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After almost 9 months , I thought of giving another shot at MediaMonkey. This time I made sure not to enable auto organization of music files until I was very sure it would auto organize identical to iTunes. For this to happen I had to edit the ini file. I started a new thread in MediaMonkey forums to get file naming happening similar to iTunes. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34788 I came out with bad news. I wasn't able to retrieve the DiscCount of a track so I wouldn't be able to set auto organize rules identical to iTunes. It is bad because this means I have to completely give up on one player. If I choose MediaMonkey then I have to uninstall iTunes because it wouldn't find the tracks that MediaMonkey renamed. If I choose iTunes, then I have to disable the auto organize function in MediaMonkey. What good is it just to have a player? I can do better with foobar2000. There were performance issues as well.   I did the following tweaks ...

I realized a lot of people having trouble with tagging Classic music. Initially, I got into Classical music to take up this challenge but now I am hooked into it because of its nice sophisticated melodies. There has to be a very straight forward way of tagging music. The ID3v2 specification provides us frames for the following tags that can be used to organize classical music:   Artist AlbumArtist Conductor OriginalArtist Composer Album Name   My goal is to devise a plan to fit all of these tags into Classical music appropriately, so that the Classic music composers will appear in Last.fm statistics music will be organized and displayed well in iTunes   The primary focus is given to how the music is organized. This means tagging conventions for track names is not one of the primary concerns in this article. First we familiarise ourselves with the ID3v2 frames for the tags above.   TPE1 The 'Lead artist/L...

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. ...