Dreadlau wrote:ok here is some introduction to the concept of tagging and media library:

1: wikipedia entry for "tag editor": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_editor

2: Mediamonkey Digital music faq: http://www.mediamonkey.com/mp3-ogg-wma-audio-faq.htm


Where to find tagging sites:

Mediamonkey Wiki: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... arch_Sites



How to use Mediamonkey to tag and organize your library:

Mediamonkey online help: http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/webhelp/frame/index.html
( read especially "Editing Tracks" )


Hope that helps.
And welcome to Mediamonkey

Dreadlau wrote:

digital dave wrote:You mentioned that it uses the drive I'd and not the letter. What impact does that have?

The impact is that:
If you disconnect your drive and reconnect it later. There is a chance that Windows assign a new letter to it. (for example it could change from "I:" to "J:" )
In the case of that event Mediamonkey would be unable to locate the tracks and they would appear in Grey in the Mediamonkey library.
And you wouldn't be able to play them from Mediamonkey.

digital dave wrote:And how do you tag the tracks?

If you look at the main panel in Mediamonkey you'll see several columns with headers.
Each headers is corresponding to one type of tag. (for example: track, album, artist, genre, year, rating, ...)
You can edit the tags of a track or a selection of several track by doing: right click --> properties

There are several ways of tagging tracks. It's a vast subject.
I'll see if I can find some helping guides to further help you with that matter.

digital dave wrote:That would make sense and I think I have that covered. I have notices that sound analyzing would probably take a fair amount of time.

The volume analyzing for 90K tracks will take a lot of time indeed ( probably several days ).
While Mediamonkey is analyzing track volume, you're computer will probably feel a bit slow and sluggish.
The reason is that this operation needs a lot of computing power.

Lowlander wrote:

Dreadlau wrote:If you disconnect your drive and reconnect it later. There is a chance that Windows assign a new letter to it. (for example it could change from "I:" to "J:" )
In the case of that event Mediamonkey would be unable to locate the tracks and they would appear in Grey in the Mediamonkey library.
And you wouldn't be able to play them from Mediamonkey.

Actually the nice thing about using DriveID is that when you connect the drive and it has a different drive letter that it still works in MediaMonkey. The drive letter is not important and as long as Windows doesn't change the DriveID (this seems to happen with mapped drives, but I haven't seen issues with external drives) MediaMonkey will still see the songs. This is the big benefit of using DriveID.

Dreadlau wrote:If you disconnect your drive and reconnect it later. There is a chance that Windows assign a new letter to it. (for example it could change from "I:" to "J:" )
In the case of that event Mediamonkey would be unable to locate the tracks and they would appear in Grey in the Mediamonkey library.
And you wouldn't be able to play them from Mediamonkey.

digital dave wrote:You mentioned that it uses the drive I'd and not the letter. What impact does that have?

digital dave wrote:And how do you tag the tracks?

digital dave wrote:That would make sense and I think I have that covered. I have notices that sound analyzing would probably take a fair amount of time.

Lowlander wrote:The larger the library the better the PC you want for good performance. Some operations require processing a lot of data so naturally a faster PC does better.

Dreadlau wrote:

1) can MediaMonkey handle that much music without bogging down?

Without problem. It's fairly small actually compared to some Mediamonkey user's library.
For example I have about 30K songs in my library. And it runs smoothly. Some users reported running MM with more than 200K songs!

2) Whats the best way to orginize the music without screwing up his organization of the folders.

If you want to keep your folder structure intact. Tagging your tracks will get you to a nicely organized library. And it won't alter your files names or your folder structure.

3) Can the entire libary reside on another portable drive? (I have all the songs on a 1T drive in a hot swapable drive bay and would like to leave it that way if possible).

Yes.
Be aware tho that Mediamonkey use the drive ID instead of the drive letter to recognize the drives.

1) can MediaMonkey handle that much music without bogging down?

2) Whats the best way to orginize the music without screwing up his organization of the folders.

3) Can the entire libary reside on another portable drive? (I have all the songs on a 1T drive in a hot swapable drive bay and would like to leave it that way if possible).