Media Monkey does it all for my Sansa players and iTunes for my iPods. I don't really need this one. Thanks anyway.

It only takes 100 items in the list not nearly good enough thumbs down

fubar was right about xp and vista. It makes this software redundant.

Also earlier today his first comment received -31 votes at the time I read it . It shows how stupid the voting is.

I don't think that Version 1.1 was quite ready to be released from beta. Although I haven't used all features of the program, so far there are two that I find most annoying: all names of titles and artists which have (') apostrophes are replaced (shown) with (~) tildes. Anyone know how to fix this problem (changing the font is not the answer)? The other issue is assigning or editing a genre. Typing the first or second character should locate the genre, but it does not as the field is locked. Scrolling through the (non-alphabetized) list is awkward and time consuming. And having 16 lines instead of 8 in the dropdown box would be nice too.

I downloaded and installed this program twice and it failed to run both times ,says it needs admin rights and the program will now exit. It 's just not worth it , I'm sure that those errors were just a glimpse of the future with this one. I'll pass on this one.

I don't think that Version 1.1 was quite ready to be released from beta. Although I haven't used all features of the program, so far there are two that I find most annoying: all names of titles and artists which have (') apostrophes are replaced (shown) with (~) tildes. Anyone know how to fix this problem (changing the font is not the answer)? The other issue is assiging or editing a genre. Typing the first or second character should locate the genre, but it does not as the field is locked. Scrolling through the (non-alphabetized) list is awkward and time consuming. And having 16 lines instead of 8 in the dropdown box would be nice too.

I am only activated for 100 downloads, and I can't figure out how to fet a registration code. Any ideas?

Installs effortlessy under Win2k. Although it requests a reboot and obviously stuffs files in the windows system directory it works out of the box (e.g. reboot).

Does not require administrative rights as opposed to vista variants (according to reports in here)

During a short testing it appeared like a nice media indexing utility. After scanning directories containing media files in a configurable list view fashion and presents the informations included in the mp3 tags.

Its advertised album & lyrics detection and fetching works but is error prone and has little room for the user to select the best option if there were any.

Users with a large collection of audio could benefit from the program by helping them to plunge through the mass while still offering basic playback options.

Dissapointed this software is limited to only 100 songs unless registered! This site admin needs to check the software closer, either the principal of a give away for the day applies or not.
As I host a link on my site advertising Free software, I am concerned I am in the position of false advertising which in my country is illegal. This site is awesome for developers and I am sure they could be enticed to submit only full software.
Here ends the rant.

There's somethings that do this better and free called iTunes and Winamp

The.mmf database files can be opened in Microsoft Access as though it is an .mdb file. This allows all sorts of elaborate queries and reports. Keeper!

Used this for a bit and it has a design flaw, presumably because it uses Access style data-base and an ill thought out query language the developer converts all Appostraphies in Track, Album, Artist, composer and in fact any stored text to a Tilde character and does not convert them back when using them to re-display the data or when searching online for data, which means when an artist or band name or album or track name contains an apostraphe this program cannot retrieve the online data because it sends a Tilde which does not match an apostraphe "'" does not equal "~"

Even if program is installed in a location where a restricted user has full read/write/create rights it still demands admin rights in order to run, if it really does have to use admin rights then it should request elevation if it really wishes to claim compatability with Vista and above.

#49 developers should properly version check the files they install and install them in the applications folder if they have to use an older or custom version of a DLL or OCX.

A rookie database mistake this one, in the database I've made with a couple of thousand songs, several artists have albums called "Greatest Hits" If I look at "Album Tracks" of any of the artists with that same album name it lists ALL the tracks regardless of the fact the dates, artists or composers etc do not match at all!

I was about to uninstall this because I use iTunes for my music management. But I noticed that it had a "compact and repair" command just like Microsoft Access. I develop applications in Access so I was interested to see if the data files were renamed .mdb files. Yes! This means I can construct elaborate queries in SQL to find information and to write reports. Cool!

tried to create data base, but after +- 5000 songs (20% of my music collection) Mysongdatabase 1.1 freezes up....
(XP pro 3rd, 8 gig ram Core duo 2.66) so I guess it’s limited to med size collections only!!! ) I’m very disappointed! I was looking forward to a program which does what it says...what a waste of bandwidth!

For #10 and others, I got this tip here quite some time ago and it seems a lot of people are looking for a data base that can be searched. Check out this free program:
http://www.tjelinek.com/main.php?section=d&setLng=EN

The program is Disk Explorer Professional, free and has saved my a** a number of times. It allows me to catalogue/scan all my backups (cd or DVD) and search them for a file or program. Wildcards can be used if you can't remember the exact name. I just use it as a database, but I believe it is quite good with music as well.

