What's New in V5: Difference between revisions

From MediaMonkey Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 2: Line 2:


What's New?
What's New?
  * modern look
  * A new modern look and feel
  * automated metadata lookup
  * Auto-tagging with auto-fingerprint-based lookup
  * casting to Google cast devices
  * Casting to Google cast devices
  * integration with online services for synchronization, browsing and metadata lookup
  * Integration with online services for synchronization, browsing and metadata lookup
  * improved search and filtering functionality
  * Improved search and filtering functionality
* In-place playlist editing via new playlist windows
* Auto-playlists with nested search functionality
* Improved play controls (play shuffled, shuffled by album, stop after)
* More advanced editing tools in the Preview window
* Browser modes and immersive Playing modes that display Artist, Album metadata, Lyrics
* Pinned items (Favorites)
* Database backup and restore
* Touch mode for tablets
* + more...


What's different?
What's different?
  * Tree functionality: show all subnodes / focus tree nodes when browsing
  * The UI is now divided into configurable 'panels'. The right (Playing) and left (tree) panels can be toggled. 
* The tree can be disabled entirely, if desired using breadcrumbs and 'Media Nodes' to navigate
* Devices (and services) are now configurable as 'Media Nodes'
* The 'View' switcher still switches between Views, where each View defines 'View Type', Columns & Sorts, and incorporated View Elements. Views are saved per Node (where node= Collection > Node, Collection > Node > Subnode , Now Playing, Playlists), so that for example, if you switch from Artists to Albums the View can change depending on how you configure it. (View Type defines non-configurable elements of the View).
* The Tree by default is only one level deep. If you prefer to navigate using the tree, click the ⋮ symbol in the tree, and enable 'Show all subnodes'.
  * Search changes (overview) + Filters
  * Search changes (overview) + Filters
  * Burning (0016592)
  * Burning (0016592)
* Views / panels
  * Old skins and addons not working (winamp plugins still do)
  * Old skins and addons not working (winamp plugins still do)
* Pinned list

Revision as of 03:44, 20 December 2020

MediaMonkey 5 is a major release of MediaMonkey. This page summarizes some of the new features and changes.

What's New?

* A new modern look and feel
* Auto-tagging with auto-fingerprint-based lookup
* Casting to Google cast devices
* Integration with online services for synchronization, browsing and metadata lookup
* Improved search and filtering functionality
* In-place playlist editing via new playlist windows
* Auto-playlists with nested search functionality
* Improved play controls (play shuffled, shuffled by album, stop after)
* More advanced editing tools in the Preview window
* Browser modes and immersive Playing modes that display Artist, Album metadata, Lyrics
* Pinned items (Favorites)
* Database backup and restore
* Touch mode for tablets
* + more...

What's different?

* The UI is now divided into configurable 'panels'. The right (Playing) and left (tree) panels can be toggled.  
* The tree can be disabled entirely, if desired using breadcrumbs and 'Media Nodes' to navigate
* Devices (and services) are now configurable as 'Media Nodes'
* The 'View' switcher still switches between Views, where each View defines 'View Type', Columns & Sorts, and incorporated View Elements. Views are saved per Node (where node= Collection > Node, Collection > Node > Subnode , Now Playing, Playlists), so that for example, if you switch from Artists to Albums the View can change depending on how you configure it. (View Type defines non-configurable elements of the View).
* The Tree by default is only one level deep. If you prefer to navigate using the tree, click the ⋮ symbol in the tree, and enable 'Show all subnodes'.
* Search changes (overview) + Filters
* Burning (0016592)
* Old skins and addons not working (winamp plugins still do)