Customizing Collections and Playback Rules

Introduction to Collections

MediaMonkey helps organize your media files into Collections which can be customized to display large numbers of files in a manner most appropriate to the content. Collections are a filtered view of the MediaMonkey Library. For example the default Music Collection will show all files with Type set to Music or Classical Music, whereas the default Classical Music Collection will only contain files with Type set to Classical Music. MediaMonkey Gold users can customize the default Collections as well as create new Collections.

The Entire Library Collection will always show all media files in the MediaMonkey Library. Entire Library is useful to confirm if files are in the MediaMonkey Library as any other Collection may exclude the files based on the Collections Criteria. You can enable the Entire Library Collection under Tools > Options > Collections & Views from the Main Menu.

Customizing Collections

Collections allow you to set which files are included based on Criteria and which sub-nodes the Collection will display in the Media Tree.

To create or edit a Collection, use Tools > Options > Collections & Views from the Main Menu:

1. Use the + button to create a new Collection or select a Collection and use the Edit button to edit a Collection
2. Set the Criteria to set which files from the MediaMonkey Library should be included in the Collection in the Criteria tab
3. Set which sub-nodes should be shown in the Sub-nodes & Views tab

To enable or disable a Collection, use Tools > Options > Collections & Views from the Main Menu:

1. Check the Collection to enable it in the MediaMonkey Media Tree
2. Use the half-check / filled in checkbox to have the Collection appear in the MediaMonkey Media Tree only when it contains files
3. Uncheck it to hide the Collection in the MediaMonkey Media Tree
4. The Entire Library Collection can be enabled/disabled here as well

To change the Type of a file and thus in which Collection it is shown use Properties:

1. Right click on a file or files and select Properties
2. Modify the Type field
3. Click OK

Types

The 'Type' attribute determines how individual files are handled:

• How files are Played:

• Whether Bookmarking is enabled
• Whether Shuffle mode is ignored
• Whether Crossfading is disabled
• Whether Auto-DJ is active

• How files are displayed:

• The fields displayed in the Properties dialog
• The descriptive text for any track that appears in the Player and Now Playing (Summary) column
• The descriptive text for any track that appears in Art Views

• How files are synced:

• What categories they're browsable through on an iPod or other portable device

In MediaMonkey 4, there are 8 hardcoded Types: Music, Podcast, Audiobook, Classical Music, Music Video, Video, TV, and Video Podcast. During the first scan into the Library:

• Audio files are added as Type=Music except

• they're added as 'Audiobook' if Extension=M4B or Genre contains 'Audiobook' or 'Audio Book'
• they're added as 'Podcast' if Genre contains 'Podcast'
• they're added as 'Classical Music' if Genre contains 'Classical'

• Video files are added as Type=Video except

• they're added as 'Video Podcast' if Genre contains 'Podcast'
• they're added as 'TV' if Genre contains 'TV Show', 'TV Series' or 'Television'
• they're added as 'Music Video' if Genre contains 'Music Video'

The 'Type' associated with a file can be edited at any time via Edit > Properties > Type.

To edit the behaviors associated with each file 'Type' go to Tools > Options > Player > Playback rules.

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