L8Guy

i checked out this download and agree it offers liottle more than MS Media player.I want a simple program that can filter, and delete duplicates of "songs" by the same artist from my libary.

#44 maybe you should read the instructions - along with mny others!

"Automatically search and add all your music files scanning your disk folders."

I have been using CDTrustee since 2001 on Windows ME. It uses GraceNote to get the info on your CD. It reads your CD info directly from the CD. Just put your CD into your CD drive, and WOALLA you have the info you need.
I have over 31,000 songs and 2100 CD's. There is a trial version athttp://www.base40.com/cdt.htm. Mike the creator is very helpful. The way I understand the beginning statement is that you have to scan in your CD folders, which are in all sizes, colors and shapes. I cannot imagine doing that.
Let me know if you want more info. Typing is very hard for me due to deformaties in my hands but I will do my best to answer you.
Just try it and be surprised how simple it is to use.
I used this program before I even iknew WMA existed. I find CDTrustee's reports far superior than trying to read all info in WMA.
I miss the games, too. You can get a small no. of free games on Amazon for trial.

You can substitute the Registration name with your own (as with all FOTIS software), but keep the registration code as is.

Won't run on Vista, even with Admin privileges and after a reboot. Uninstalled it. Complete waste of time.

The install seemed to dump a lot in /windows/system32 which is something I'm typically wary of.

The program has a lot of features, but as someone else already noted, the interface is pretty dated. The sorting options are also pretty limited.

Doesn't handle songs tagged with foreign language characters well at all. Keeps kicking out "94 Invalid use of null" errors.

It has potential, but I couldn't see paying $30 for it, with all the better working, more polished and free alternatives out there.

I gave up trying to run this on Windows Server 2008 (where my music library lives). Looks like this is a VB6 application, of the Win98/Win2000 era, which is why it is hard-coded with the c:\program files, etc. Uninstalled....

Downloaded and installed OK.
Registered OK.
(Vista 64, 4GB.)

Started scanning my music-disk, but got stopped by DEP (Data execution prevention). Crashed the application, restart gave some sort of java-error(?).

Same happened after reinstall.

Uninstalled.

Went back to using Winamp (free, winamp.com) to automatically update file-information and Mp3tag (free, but donate if you like it www.mp3tag.de/en/) to update images and file-names. Newest version of mp3tag is a vast improvement.

No 25 - If you're that paranoid about this kind of thing you should be using a virtual machine - keep your precious 'real' OS squeaky clean by not actually having any software on it.

#9 I do not think that Windows search 4 applies to vista 32-- SP2, which many may have...

Installed but it does not work.
It insists to try to access a file at a specific folder at drive C:, but I do not have drive C:, and it is not reconfigurable, right?
I do not know how to make it work.

This sounds like the solution to a problem I have had properly tracking and locating over 4,000 songs on my PC. I hope it is as great as it sounds - it seems someone wrote this just for me! Thanks SO much!

Initially I'm not very impressed, having to reboot to complete the installation process, I thought that was a thing of the past.

I DOWNLOADED THIS & IT ASKED FOR A REGISTRATION CODE. USLESS

Can't access networked drives, and all my music is on a network drive.

If you want to see a really sharp media player and organizer, have a look at the (always) free application "Songbird". It's able to import data about your music collection from iTunes or the files on the computer (Linux, Windows and Mac), supports MP3/WMA/FLAC/etc., includes a web browser, can stream the media, and can be extended with plug-ins that let you buy music, concert tickets, etc. It will display artist information and pictures, reviews, etc. I've had a hard time using other media players and organizers since I found it.

And no, I'm not connected with the development team in any way. Just a user who likes the software. It's everything iTunes and Windows Media Player SHOULD BE.

Doesn't support searching mapped network drives. Seems pretty archaic too me.

#17: You need to right click on the program, and select "Run as Administrator". Quite a few Vista programs require this.


Web Wanderer

To run as Administrator just right-click on the icon and select "Run as Administrator:)

I can't scan network drives in my library? Instant uninstall.

Way to go GOTD,,,, thanks for this give away.... You have my vote ++++

I my grande library of music stored all over the place so it's great to be able to put it all in one data base and know I have it without having to do a search each time.

+++++ GOTD

16. and 17. above. Right click on the application and choose run as administartion. Simple but stupid!

Nice program, works well on Vista 64 gateway laptop, 4 gig RAM. For those of you wondering what is the point, these guys are ofering for music what they have in past giveaways offered for books and movies. Allmybooks and allmymovies are fantastic cataloging programs that I would love to see offered again. As my books and movies are not stored on my computer, those programs fill a need. Music is not stored, accessed, etc the same way and as such the company should recognize that the customer/user already has many powerful tools at their command for music stored on their computer. Allmymusic works as advertised but not that helpful of a program.

