Yup, Rob_S made a nice summary. I envisioned the Date Acquired field to be manually editable, just like most MM fields like song Date, Artist, etc. An enhancement to what I had suggested earlier... If the option is marked to add a Date Acquired field on first scan, the MM logic should be if Date Acq...

I am speculating, but I am guessing the "Added" field is just taken from the SQL db that MM is using as its library database. Hence the suggestion for a "Date Acquired" field, in order to distinguish between the two.

Re: the potential Issue Rob mentions, I think all MM would need to do when adding/scanning, is check to see if the MM specific Date Acquired tag is present. If it is, then don't update/add Date Acquired. If the tag was there, then you know the file was previously added to a MM db. And if someone wan...

Yes, Rob_S captures the essence of what I am suggesting as a new feature and why. Lowlander's migration pointer is helpful, but doing something like what I suggest would make it a lot simpler for the average user. Rob does have a valid point, that for people who already have a large library of the d...

Thanks Lowlander, "Grid by Album View" covers this.

Thanks for the pointer. So much to discover with MM5. The grid by album view is nicely laid out. I have to give kudos to the MM5 team. Aesthetically MM5 is great.

I've recently had to rebuild my MM Db. I often want to play songs I acquired in the last month, last year etc., but now all of 22,000+ songs have a date added of last week. This got me thinking that it would be great if MM would optionally preserve the date the song was first acquired. Suggestion: I...

I also like the nice playlist album graphic and think it would be a cool idea to be able to expand it. If you do this, and show it an an expanded window it would be cool to have an option to allow all of the album art covers shown (with a scrollbar) to scroll through them, instead of a 3x3 grid of j...

Drakinite's Undock Panels add-on might help for you. https://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/browse/item/undock-playing/ It currently supports undocking of "Now Playing", "Lyrics" and "Playlists". I also like to have nicely displayed album art, and I've spoken to him and he ...

I would be happy to pay for add-on here as well. Like 1001Musik, I rely extensively on playlists. Now that many users are just collecting individual songs (not albums), I think more and more people will use playlists as a way to organize their collections. While there are many useful things a playli...

Ahh...

99.999% of the time I would have spent some time cleaning up my library and manually done some other tag changes. So if those manual tag changes forced the update of the add-on changes then that would explain what I am seeing.

Thanks again!

Thanks Lowlander. Ctrl-S to force synch of tags worked. When MM5 did the rescan, it had the new values from custom1. I also noticed that the date modified of the .mp3 was also updated after the Ctrl -S. I am curious now.... When add-on apps like these update things, is there an MM4 background progre...

Thanks Rob and Lowlander. I think I have found where the issue is. In MM4, I was running "Playlist in Mainwindow". It adds playlists to the custom1 field. If I run MM5, on first scan, it will show in custom1 all the playlists the song is in. This implies to me that custom1 is being correct...

The file edit was I changed some properties with MM4, that MM4 will write into tags in the .mp3 file. So yes, the MM4 sees the changes. MM5 when first building its db is reading the info from the tags correctly on first build of the db e.g. With MM4 I added something to field custom1, and when MM5 b...

Running the latest 5.1.0.2819 build. Outside of MM5 I updated some .mp3 files. I wanted to have the MM5 db updated with the changes. Under Tools, Options, Library I have CHECKED "Update file info from tags when rescanning files" and UNCHECKED "Only for files with changed timestamp or ...

Thanks Lowlander for the tip about how to handle a whole system freeze. I'll try remember this for the future. In this case, the repro is lost as I rebuilt my MM dbs. There was probably something weird in them, so I don't think my initial problem/error is worth chasing or trying to repro now. I woul...