that situation myself. I love the folks here, so MM gets my money and love.

J.River is a POS software. First they charge you again and again FOR LIFE. Whenever they need new money (the company may go belly up anytime they use up their intial funding, I believe from the owner's father) they simply announce a new release and ask you to pay again. Then discontinue support for the version you bought. If you complain on their forum named Interact (which would be better named INTERCEPT) they will just change what you post. Not even stating the post has been edited by their Nazi lack owner Jim Hillegass. They (Jim Hillegass) has so infuriated me over the years I posted a video to Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltoQwSpHQBA

chrisjj wrote:I have the same requirement as you and have succeeded in setting up MM sync to folder. I used the USBMass1.DLL but since it cannot target a folder only a drive, I also used at SUBST drive.

Another possible workaround is the Virtual Recording CD by Peke http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 12#p359512 .

For that one place you should wait for MM4.0 which will have improvements in that field.

EDIT: this happen wen you do not read whole topic

For me Meedios would be cool: http://meedios.com (but it is still in alpha).

If you're looking for a MM<->iTunes<->and apple device the checkout my plugin http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=45713

I'm also considering apply my MM device plugin knowledge into developing other plugins to achieve similar efffects. I'm considering

• Another MM instance on another PC
• XBMC

I'd welcome other suggestions.

Regards
Mark

winterminute wrote:The one place where it seems that JRMC has the edge of MM is around metadata, tagging, etc. I can easily extend the schema to add my custom fields (including support for multi-valued fields), plus I can add support for almost any tag that exists in my files.

I believe MM may see some improvement in this area come v4.0.

The reason I'm looking to replace JRMC with MM is because of the following:

1) Their attitude on the forums. If you disagree with them, they'll either tell you its your fault, ignore you, or just delete your post. In today's world, JRMC is an expensive piece of software, so I expect more.

2) They're trying to wage a war against Apple based on principals by not offering iPod/iPhone support. In the end, Apple continues to make lots of money and JRMC"s users get nothing. Nobody's saying that Apple makes it easy, but you either respond to the needs of your users or you don't.

3) The future direction of the product seems to indicate that they'd rather become a 10FT Media Center (ala Windows Media Center, Boxee, etc). I have no use for that, I just need a killer music manager. I'm running v12, but v13 and v14 don't see as focused on music so I haven't upgraded.

The one place where it seems that JRMC has the edge of MM is around metadata, tagging, etc. I can easily extend the schema to add my custom fields (including support for multi-valued fields), plus I can add support for almost any tag that exists in my files.

FYI I'm not sure it is relevant but Subst drive in case it is scanned to MM library it will duplicate Drive IDs which can/will make issues with library and that could be the possible reason for issues.

Mizery_Made wrote:While the fact only you, Nohitter & Jiri have commented on its reproducibility doesn't necessarily indicate that no-one can reproduce

Thanks for the confirmation.

chrisjj wrote:At http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5531 jiri wrote

> I can't reproduce, playlists on a SUBSTed drive are always properly deleted upon synchronization.

That shows that Jiri (a developer) was unable to reproduce. While the fact only you, Nohitter & Jiri have commented on its reproducibility doesn't necessarily indicate that no-one can reproduce, the lack of anyone else reporting your same findings in there suggests that no-one (other than you) were able to reproduce and reported.

chrisjj wrote:Outstanding MM bugs ...

Including corrupt output files, suspected cause: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 50#p245050

That only shows you were unable to reproduce it. I appreciate your effort on this problem, but it doesn't show no-one can reproduce it. I'd guess the number even using this feature is tiny.

chrisjj wrote:

nohitter151 wrote:Reported by you and not reproducible by anyone else, keep in mind.

I see no evidence it is not reproducible by anyone else.

http://mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ed#p198553

nohitter151 wrote:Reported by you and not reproducible by anyone else, keep in mind.

I see no evidence it is not reproducible by anyone else.