This is a very odd sort of problem, I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, so I've taken a few screen shots to help explain. I recently purchased and installed v4 of the product (4.0.1.1461). At first I thought I was having a strange interaction problem between Google MusicManager and MediaMonkey, but I've determined the problem is MediaMonkey.
The problem seems to be related to the auto-organize feature:
- some files are being renamed a second time to "orginal-name(2).mp3" even when an "auto-organize" is not required
- some files are being skipped and not "auto-organized"
- some files are being "auto-organized" but turn into dead links in the MediaMonkey database
The symptoms show up after a night of "auto-organizing" (I leave the application running with the "auto-organize" turned on). Initially, I was missing half of my music library (about half of the library turned into dead links) even though none of the files marked as dead links had actually disappeared from the disk. I thought I might be having a problem with file and path names that were too long. So I shortened the naming template to "auto-organize" the library a second time (template is D:\ServerFolders\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Track#:2>_<Title>) to use shorter file names.
Let MediaMonkey "auto-organize" again overnight, and I now end up with a bunch of renamed files, per the new filename template, but it's as if the rename happened twice, because many of the music files are now named "xx_title(2).mp3" and there are a bunch of dead links "pointing" what should have been the correct new name of "xx_title.mp3". The following image illustrates a sample:
However, some files show up with two new names, like above, but both are dead links. In this case, the files are still on the disk, and they have been "auto-organized" to match the new filename template, and only the "xx_title(2).mp3" file is present. See this image for what the MediaMonkey library thinks:
Finally, some albums in the library show up with double entries (see image below), but in fact, the files did not get "auto-organized" and they still are named according to the previous naming template. Again, no files are actually missing from the disk, just that the library is confused. See the following image:
This is a Windows Home Server 2011 machine that I have configured to allow user login (via RDP) and am successfully using it as a small application server as well as just a home file server (similar to a Small Business Server). WHS 2011 is just a slimmed down version of Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit Windows 7 configured as a server). I am running MediaMonkey as a "user" (not as an "administrator"). File permissions for the MediaMonkey program directory and for the music directory are not an issue, my "user" has full control of these directories.
Do the MediaMonkey background processes, such as "auto-organize" run as a System or Administrator user, or do they run as the User that is running MediaMonkey? Also, is it possible to install MediaMonkey for only one user, so it installs and stores everything in either the \Users\"username"\AppData directory, or in some other directory outside of \Program Files (x86)\?
Sorry for the long-winded error report, but I couldn't find anything on the forum that was quite what I am experiencing...
p.s. You might have to view the images separately to see the right half of them in order to see the filenames.
This is a very odd sort of problem, I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, so I've taken a few screen shots to help explain. I recently purchased and installed v4 of the product (4.0.1.1461). At first I thought I was having a strange interaction problem between Google MusicManager and MediaMonkey, but I've determined the problem is MediaMonkey.
The problem seems to be related to the auto-organize feature:
- some files are being renamed a second time to "orginal-name(2).mp3" even when an "auto-organize" is not required
- some files are being skipped and not "auto-organized"
- some files are being "auto-organized" but turn into dead links in the MediaMonkey database
The symptoms show up after a night of "auto-organizing" (I leave the application running with the "auto-organize" turned on). Initially, I was missing half of my music library (about half of the library turned into dead links) even though none of the files marked as dead links had actually disappeared from the disk. I thought I might be having a problem with file and path names that were too long. So I shortened the naming template to "auto-organize" the library a second time (template is D:\ServerFolders\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Track#:2>_<Title>) to use shorter file names.
Let MediaMonkey "auto-organize" again overnight, and I now end up with a bunch of renamed files, per the new filename template, but it's as if the rename happened twice, because many of the music files are now named "xx_title(2).mp3" and there are a bunch of dead links "pointing" what should have been the correct new name of "xx_title.mp3". The following image illustrates a sample:
[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mJJIQz92Ox4/Tu7UQ0B4kMI/AAAAAAAABEI/QYIn5GCTRdc/s1004/renamed%2525282%252529.png[/img]
However, some files show up with two new names, like above, but both are dead links. In this case, the files are still on the disk, and they have been "auto-organized" to match the new filename template, and only the "xx_title(2).mp3" file is present. See this image for what the MediaMonkey library thinks:
[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZWXGRqoCPwo/Tu7URHzvZAI/AAAAAAAABEM/JDRIzEhJlz0/s937/all-gone.png[/img]
Finally, some albums in the library show up with double entries (see image below), but in fact, the files did not get "auto-organized" and they still are named according to the previous naming template. Again, no files are actually missing from the disk, just that the library is confused. See the following image:
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wM1ALaj082g/Tu7URqqe4eI/AAAAAAAABEc/KL_jUuzpLk4/s975/duplicates.png[/img]
This is a Windows Home Server 2011 machine that I have configured to allow user login (via RDP) and am successfully using it as a small application server as well as just a home file server (similar to a Small Business Server). WHS 2011 is just a slimmed down version of Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit Windows 7 configured as a server). I am running MediaMonkey as a "user" (not as an "administrator"). File permissions for the MediaMonkey program directory and for the music directory are not an issue, my "user" has full control of these directories.
Do the MediaMonkey background processes, such as "auto-organize" run as a System or Administrator user, or do they run as the User that is running MediaMonkey? Also, is it possible to install MediaMonkey for only one user, so it installs and stores everything in either the \Users\"username"\AppData directory, or in some other directory outside of \Program Files (x86)\?
Sorry for the long-winded error report, but I couldn't find anything on the forum that was quite what I am experiencing...
p.s. You might have to view the images separately to see the right half of them in order to see the filenames.