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MediaMonkey 2.2.2 Readme - August 30, 2004
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1. Introduction
MediaMonkey is an easy-to-use media organizer for serious music collectors. It catalogs
music files (MP3s, WMAs, OGG, MPC, APE, VQF, WAV files) and audio CDs, and helps you:
- Organise your music and help you find the tracks you're looking for
- Tag tracks in your library (automatically) in a variety of formats (ID3v1&v2, OGG, WMA, APE2)
- Play MP3s and other audio formats, level volume, and display funky visualizations
- Synchronize tracks with your portable audio player
- Record CDs into OGG, MP3, and WMA files
- Convert any supported format into into OGG, WAV, MP3 or WAV files
- Create playlists and music mixes quickly (manually or automatically) to suit any occasion
+ Much, much more...
2. OS Requirements
MediaMonkey has been tested on:
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000 (SP3/SP4)
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT 4
3. Installation
a) Double-click the file you downloaded, and follow the on-screen instructions.
b) If you had a previous version of MediaMonkey Gold installed, and deleted it prior to
installing the new version of MediaMonkey, then the configuration settings of your Virtual CD
will be lost. Go to: Tools | Options | Virtual CD & Preview, and reset the Virtual CD directory
to its previous location.
c) Note: If you receive a database-related error, it likely means that data access components on your
operating system aren't up-to-date or have been corrupted. If this occurs:
-Install the latest version of Jet Drivers appropriate to your operating system
(version 4.0 SP8 for all OSes except WinME) via:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downloads/updates/default.aspx#jet
-AFTER the Jet drivers have been installed, install MDAC 2.7 Service Pack 1 Refresh via:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downloads/updates/default.aspx#MDACDownloads
This should trigger components of the Jet drivers to register, after which your system
(& MediaMonkey) should function properly.
d) If no sound is heard when you try to play a track, you may want to try switching output plug-ins.
Go to Tools | Options | Player | Output Plug-ins and change from DirectSound output to
WaveOut output.
e) If you have problems playing or encoding WMA (Window Media Audio) files, it may
be due to outdated Windows Media Drivers. You can install the most recent drivers from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx
Note: MediaMonkey does not currently support WMA drm-protected files.
f) If you try to generate a report or use Scripting functions and receive an error, it is likely
because Windows Scripting functionality hasn't been enabled (sometimes the case in Windows 98).
The error that appears is "Microsoft VBScript runtime error. ActiveX component can't create
object: 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' ". If this occurs on Win98, go to the Control Panel and:
-Click 'Add/Remove Programs'
-Select the 'Windows Setup' Tab
-Choose 'Accssories' (List) and click 'Details'
-Check that "Windows Scripting Host" is checked off
4. Advanced Configuration
a) Command line options
A number of flags can be set when running MediaMonkey from the command line:
/NoSplash - don't show splash screen when starting MediaMonkey
/Next - play files after the current track
/Add - add files to the Now Playing queue
You can use these options as follows:
MediaMonkey /NoSplash /Add "My song.mp3"
b) .ini file customization
MediaMonkey saves configuration information on a per-user basis to an .ini file stored in:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERX\My Documents\My Music\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.ini
Advanced users can edit the mediamonkey.ini file to change several settings. If you
plan on making such changes, it's prudent to back up your .ini file beforehand. Also
make certain to close MediaMonkey before making such changes so that it doesn't
overwrite any of the changes you've made.
i) To change the text associated with the fields Custom 1, Custom 2, and Custom 3 add the
following to the .ini file:
[CustomFields]
Fld1Name=Xxxxx
Fld2Name=Yyyyy
Fld3Name=Zzzzz
Where Xxxxx, Yyyyy, Zzzzz is the text that you would like to appear for each respective field.
ii) To change the location of the database from a specific user's \My Music folder
move the .mdb database file from its current location in the \My Music directory
and add the following line to the [System] section of the .ini file:
DBName=full path\filename.mdb (for example DBName=C:\My Documents\Databases\music.mdb)
iii)To eliminate illegal characters when auto creating file names from tags, there is a section
[FilenameMappings] in the .ini file, where hexadecimal values define mappings between characters.
For example E1=61 means that "/" is mapped to "a". You can modify these settings if you're
adventurous. You can find hexadecimal values of characters in the "Character map" application
included with Windows. Note that unicode is not supported in this feature.
iv) To change the manner in which MediaMonkey attempts to interpret Track Properties from track
organization and filename, edit the [SongMasks] section (MediaMonkey attempts to match the masks
in that section in sequential order).
c) Shared environments
If you wish to share MediaMonkey's configuration file and or database among multiple users:
i) Move the MediaMonkey.ini file to the \Program Files\MediaMonkey directory. This will cause
all users to have the same MediaMonkey settings, however, you must make sure that all
users have appropriate permissions to read/write to this directory.
ii) Ensure that your MediaMonkey database has correctly set permissions so that all users
can read/write to the database.
