by Tirugondar » Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:43 am
Just in case any other newbie is following this thread, I'll note what I think I've learned.
It appears that if I first open MediaMonkey and THEN plug in my memory card, MediaMonkey selected the device listing with the d_WMDM plug-in. If the memory card is inserted first and MediaMonkey is opened AFTER, it then selects the device listing with the d_USBMass plug-in. So now I'm careful to always open MediaMonkey first and then insert my flash drives or memory cards. The order appears to affect what MediaMonkey does.
I've also unchecked the box beside the device with the d_USBMass plug-in (as nohitter151 recommended), which ensures that it can never be selected. I tried to delete this plug-in, but it didn't work. I learned that the list in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window is NOT, in fact, a list of plug-ins. It is a list of Devices that you've attached to your computer and that MediaMonkey has scanned. As such, the window appears to be misnamed. It is not a list of the plug-ins that have been downloaded to MediaMonkey. It is a list of devices (followed by the plug-ins used to control them).
As far as I can tell, the only way to see the full list of available plug-ins is to go to MediaMonkey's program files on your hard drive and open the Plugins folder. I assume that if you delete a plugin from this folder, you are deleting it from MediaMonkey. So if you wanted to delete the now outdated d_USBMass plug-in, you'd have to open this folder and just delete it manually. I see no way of doing it through the MediaMonkey interface. (In my case, there's more confusion here. The d_USBMass plug-in is NOT listed in my MediaMonkey plugins folder. Yet, it is used in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window. I have no idea where MediaMonkey finds it when I plug in my memory cards.)
I also learned that it is possible to rename your Devices listed in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window. This is very helpful. I use several different memory cards to sync to MediaMonkey and they were all listed exactly the same - E:\ - even though each had totally different configuration settings. Since there was no way to tell them apart, it became very confusing. Now I've renamed them all and given them distinct names.
If you do rename your devices, it's best to do it when you've plugged in your device. Then go to the Summary tab for that device and click on the name of the Device. You can then change the name to anything you like. There is no indication anywhere that this is where you should or even can change the name, but it works well. I found that changing the name anywhere else wipes out all the configuration settings and sets them back to the default. But if you change the name on the Summary tab, everything stays exactly the same and MediaMonkey will scan the device and sync with it exactly as it did before. If you change the name in the Media Tree, for example, it wipes everything out and you have to start all over again.
I'm no expert, so I could be doing all of this in exactly the wrong way, but this is what has worked for me. I still find everything incredibly complicated (especially when you consider that I have to do all of this work just to listen to some podcasts), but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Hopefully the learning curve flattens out eventually.
Just in case any other newbie is following this thread, I'll note what I think I've learned.
It appears that if I first open MediaMonkey and THEN plug in my memory card, MediaMonkey selected the device listing with the d_WMDM plug-in. If the memory card is inserted first and MediaMonkey is opened AFTER, it then selects the device listing with the d_USBMass plug-in. So now I'm careful to always open MediaMonkey first and then insert my flash drives or memory cards. The order appears to affect what MediaMonkey does.
I've also unchecked the box beside the device with the d_USBMass plug-in (as nohitter151 recommended), which ensures that it can never be selected. I tried to delete this plug-in, but it didn't work. I learned that the list in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window is NOT, in fact, a list of plug-ins. It is a list of Devices that you've attached to your computer and that MediaMonkey has scanned. As such, the window appears to be misnamed. It is not a list of the plug-ins that have been downloaded to MediaMonkey. It is a list of devices (followed by the plug-ins used to control them).
As far as I can tell, the only way to see the full list of available plug-ins is to go to MediaMonkey's program files on your hard drive and open the Plugins folder. I assume that if you delete a plugin from this folder, you are deleting it from MediaMonkey. So if you wanted to delete the now outdated d_USBMass plug-in, you'd have to open this folder and just delete it manually. I see no way of doing it through the MediaMonkey interface. (In my case, there's more confusion here. The d_USBMass plug-in is NOT listed in my MediaMonkey plugins folder. Yet, it is used in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window. I have no idea where MediaMonkey finds it when I plug in my memory cards.)
I also learned that it is possible to rename your Devices listed in the "Available Devices/Plug-ins" window. This is very helpful. I use several different memory cards to sync to MediaMonkey and they were all listed exactly the same - E:\ - even though each had totally different configuration settings. Since there was no way to tell them apart, it became very confusing. Now I've renamed them all and given them distinct names.
If you do rename your devices, it's best to do it when you've plugged in your device. Then go to the Summary tab for that device and click on the name of the Device. You can then change the name to anything you like. There is no indication anywhere that this is where you should or even can change the name, but it works well. I found that changing the name anywhere else wipes out all the configuration settings and sets them back to the default. But if you change the name on the Summary tab, everything stays exactly the same and MediaMonkey will scan the device and sync with it exactly as it did before. If you change the name in the Media Tree, for example, it wipes everything out and you have to start all over again.
I'm no expert, so I could be doing all of this in exactly the wrong way, but this is what has worked for me. I still find everything incredibly complicated (especially when you consider that I have to do all of this work just to listen to some podcasts), but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Hopefully the learning curve flattens out eventually.