MediaMonkey handling and auto-organization of audiobooks
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:34 pm
Hi,
So I've been a user of the 'free' MediaMonkey for a year or so now and I'm hoping to finally buy that sweet sweet premium version - primarily so I can use it to organize both my music and audiobooks in the same place. Going back through my audiobook collection, I'd say maybe 3/4ths is what I ripped from my audible subscription and the rest is stuff I've collected from practically everywhere. Needless to say it's rather messy in certain aspects (for example: the author data might be in the metadata, the file structure, the file name, or not there at all.) Likewise the file formats are a mix of mp3, m4a, m4b, probably a few leftover aax and other stragglers.
So, I suppose my question is, would MediaMonkey be able to process these file formats and so forth to get the proper tags in there? I doubt there's a service that can identify audiobooks through umm... fingerprinting? [actually I'm not sure how it works, a sort of hash function or something along those lines that it send to have a server compare similar results?] unlike with music, though if there were that'd be pretty amazing. More realistically though, would MM still have the brains to extract at least most of the data from the files and/or look it up by title and so forth?
Thanks for the help, Windows really doesn't have much in the way of good audiobook managers and being able to do music and books both with MM would be perfect.
So I've been a user of the 'free' MediaMonkey for a year or so now and I'm hoping to finally buy that sweet sweet premium version - primarily so I can use it to organize both my music and audiobooks in the same place. Going back through my audiobook collection, I'd say maybe 3/4ths is what I ripped from my audible subscription and the rest is stuff I've collected from practically everywhere. Needless to say it's rather messy in certain aspects (for example: the author data might be in the metadata, the file structure, the file name, or not there at all.) Likewise the file formats are a mix of mp3, m4a, m4b, probably a few leftover aax and other stragglers.
So, I suppose my question is, would MediaMonkey be able to process these file formats and so forth to get the proper tags in there? I doubt there's a service that can identify audiobooks through umm... fingerprinting? [actually I'm not sure how it works, a sort of hash function or something along those lines that it send to have a server compare similar results?] unlike with music, though if there were that'd be pretty amazing. More realistically though, would MM still have the brains to extract at least most of the data from the files and/or look it up by title and so forth?
Thanks for the help, Windows really doesn't have much in the way of good audiobook managers and being able to do music and books both with MM would be perfect.