5. Known Issues
a) Problems playing CDs and/or failed CD scans and Freedb lookups.
First verify that CD sound hasn't been 'muted'. Double-click the speaker icon in the system
tray, and ensure that 'mute' is not checked off for both Wave/MP3 and CD Audio.
i) On some systems (usually on a Win9x system with multiple CD drives using ASPI drivers),
MediaMonkey will have trouble playing CDs or play the CD but display an error message,
due to an incorrect mapping between physical drives and their associated drive letter.
This typically occurs when drive letters and IDE interfaces are not in the same order.
On most systems this can be resolved by configuring the the CD Reader Input Plug-in:
-Click 'Tools'|'Options'|'Input Plug-ins'|'CD Reader' and press 'Configure'
-Highlight each drive, and Configure each interface to use 'Win32' instead of 'ASPI'
OR
-Highlight each drive, press 'Configure' and change the 'ASPI device' to the physical
device that actually maps to the drive letter in question.
Once you press 'Ok' (3x) and exit the options dialog, your problem should be solved.
ii) On some Win9x systems, it may be necessary to reassign Windows CD Drive letters to match
the order of IDE interfaces. e.g.
IDE Interface Current Mapping New Mapping
cd1 IDE2 Master D: E:
cd2 IDE1 Slave E: D:
To remap a Windows 9x CD drive:
-Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
-Double-click the System icon, and then click the Device Manager tab.
-Click the CD-ROM drive you want to change, and then click the Properties button.
-Click the Settings tab.
-In the Reserved Drive Letters section, set Start Drive Letter and End Drive Letter to the
drive letter you want the CD-ROM drive to use. Click OK until you return to Control Panel.
-Restart the computer.
More information about how Windows assigns drive letters can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;234048
iii)If you continue to have problems playing CDs and/or receive "Win32 Raw_Read" error messages, you
should consider installing version 4.6 of Adaptec's ASPI drivers. This will solve 2 problems:
1) CD drive failure because user is not logged in as administrator. Windows NT/2000/XP systems
use SPTI CD drivers by default, and these can fail if the user is not logged in as Administrator.
ASPI drivers, on the other hand, don't have this problem.
2) CD drive failure because ASPI drivers have been somehow corrupted.
More information & working aspi drivers may be found at:
http://aspi.radified.com/aspi.htm
If you still experience error messages, you can disable digital CD playback, by deleting
the in_cdreader.dll plug-in from the \plugins directory.
b) Failure to erase CD-RWs with MediaMonkey.
Generally this occurs on systems with multiple CD drives, and the problems occur with Nero
independently of MediaMonkey. Since MediaMonkey relies on Nero for CD burning, any CD
erasing/burning problems that occur with Nero when another media player is open, are
likely to occur with MediaMonkey as well. To avoid this, use CD-R media.
c) Problems editing properties when tags are in a language that is right to left.
This occurs if track properties are in Hebrew or Arabic. To get around this problem:
-Got to Tools|Options|Appearance|Skins and enable [x] Override Skin Theme with Windows System Theme
d) Problem playing/tagging/analyzing volume of WMA tracks with filenames containing non Western
European characters. MediaMonkey supports almost any foreign language that is supported by Windows.
In order to enable foreign language support, Windows must be configured with the foreign language in
question as the default language (e.g. if you wish to play/tag/level tracks that have filenames with
Russian characters, Russian must be configured as the default language in Windows. This can be done
via: Control Panel | Regional Settings using the 'Set default...' button. Note: this problem occurs
with formats other than MP3 and OGG.
e) Unable to get 'Level Volume' to work on tracks with filenames containing non Western European
characters. Level Volume is currently not supported for such files.
f) Problems using multimedia keyboard player keys on some Logitech keyboards--if the multimedia keys
are used while MediaMonkey is minimized, the tracks keep skipping. To get around this, add one of
the following entries to the Players.ini file included with the keyboard drivers:
1) MediaMonkey=cmd,MediaMonkey.exe,Winamp v1.x,xxx,xxx,40045,40046,40047,40044,40048,0,1,MediaMonkey
(this sends WinAmp compatible messages to MediaMonkey)
2) MediaMonkey=wac,MediaMonkey.exe,Winamp v1.x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,0,1,MediaMonkey
(this handles playback control directly to MediaMonkey)
g) Database corruption errors.
If you receive database corruption errors, the likely cause is that Microsoft MDAC and Jet drivers
are not up to date. Try the following:
a) Click File | Maintain Database | Compact Database command . This may resolve the issue.
b) Install updated MDAC/Jet drivers as described in the installation section (3c) above.
