[nerys]

Media Monkey is awesome! I love media monkey. Itunes is mandatory sadly. Media Monkey will not properly handle podcasts or videos or audible for the little ipod it worked fine for the 4th gen ipod but pukes on the 5th gen ipod so clearly apple once again putz'd with something to break third party software. Hopefully media monkey will update and I can once again ditch itunes.. I need itunes for that sadly. I DO NOT use itunes to manage my music. I manage my music and use itunes strictly to "move" the information to the ipod. I also do not use media money for managing my music. I manage my music just fine using my folder structures. Works great. I use media monkey for light metadata editing and playback while editing.

For heavy duty editing such as songs with no metadata or bulk edits I use ID3-TagIt (media moneky can do similar work but is much slower)

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alas most of my books are in txt and pdf format and neither of which seem to have any metadata (so far none have had data already when I put them in calibre) it does do a good job of getting it though I have had it come up with some verboes titles :-)

I was largely intrigued by the SUMMARY included with the metadata but then I realized there is no easy way for me to READ the summary except IN calibre which would be extremely cumbersome beyond a few dozen titles since the original txt and pdf file do not hold metadata and the lrf file is not readable on my computer unless I install the unwanted sony software (is there a simple freeware lrf reader anywhere?)

I wish I could just go epub for the sony but the firmware has extreme issues for my model sony so I won't upgrade.