Now, this works fine and is awesome. However this only works with MP3 files and not with FLAC files. I can tag those fields in MP3tag but they won't show up filled appropriately in MediaMonkey afterwards.
Sync to mobile devices. The previous two are particularly interesting because with MM, you can sync your playlists and associate music and listening history to your mobile devices to take along with you.
Note that MM can also play to your devices, though it uses DLNA instead of RAAT/AirPlay/Chromecast/Sonos/KEF protocols that Roon uses. However, MM 4 seems to have Chromecast support, and I see plugins for AirPlay as well.
I also used MM for many years; but solely for ripping and metadata editing. Never used it as a player (it would be rather like using an Excel spreadsheet as a player IMO). A few years back I moved to using dBpoweramp for ripping and metadata editing, followed shortly by moving to Roon as my player.
This is a brief blog outlining my journey through various audio management & playback apps which took me to where I am today. Dial the clock back to around 1997. I had gotten into minidisc as a way of making my own compilations and recordings of...
I have used pretty much all of the music management softwares. After trying a few other apps I moved from MediaMoney to JRiver to Foobar2000. Eventually to Roon. Roon remains my favourite, for obvious reasons, though the apps mentioned above do have some features which are lacking in Roon. Hopefully Roon will continue to develop the UI and metadata side of things, rather than focusing on expanding their empire via partnerships with audio manufacturers and marketing their own hardware.
i do it exactly the same way with MM 4 for tagging, cover into the tag of each file and sorting files to folders (strg - R)
dbpoweramp for converting and ripping
roon as player (and foobar on PC for opening single files without starting R.O.C.K. server)
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*Is Spotify able to import csv's or textfiles either natively or by plugin/extension? To be clear, I've got no expectation of audio itself getting imported, but it's more the playlists/song lists themselves as manually replicating this would be a mammoth task. I know an "export" from Spotify can be done by dragging a playlist to desktop which creates a web URL but that's the closest I've ever gotten to finding any import/export functionality.
*And for bonus points, is there any documentation as to formats Spotify expects for imported playlists? I'm sure there may be some discrepancy between MM's export format and Spotify's expected import format, but I'm fully prepared that I may need to do some find/replace or use macros to manipulate the text/metadata into a format Spotify can use and recognize.
Ironically after contacting support and asking the question getting a useless "there is no way to do it" response, I did a bit more digging and came across that myself yesterday - end results were tremendous!
As a bit of background, the hard drives housing this music have been sitting in storage for the past 5 years + and I have been on Spotify Premium since, never bothering to move stuff over in an orderly fashion. Accordingly, it's been a long time since I've used MM and this is on a new PC.
I tried using TuneMyMusic with an old m3u playlist file, but naturally the paths are no longer valid and even modding with find/replaces there were broken tracks, so rescanned the entire music folder into a fresh library before exporting to m3u again.
Results on TuneMyMusic were atrocious considering, naturally, m3u's only contain folder paths and filenames leaving a lot of guesswork up to TMM - a large percentage of the "matches" off the filenames were for totally wrong songs.
Very impressed with their efforts and have e-mailed them to say as much - Spotify on the other hand, I'm very disappointed with. I can understand their reticence creating export tools (for obvious reasons) or creating a tool for import for every of the multitude of small, random players like MediaMonkey out there, but CSV import? Import from the larger cloud providers? Surely it's a no-brainer for trying to encourage new users onto their platform and it's been demonstrated it's obviously do-able without granting a third-party access to your account?
And an import feature directly with Spotify would be pretty awesome! You can take a look at the Ideas Exchange and see if this has already been submitted (I had a quick look but couldn't see anything), if not, you can submit the idea.
Was a complete ballache and ultimately took over a week of work tweaking incorrect metadata, and revealed some songs that aren't on Spotify, but very high success rate over all... Just glad it's done forever. I shudder to think the work that would have been involved in the tool had it not been available - would definitely suggest donations via their Facebook page for anyone it helps, I did and worth every penny as far as I'm concerned for the saved time!
