Thats what i think about Media Center 12 (beta) so far. I have tried the following programs to manage my huge collection of MP3's:
Catraxx
Audio Catalog
Melomania
Zortman MP3 Studio
and Media Monkey
I absolutely love MC 12 and it completely blows away the competition when it comes to presentation and UI and overall layout. There are a few short commings that need to be addressed before i can invest in this software however and I'm hoping that either a) its just a matter of i don't know how to do what i want to do within the software or b) it can be resolved with a simple addon ie a plugin.
Problem #1
When it comes to Auto-tagging, downloading images,artist info, bios and other info from the web Media Monkey is far superior. I simply right click on an album/artist and hit auto tag from amazon and it gets ALL the info in one neat nice pane. I can then select what info i want to be applied to the selected files. During my testing I would attempt to dl an image for an album using MC 12 and it wouldn't find anything, I would then pop right over the Media Monkey and i would get the all the info that MC just failed to find. This is a huge huge drawback as i cant completely jump ship until this is resolved. (an amazon plugin would be nice)
Problem #2
This is more of an annoyance than a problem; Lets say i am in MC12 and for some reason i edit some of my MP3's outside of MC12 it would be nice to have a little rescan folder button instead of having to go through the longer "add files to library process" in order to reflect the changes made.
Problem #3
This is a request/question; Lets say I'm browsing my music in the Artist view and i double click an
an artist, when i get to the next pane it list all the albums for that Artist. Now if i double click an album it will then show me all the files for the album to the bottom (this is nice). Now what i would like to know is if there is a way when i double click on the Artist initially, the next pane that list all the albums can also show me the "all files" view to the bottom without having to double click an album 1st. Then if i select and album it will filter the "all files" view. (Hope i explained that well)
The 1st problem is major (for me) but the other 2 would be very nice to have
. All suggestions responses are welcome.
Fuz.