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I gave MediaMonkey 3 a shot today, after a successful trial in VMware Workstation last night. The reason I tried MM3 was, it being the first media player I heard that can automatically rename files and move them immediately after renaming tags. This behavior is not enabled by default however. I added the my proper iTunes managed 19910 tracks to MM3 and noticed tracks getting moved. For example a song belonged to AC/DC artist folder moved into a AC-DC artist folder tracks getting renamed (variant 1). For example 1-03 Secrets.mp3 renamed to 03 Secrets.mp3. I realized MM3 did not by default use the DiscCount tag to rename files. tracks getting renamed (variant 2). For example "07 What is Love_.mp3" which has the Name tag as "What is Love?" renamed to just "07 What is Love.mp3". iTunes used underscore for illegal characters but MM3 just did not include them at all. All this damage was done without me even enabling Automatically organize files. ...

During the last few days some significant core changes as to how iTSfv loads were done. This was transparent for the general user. According to the current implementation, iTSfv goes to a WMPfv mode if it detects Windows Vista Media Center and no iTunes is detected. If neither Vista Media Center nor iTunes is detected then iTSfv will go to a File Validator mode. I was originally thinking of having one big cool GUI for both iTunes and WMP but later decided for the sake of making things modular, splitting the work into two GUI forms. So now when I work on WMPfv and see any buggy code in iTSfv I can go back and actually fix it because I am kind of rewriting things from scratch. If I was using the same iTSfv GUI then I wouldn't have spotted it. So far WMPfv implements Synchroclean and Updating UrlToCover from existing Album Art. Functionality should be added to load Windows Media Player library to XmlTracks, extracting Cover to the folders required. So when the user validates she ca...

Enhancement #1 iTunes Users with "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" setting disabled, can use iTSfv to add new music to the library to a specified folder in the folder structure they like to have. For example, if you have Default Music folder location set to be F:Music in iTSfv Options > Explorer and you have music folder structure set to %Genre%%AlbumArtist% - (%Year%) %Album% then when you add / drag new music (e.g. Artist: Infected Mushroom, Album;  Vicious Delicious) to iTSfv it will first copy the files to F:MusicPsy-TranceInfected Mushroom - (2007) Vicious Delicious folder and start adding to iTunes Status Bar in the screenshot below demonstrates a similar instance: The options required to archive this are below:   Enhancement #2 iTSfv can also automatically add newly found music to iTunes. For this option to work you will need to enable Folder Watch.

Enhancement #1 iTunes Users with "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" setting disabled, can use iTSfv to add new music to the library to a specified folder in the folder structure they like to have. For example, if you have Default Music folder location set to be F:\Music in iTSfv Options > Explorer and you have music folder structure set to %Genre%\%AlbumArtist% - (%Year%) %Album% then when you add / drag new music (e.g. Artist: Infected Mushroom, Album;  Vicious Delicious) to iTSfv it will first copy the files to F:\Music\Psy-Trance\Infected Mushroom - (2007) Vicious Delicious\ folder and start adding to iTunes Status Bar in the screenshot below demonstrates a similar instance: The options required to archive this are below:   Enhancement #2 iTSfv can also automatically add newly found music to iTunes. For this option to work you will need to enable Folder Watch.

I was thinking - it is possible to implement that in iTSfv. Don't know why I didn't think of it before. As simple may it sound, I haven't seen such a validator before. Next build of iTSfv will have iTSfv Lite which will be loaded in the absence of iTunes. iTSfv Lite can be also accessed via Tools > File Validator from iTSfv.   del.icio.us Tags: itsfv