Ditto on Datacrow Jack.

I've been wondering the same thing as #15... is GAOTD discontinuing the game giveaway? I wish they'd say so I'd stop checking.

Anyway, I appreciate the giveaway today, although I'm not sure I see the use for it, other than taking up my valuable hard drive space... I can't figure out how to get rid of duplicate files on my laptop. I tried KOMODO, as suggested by several on the giveaway the other day, but it completely messed up my computer. Said there wasn't enough virtual memory all the time, put the computer into safe mode, and hung up every time I pushed an application icon. After 2 days of trying to do so, I finally got into windows RESTORE and went back to before KOMODO, which fixed everything. Can anyone explain to me how to SAFELY remove the duplicate files, and clear up some hard drive space (I only have 30G to start with) without removing crucial windows files? I'm not a teckkkie...

Says "Database for cataloging music files and CD has stopped working closed the program." Didn't get a chance to enter license.

Why does this program have limitations, I thought you get the full version from this site. Why bother, you can go to a normal shareware site to get hobbled versions of software. I tried to change the genre of a folder of songs, and it says there is a limit of 100 songs unless you register!!!!!

Thanks @Jack, 9 :-)))

#19 - Datacrow is awesome! Thanks for that tip.

Set administrative privileges
http://www.fotissoftware.com/admin_dat.htm

Free WINAMP does it all. I was an avid MediaMonkey fan for 3 years and now switched to Winamp as it allows shoutcast radio listening from within the player and allows you to broadcast your own radio! Fast searches compared to MediaMonkey.

I think in this day and age for a developer to produce a simple database application like this and still ignore the rules regarding placement of the programs writable files by placing them in the Program Files tree is disgraceful, and to add to that for it to not work with vista and above virtualisation system to mitigate bad developer practises and demand being run as an Administrator is completely unacceptable. The database heirachy should be in the Application Data folder tree on a per user basis so each user can maintain their own database of tunes. In addition it indexed and added AVI files into the database, erm AVI is a video format not a song format, I don't want my recorded TV programs in a songs database!
I am concerned that it copied multiple files that require registration to act as COM servers to the windows\system32 folder and I very much doubt the versions coppied where in any sense a newer version than what is already installed and registered and that it demands a reboot which normally suggests it wants to replace files that are currently in use! So I am dreading the next reboot since it will in all probability complete the instalation of older OCX and DLL files , which may break something or defeat a previous security patch.
I am fully expecting to have to do a system restore in the near future.

@Miltos. Check http://www.fotissoftware.com/admin_dat.htm

It appears really easy to use! It just doesnt seem to be able to "see" the files in my MyMusic folder.

As usual, I find the voting on the comments to be useless. Different file types have different properties, following are those for MP3 and WMA files (at least on Vista):

Folder, Title, Subtitle, Rating, Tags (WMA), Comments, Artists, Album artist, Album, Year, # (track), Genre, Length, Bit rate, Producers (WMA), Publisher, Content provider (WMA), Media created (WMA), Encoded by, Author URL, Promotion URL (WMA), Copyright, Parental rating (WMA), Parental rating reason, Composers, Conductors, Group description, Period (WMA), Mood, Part of set, Initial key, Beats-per-minute, Protected, Name, Type, Folder path, Date created, Date modified, Size

Most are editable, many are available as columns in Windows Explorer (certainly on Vista and higher, probably on XP). Windows Search 4 should index all of them. Microsoft could easily have implemented tags for all file types, if nothing else via alternate data streams on XP and higher (many Microsoft programmers aren't even aware that NTFS supports alternate data streams), but they only implemented tags for certain file types (mostly pictures and Microsoft media file types).

I don't really care if a bunch of XP bigots or Vista users who don't know anything about Vista give my comment #8 a thumbs-down. I neglected to mention stacking in addition to sorting/filtering/grouping in Vista Explorer, but I never use stacking. If you're using XP, you can accomplish filtering via Windows Search 4 (if you're viewing a lot of files, it's faster than filtering in Explorer, anyway).

I use the Lyrics Plugin for WMP (also available for Winamp). Files selected via Windows Search 4 and/or Windows Explorer can be sent to any media player, you don't have to use WMP.

#9, Jack, Windows Search 4 already does what you want (and a whole lot more). As I said, not all file types support tags, but you can put them into the file names or comments. Don't forget, paths are indexed, so folder structures can function as tags.

A couple of FYI items. Since most GOTD users are rightly concerned about security, Agnitum has released new versions of Outpost Security Suite Pro and Outpost Firewall Pro. NVidia has released a new beta video driver. No one has ever produced a functional video driver during the entire shameful history of Windows. Apart from Windows itself, the bugs that bother me the most are those in Windows Media Center, which makes the rest of Windows look good, and those in video drivers.