Media Monkey Testrun

Media Monkey is a program that helps you organize and search through large collections of music.

I really have a large collection of music, so I thought that maybe this program could help me get things nice and tidy. It took a day and a half to get the music indexed, and that wasn't even all of it, that was just the part I have sorted out some myself. During the indexing process I did give the program top priority, still it didn't run more than what seemed like two or three tracks each second, which is a bit slower than desired.

Once everything was indexed I decided to fix my tags, all of them at once. The program crashed.

It booted up quickly though, and I tried again - this time with a selected chunk of files (not more than a few thousand). I tried tagging by filename and info first, but that didn't work so well, some artists received track titles as names and some didn't get any new tags at all. I tried tagging through the net, but it seems the program could only fetch tags for one album at a time, and at a pace like that it would be faster to re-tag everything without the program, or maybe with a better program.

I explored the playlist and music player features and though they all work fine and the search is pretty quick, it doesn't seem like this is what I'm looking for. It's not a program suited to manage a large music collection. Windows built-in explorer does that task just fine. It's more like a replacement for Winamp, a music player for those that want to have all their files in the playlist at once, something like Foobar 2000, and I already have Foobar 2000... which I should add is both faster and easier to use than this one. Shame.

This isn't the program for me.