Adding New Music

[Jason Hillard]

Hello,

I have recently migrated from iTunes to Media Monkey, and so far am loving it.

My first forum question, may well be one which has been asked before, however, I cannot find it.

Is it possible to double click on a downloaded music file and have it auto added to the library, including moving the location into the new library structure (from where it was downloaded)?

(Currently if I double click on a music file, it can add it to MM, but it stays where it is and doesn't move it to the new library file structure)

I have Gold and am running on Windows 11 if that helps.

Thanks for any help and advice.

[IanRTaylorUK]

Hi Jason,

I would recommend placing the file(s) in a folder e.g. Drive:\Downloads - perhaps an album or artist at a time.

You can then have a "Collection" (Tools / Options / Library / Collections and Views) with the key columns set view e.g. Album Artist / Artist / Disc / Track / Title.

Now if you set your scanning to include this folder (File / Add Files to the library) MMW5 will display the folder contents (sometimes a few seconds delay) if the schedule is "Continuous".

The main point is you can then check the tags that will determine the location before you select an Artist / Album (or All files in the Collection view).

The final thing is to set-up Auto-Organise (Tools / Options / Library / Auto-Organise. For example, I use:

"\\Network Share or Drive\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Title>" for the criteria "Collections:Music"

If you automatically "organise" without checking the "key" tags you are using for the "organise" then you could end up with a bit of a mess!

P.S. I find it best NOT to set album artwork until the files are in the final location!

[Jason Hillard]

Thank you, I will give that a try.

Much appreciated.