Look: MJ/MC is a soft designed for computer geeks who own 20 000 files or so. If you don't belong to any of these two categories, you'd rather use some trendy skinny softs like Realshit or WMP. MJ/MC beats them all so long as your do like music and want to have everything you need to truly appreciate it.
So MJ/MC deserves a proper library manager.
Now, I've been trying to restore my library after formatting my system disk and restoring WinXP. It was a total disaster.
True, I was able to recover nearly all the data but that's only because I took care of saving everything in unorthodox ways, like copying the cover art folder to another disk, or "editing" the library to a safe place.
Precisely, when I tried to get it back from this safe place (another disk which I hadn't formatted), I couldn't find any command allowing me to do so. I had to use the backup I had made when I decided to format the system disk (what if I had to format a non-operating system disk whithout any warning?), but the data in it was like four month old!
As for the cover arts, there is simply no way to save them. True, you can always to to the "program files" folder and copy the "cover art" folder to a safe place, but how do you restore it? Since I had upgraded from MJ to MC, the files' paths point to a "Media Jukebox\Data\Covert Art" folder, which no longer exist if you install MC directly. So I had to recreate a "Media Jukebox" folder.
I have to be frank: Media Jukebox/Center is a fantastic program and it changed my life (I mean it, it really did), but the library management part of it is a disgrace. What is urgently needed is some efficient and simple tools to keep your data safe, away from the system disk, and easy to restore in case of a serious crash, or even a well-planned system restoration, which was the case.
Please, do something!