Lowlander, I noticed that elsewhere you recommended MM 5 to someone because of its database repair features

Is this something I should try? Is it just a matter of doing a Complete Optimization as before?

Thanks

Entire Library had been enabled and I was working off of the Artist and Album Artist nodes under Entire Library throughout my struggles here...

no luck with 4.1.25 beta however, now (as per my observation above that the Artist drop down did work), the Artist drop down does not show ! Various Artists ! anymore One other observation: for quite a while after the initial problem, I used a variation: ! Various Artists ! [See Comment] -- this dis...

Yes there are numerous albums in the library that use this item (over 25K files)

! Various Artists ! The exclamation marks are how I push this item to the top of the Album Artist drop-down list in the Album Artist box on the Properties sheet For a long time, this item did appear atop the Album Artist drop-down list, but about a year ago it disappeared It reappeared briefly once ...

AlanH, Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, it did not work for me...

4.1.24.1883 2 wma files 25 mp3 files 150 mp4 files The info in the unsynchronizable file names seems to be identical to that in their tags (most of them have Album Artist highlighted in Yellow) These files are not new. They have not turned up before when searching for Unsynchronized Files. They have...

I have 180 tags that turn up when I search for unsynchronized tag via Files to Edit.
I select them and synchronize them and nothing happens: when I search for them again, they are all still there

you're right
I had a few installs of MM from the troubleshooting efforts for my last crisis. I cleared all this out and created a new start icon. Seems 4.1.24 is now reliably installed and so far, my editing problems are gone

Thanks

this is very strange to me, but I seem to have reverted again to MM 4.1.19 (this is now the 3rd flawed attempt to install MM 4.1.24) I am initially letting install open MM when finished. I see that 4.1.21 is running. I then see that the editing problem is solved. After the first restart the old vers...

I CAN select a spot in a line of text and type in edits or use backspace and other such keys

I CANNOT cut or paste properly except in the Comments box

spoke too soon. closed and reopened MM and problem recurred I go to the artist text box and select part of the text there. this selection is highlighted. WHEN I RIGHT CLICK, THE WHOLE OF THE TEXT IN THE BOX GRAYS OUT as the context menu pops up If then I select CUT from this menu, the entire line is...

reinstall was successful
problem is solved
will see for how long this time...

I will try better to explain my problem if I need to follow up with this
Thanks

I am seeking to use MediaMonkey_4.1.24.1883 however I cannot seem to install over 4.1.19. Twice now, I have installed .24 yet the Help/About tab shows .19 running Perhaps I do not have the correct installation file. The size of MediaMonkey_4.1.24.1883.exe that I am trying to install: 15.4 MB (16,249...

I have also sent 20+ error reports as prompted just before the crash