Though iTunes has over 100 million users around the world, it is also true that some people are ditching iTunes for other media players because iTunes can be frustrating and un-user friendly sometimes. Someone said in the Apple Support Community: "iTunes for Windows is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used...iTunes is constantly crashing to the desktop, taking hours to do simple sync and I have encountered an issue where iTunes is refusing to import the MP3s." I believe quite a few iTunes users can relate to this.
As for alternatives to iTunes, MediaMonkey music player is one of those choices that become more and more popular with the crowd. However, there is one big obstacle standing in front: all the downloaded Apple Music from iTunes are protected by Apple's DRM technology called Fairplay in M4P format. It means that you may not be able to play iTunes music on other music players.
MediaMonkey is a music player as well as a music collection organizer. It is designed to perform many tasks smartly such as converting audio, organizing files automatically, finding duplicates and missing tags, ripping CDs, and so much more. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.
So why do people ditch iTunes for MediaMonkey? After doing some research, we found three main features that show MediaMonkey music player is an excellent alternative to iTunes. First, it enables users to record and convert video and audio files. Second, it is way smarter than iTunes in organizing songs, playlist, and albums, which saves users a lot of effort. Thirdly, MediaMonkey can do realize something that iTunes cannot - stream to Blu-ray player through working with any UPnP or DLNA enabled media player.
However, as I have mentioned above, MediaMonkey is incapable of playing the encrypted iTunes music directly. If you have encountered the same difficulty, keep on reading to find the easiest way to play iTunes music on MediaMonkey with the tool recommended.
There are already a few tools on the Internet that can convert iTunes music for you, but they are not as reliable and professional as DRmare iTunes Music Converter. It is an excellent and easy-to-use tool specially designed to remove Apple's DRM restriction and download iTunes music to any common formats with lossless quality. Therefore, you will be able to import iTunes music to MediaMonkey freely.
Moreover, after removing DRM restriction on iTunes music, you will be able to play them on any media players, but not only MediaMonkey. It is also possible to play the converted iTunes music on TV, in the car, or even burn iTunes music to CD so that audiophiles can enjoy them using a CD player.
Double click on DRmare iTunes Music Converter to launch the software. Press on the 'Add Files' button, and all your downloaded iTunes songs and playlists will show up in the main interface. Then select the music you want to import to DRmare iTunes Music Converter. If your files don't show up there, this may be caused by iTunes settings.
iTunes music originally comes with an M4P format in 256kbps. You can convert them to the formats that Media Monkey support, including MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, MPC, APE, and WAV. By default, it will convert the output format as MP3. If you want to have a higher bit rate of output music, we suggest FLAC.
No matter how many iTunes songs you have to convert, you don't have to wait for long because DRmare iTunes Music Converter works at rapid speed. When the converting completes, you will find all the iTunes music DRM-free files saved at the destination folder.
After these 3 steps, you have completed most of the work and so close to the end. The last thing you need to do is import the downloaded iTunes music to MediaMonkey. Open MediaMonkey and go to 'File' > 'Add/Rescan track to the Library', select the folder you stored your iTunes music. You are good to enjoy iTunes music on MediaMonkey now!
When it comes to music management software, MediaMonkey is second to none. It is a powerful media manager for serious collectors, supporting to catalogs gigantic libraries even over 100,000 songs in size without slowing down, whether they're located on a hard drive or network. The software can also help you work with the metadata of your media library, with automatic lookup of album art, artist, lyrics, and other information through online databases. You can manage audio and video of any genre or type, and then make use of automatic playlists for your party or personal playback needs.
As the format, MediaMonkey allows for management and playback of audio with almost all formats, but this does not extend to the streaming music, like Spotify music. Because each of Spotify songs is streamed in protected OGG Vorbis format, for which we are not able to import them to MediaMonkey for management and playback.
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