Lewies Blog

At one time, all of my 3000+ MP3 and AAC files had been tagged with ratings, album artwork, categories, etc. This was mainly done using iTunes over a long period of time. I started looking around and found a better tool to take care of the tagging and quickly identify witch files are missing specific tags. MediaMonkey is my new hero. Forget about iTunes. This software has the ability to fetch artwork, track names, artist, label, year, etc. direct from Amazon. I have a choice of many different amazon sites to choose from as well (UK, Germany, Japan, etc.) which comes in handy for imports. The manageability of my music within the product is great. I’m able to view music by album, artist, Composer, Genre, Year, etc. The one that I love is the ability to list music without album artwork. I have about 1644 files left to tag. It also has the ability to rename the files on my computer and network drives according to a format that I specify. I prefer <Album Artist>\<Album>\<Track#> – <Title>. The software is free, but a paid version gets you a bit more features. I’m debating on getting the lifetime membership so I’ll be privy to all future updates. The one thing that it seems to be missing is the ability to detect (or even host) media servers on my network. At this time, only the PS3 and Windows Media Player are able to detect the media server. Who knows… maybe sometime in the future that capability will be available.