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Hello all,

As many of you may be aware, MediaMonkey 5 is nearing release. For those of you who rely on MediaMonkey 4 addons, since they are not backwards-compatible, I'll be working to help developers/authors port their addons to MediaMonkey 5. Additionally, in the case of addons whose authors are no longer active and cannot continue support, we may create new MediaMonkey 5 addons to provide similar features. We don't want anyone to be stuck using MediaMonkey 4 just because they depend on unsupported addons.

What I'm asking for in this thread is your "must have" and "nice to have" addon features for MM5, to help me prioritize these efforts. As an example of the info l am asking for, take a look at this post: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=97703

Thanks!

I'm missing the ability to copy tags from and delete a low quality with a high quality copy from Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix. This includes Play History and Playlist transfer from old to new copy (these 2 are what I'm really after, Added would be a bonus).

The scripts I use almost daily that I'm worried aren't going to available in MM5 are below.

Calculate Cover Size

Song Previewer

Add To Library context item

You can D&D files onto a main Collection (like Music) to add them to the Library.

Absolutely MonkeyFlow and MonkeyRok. Both essential (as I've mentioned in other threads).

MonkeyRok

Lyrics & Comment Viewer

RegExpReplace

MagicNodes

Something to help background download the artwork for Composers and Publishers - including import from previous installations.

Some more tools for managing Playlists.

Thanks a lot, drakinite that you are taking care of addons for MM5! Really highly appreciated!

Must-have:
Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix (Difficult for me to imagine switching to MM5 without it, even though I have lifetime)

Would be highly appreciated:
Custom Report
RegExp Find & Replace

Lowlander wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:11 pm You can D&D files onto a main Collection (like Music) to add them to the Library.

It's just simpler and it's become the only way I add files at this point, would definitely be missed by me.

Thank you, everyone, for your input!
I will be working on Duplicate Find & Fix first, because that one has been the most requested so far. If anyone has additional input in response to the following questions, I would greatly appreciate it: viewtopic.php?p=476815#p476815

The only one I use on a very regular basis: Add/Remove PlayStat

The PlaylistManager is important to me. Should be standard in a Music Management System.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=64499

MagicNodes => I'm not going anywhere without this one!!
Backup
Custom Report
Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix
Clear Now Playing Button
Tagging Inconsistencies
Update Location of Files in Database

Backup is now available from MediaMonkey itself: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... y_Database

Changing DriveID (like Update Location of Files in Database provides) is now something you can do directly in MediaMonkey: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sign_Drive and there is still Locate Moved/Missing Files as well: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sing_Files

Clear Now Playing can be done using 3 dot menu in Playing and selecting Clear: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... ying_queue

Lowlander wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:10 pm Backup is now available from MediaMonkey itself: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... y_Database

Awesome. I can't find it now, but there was a page showing which MM4 addons are compatible with MM5 - maybe you should add there a list of MM4 feature-based extensions that are now built directly into MM5.

Lowlander wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:10 pm Changing DriveID (like Update Location of Files in Database provides) is now something you can do directly in MediaMonkey: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sign_Drive and there is still Locate Moved/Missing Files as well: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... sing_Files

Did you perhaps mean "is now something you can do directly in MediaMonkey" and not "not something..."?

Lowlander wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:10 pm Clear Now Playing can be done using 3 dot menu in Playing and selecting Clear: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... ying_queue

The whole purpose of the addon is to improve user experience by reducing the number of clicks to one. For common actions it is really unpleasant have to dig through menus.

Thank you.