6. Tips
a) How to enable cross-fading between Tracks:
If you are using Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP, you can enable crossfading or gapless
playback via the included DirectSound output plugin:
-Go to Tools|Options|Output plug-ins and set DirectSound as the output plug-in if it isn't already.
-Click the 'Configure' button to configure the plugin.
To enable crossfading:
-Select the 'Fading' tab
-Change the default fade length to 600ms
-Double-click 'On start' and then 'On end of song' to enable fading
-Click 'Apply' and then 'OK'
To enable gapless playback:
-Select the 'Buffering' tab
-Increase the 'Buffer length' to 5000ms
-Increase 'Buffer-ahead on track change' to 3000ms
-Select the 'Fading' tab
-Ensure that fading is disabled for 'on start', 'on first start', and 'on end of song'
since if fading is active, gapless playback will be disabled.
-Select the 'Other' tab
-Check "Remove silence..."
Note: another excellent option is the Sqrsoft crossfading plugin which allows gapless playback
AND crossfading concurrently: http://www.sqrsoft.com.ar/en/index.html. To use this plugin,
after installing it to the WinAmp directory, you'll have to manually copy OUTSQR.DLL and
the ACF directory to the \mediamonkey\plugins directory. This plug-in is known to have problems
on some systems, though.
7. Plug-in Configuration: DeFX for Winamp v0.97
DeFX by Franco Catrin is included with MediaMonkey, allowing you to use MediaMonkey for karaoke via
its voice removal function. The full features of DeFX are:
a) Pitch Modulation. Choose between Chorus, Flange or Phaser (New), and set your favourite
configuration, changing Rate, Depth and Amount of effect.
b) Voice Removal. Remove the center channel depending of the specified amount. Most singers
record their voices on this channel, if so, the voice will be removed.
c) Reverberation. Make your music sounds like it were played inside/outside a big room.
Pitch change, rise or move down the pitch of the song without affecting tempo.
d) Balance. Lets you hear only the left or right channel on both speakers.
To activate this plug-in, simply go to Tool|Options|Plugins|DSP Effects and make Defx active.
Press Configure and you'll see a message box asking you to launch the control panel, just press OK.
For more information about how the voice removal effect works and a full version history, see:
-The DeFXInfo.htm file in the plugins directory
-The new Defx www site at: http://defx.sourceforge.net/
If you want to contact Franco, write to ancelot@directo.cl. For information about future updates
send a mail with the subject "I use DeFX" to be added to a mail list.
THANKS to all the people who have give some attention to this little plug-in. All the people who
have helped me without knowing it, publishing their knowledge on the Internet... the real democracy!.
A great kiss (ah!) to my dear girlfriend Claudia (Kuaria) for his support, love, comprehension and
everything she knows =D
Many thanks also to Claudia's brother Miguel (ex-Mr_Peco, now cibersurfer_master) Claudio Nicora for
his great idea to improve the Voice Removal effect. As you may see... it's IMPLEMENTED from v0.97,
Marc S. Ressl for his help in the MuchFX bug, Guillermo Vargas and family for their continuos support,
from the '80s, Johanne for his first lessons about audio when we worked together when I was I child.
More friends and their ideas: Cesar Hernandez, Giorgio Marazzi, Rafael Ramirez, JUCA, Pastelito....
Franco Catrin L.
Email: ancelot@directo.cl
Homepage: http://www.ancelot.8k.com
ICQ: Ancelot (30449379)
8. Plug-in Configuration: CD Reader
CD Reader by Vladimir Kopjov is a fantastic input plug-in that improves the quality of Audio CD
playback, and makes it more reliable, especially when multiple CD Drives are present.
CD Reader is installed by default with MediaMonkey, and can be configured via
Tools | Options | Input Plug-ins
For more information about CD Reader, see in_cdreader.txt in the Plugins directory.
9. Feedback and Questions
If you have any comments or questions, we'd be happy to hear from you. Contact
information follows:
- Discussion Forums: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum
- Technical support e-mail: support@mediamonkey.com
- Homepage: http://www.mediamonkey.com
10. Acknowledgements
MediaMonkey has become what it is thanks to a large extended community. Aside from those
already mentioned in the 'About' panel, special thanks go to:
- Tyll Zybura & Highelf for the German translation
- Pablo Schmerkin for the Spanish translation
- Octopod for the French translation
- Oliver Tonet for the Italian translation
- Felix Atagong, UI & Lowlander for the Dutch translation
- Paulino Michelazzo for the Portuguese translation
- Pavle Lacarac (aka Peke) for work on the plugins
- Russell Samuels for doing all the stuff no one else wants to
- Jiri Hajek for coding into the wee hours every morning and selling his soul to the monkey
+ Countless testers and reviewers who've helped MediaMonkey grow every day
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Copyright (c) 2004, Ventis Media, Inc.