Alexander Mendez

Currently I have two main dbs of music. The main archive that lives on kobalt, contains the majority of the ratings and collection. This archive grew from my original foobar db, but that got killed by some foobar bug.  I tried to start it over, but ended up changing my default media player to MediaMonkey.  I have enjoyed Media Monkey,  lovely backup script action, last.fm scrobbling, ok skins, decently fast, and low mem usage. and nice “node” terminology to keep things nice an organized.  Back when I first got electron., I branched a 8gb or so copy of music from kobalt.  It grew, I also had to rebuild the itunes db once, and currently it is around 11-12gb.  I found this nice program, isynctunes, that will handle syncing my itunes db, and media monkey already does itunes to mm db syncing.  I should one of these days sync electron to kobalt, so that i can drop the 23gb or so of unsorted music down a bit.  But I doubt that will happen soon.  I really want to format electron, so that i can start a fresh.  but who has the time.

In any case, my current rating system is:

Delete:  On next cleaning round, just delete no need to check.

Check:  Might be a good song, but either was going to skip, or bad song.

Good:  I would keep this song, Either good for a party, or just a fun song.

Add to Playlist:  Keep on file for rotation.

Favorite Song.

I should really rate any albums that I add to the collection instead of just the singles.  meh.  I should also deal with the ~50 Protected AAC songs from itunes land, and convert them to standard mp3s, so that they can be played in all of my systems.

I also want a new hd,  I think that is something that I will bDay myself.

Finally, I just wanted to add, that I switched from foobar to media monkey since it has a better library management db structure than foobar at the time.  I do like the lightness and framework of foobar, and wish that foobar has grown a nice library management system that I should check into.  Also songbird always keeps my hopes up, but it is pretty bloaded right now, and is not as nice as mediamonkey.