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Weatherman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:34 pm "Which is better, is a personal evaluation."

Which is precisely the point of my original request. How can we evaluate when we don't know what it does, how it does it, what's left in from MM4 and what is left out?

dtsig wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:20 pm

Weatherman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:34 pm "Which is better, is a personal evaluation."

Which is precisely the point of my original request. How can we evaluate when we don't know what it does, how it does it, what's left in from MM4 and what is left out?

Try it ... that is how you will know what it does

Weatherman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:21 am MM5 will require a new license fee. MM4 Gold users will not have a free upgrade. Therefore, simply saying "try it", as if it was the customer's job to search, to experiment, to discover, without any explanation or guidance from the vendor, is hardly the most attractive advertising method or a great incentive.

Weatherman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:21 amMM5 will require a new license fee. MM4 Gold users will not have a free upgrade.

berni wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:06 am I have the Lifetime version of MM 4 and I'm enthusiastic about MM 5. So there was no question that I would buy a Lifetime version for it too, although it wasn't necessary. Such a program does a lot of work and it needs to be paid and the price with a discount is really very fair.
Thanks for the very good work, berni

rusty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:06 pm I personally find MM5 to be a big step forward for many of the reasons described in the what's new link that Lowlander shared (but then I'm biased) . Once we release MM5, the website will be updated and there'll be more marketing info about MM5. The main reason for continuing with MM4 would be if you depend on certain addons that aren't yet available on MM5.

To answer your questions:
- Is MM5 an upgrade of MM4 or a different product? It's an upgrade, that includes major rewrites.
What can MM5 do that MM4 cannot do - and vice versa. Please se the what's new document linked above.
- Which version is better for the audiophile who wants to simply listen? Both work fine.
- Which version is better for the compulsive chronologer of stats? MM5 has improved metadata management functionality / lookup tools.
- Which version is most customisable? Both are very customizable through addons. ATM, there are more addons for MM4 than for MM5, but we expect this to change with tim.
- Which plugins and scripts are common to both versions and which aren't? The addons site is organized to show which addons are MM4-only, which are common to both, and which are MM5 only.

What I want to remind anyone seeing this thread is that:
1) Anyone who has bought a Lifetime Gold license can continue using it with MM5
2) Anyone who has bought a 4.x Gold license from 2020+ will get a free upgrade to MM5
3) Anyone who bought a 4.x Gold license earlier is eligible for a major discount
4) Although MM4 will not be regularly updated after MM5 is released, you can continue using it

And if you do decide to upgrade to MM5, thanks for supporting the ongoing development of MediaMonkey!

-Rusty

Umm, lifetime means lifetime. Gold Lifetime gives you access to every upgrade along the way. Software companies LOVE to screw you by forcing you pay over and over and for upgrades while they drop support for what you paid for. At least MS has the decency not to charge you for there latest attempt at MONOPOLY with this horrible POS Win 10, the worst OS they ever released, a real ****fest!

"Once we release MM5" SO, what are the big improvements with 5? Maybe you consider us STUPID customers leaving an improvement, because you do not answer your own posted questions?! What FEATURES or added function makes the customers life better and 5 superior according to your "unbiased" MM view?