Rickenbacker

Mediamonkey's auto-tag feature works great.

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Guybrush

I can see how organization by genre is useful, but I would definetly do that in the media library/player setting up filters for tags and stuff. I would not do it by folders. Alphabetical makes more sense there. It should be possible for someone who comes over and wants to copy some music to find out just where the files they're looking for are located in your system I think.

I have run into a major obstacle, actually .. The damn filters which I don't know how to write!

I have Columns UI, but it only has genre, artist and album filters. I'd like a filter for artist first letters too, like W gives you Ween, Willie Nelson and so on. :/

edit :

The reason I need better filters/query functions is really because if I have a column on the left hand showing artists, it becomes rather big. For example I have 243 artists starting with just the letter S. For that reason, it makes sense to have a way you can click the letter S, then get those 243 artists in the next column so .. First Letter / Artist / Albums would be good.

I have to say, though, so far Winamp seems way easier and so far more practical for large libraries. In the screenshots I've seen, I've yet to see anything quite as handy as Winamps smart filters which I use a lot (f.ex to only see music only from films, from musicals, specific decades, genres, whatever). It's the other stuff which seems cooler.

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noise

oh, trust me, once you get foobar set up the way you want it, you'll never go back. it offers a lot more flexibility than winamp.

for a letter filter, use this:

$left($swapprefix(%album artist%),1)

the $swapprefix bit move (the, a) to the end so that "the cure" is filed under "c" as "cure, the". might also want to use that in your artist filter. the rest just grabs the left-most character of what remains.

if you don't want the prefixes swapped, then just use:

$left(%album artist%,1)

i can also help you set up a custom script to swap prefixes from the Norwegian language if you want

if you like accessing your library a lot of different ways, you might consider skipping the filters component and using the Library Tree component instead. it offers a tree view with three primary nodes - library, autoplaylists, and playlists. within the library node, you can set up any number of custom nodes, with as many levels as you like. for example, you an make one "letter - artist - year - album - track", or "decade - year - artist - album - track"

of course, you can do this with filters too, but you end up getting a lot of tabs which can clutter the UI.

and by the way - foobar supports multivalue tags. so you can throw as many entries as you like in %genre%, and the track will show up under all of them. you just have to tell it to split multivalue entries manually, that's the only catch. in the properties dialog, select the field, right-click, choose "split values", and enter go from there.

you can also use whatever custom tags you want. anything at all. i have a %style% tag which is basically a sub-genre. so in the "genre" tab of my filters pane, there are three filters: genre, style, and artist.

i also have custom tags like %skip% which i use to tag things like non-music tracks, single-track live bootlegs, blank tracks, interviews, and other things i don't want to hear when i throw things on shuffle. i use it with the foo_skip component.

another tag is %live%, which just gives me a simple visual marker in my playlist for all live albums/tracks.

yet another is %country%, which is responsible for the flag images you see in my screenshot.

foobar can do just about anything

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Guybrush

Yes, awesome! Thanks man

Keep an eye on that inbox

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Cadrian

What I read on google... This sounds perfect.

Sucks now I am going to have 3 media players on my computer... Zune, Itunes and mediamonkey.

I remember messing around with mediamonkey a year ago or so.... Because I wanted a player that I could use for Home theater on my spare computer. I uninstalled it but I cant remember why.... I just realized this plays Flac as well. thats a big bonus.

How is Mediamonkey on memory? Zune is a memory eater, with Itunes right behind it.

Sorry I hope I am not taking away from the threads subject. But I guess MP3 ID is sort of under the subject.

noise

Cadrian, why do you "need" 3 players?

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Guybrush

I never actually liked MediaMonkey and think of it as overrated. :/

When I used it, it didn't seem like a good solution for a large library, let's say f.ex over 30 000 songs. I realize that's a lot, but media libraries tend to grow over time and these days, HD space isn't quite the problem it used to be ..

Winamp has a search bar smack dab in the middle of your field of vision and a very easy way to set up filters and so on to sort out the stuff you want from the stuff you don't want with a mouse click. Very handy! Foobar is versatile and so is basically able to do the same with a bit of tweaking and can also be made to do other things.

I think you have to think about what you need from a program. If you have a huge library, get Winamp or foobar if you think you can manage it.

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Cadrian

Got a Ipod and a Zune.... I think I am about to get rid of the zune, and upgrade my IPOD to the 160gb with my tax return. I got the Zune... but the my brother shares my Media libary and he has a IPOD so I have Itunes as well.

I just got suggested Mediamonkey for correcting MP3 IDS and such, havent added my libary to yet because I know its going to take like 2 days for it to complete.



Do you guys who use Winamp and Foobar not use MP3 Players? Or how does that work?

noise

well media monkey (and foobar for that matter) can sync with your ipod. no need for itunes. especially if you lose your zune.

i don't have much experience with media monkey, but i can say that scanning a 160gb library into foobar only takes a couple of minutes...

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Cadrian

Damn I can get rid of ITUNES? Shows how much I have looked, I didnt know there was other software that you could sync with your IPOD. I figured apple would have that on lock so I never bothered to look.

Now I guess I gotta decide between Foobar or media Monkey... My Libary consists of 70k in songs almost 400gb not 160gb, just the 160gb seemed the biggest I could get at this momment.

Here is a big factor between media monkey or foobar can i import my current playlist from itunes from either of them?

BTW from the Foobar thread.... It looks like alot of scripting.