8.9 is one of the largest earthquakes every recorded. Tokyo is still having 5-7 mag earthquakes as I write this at midnight, more than 9 hours after the first quake. I wanted to give credit to viber today, a free iphone app that lets you make voice calls over the data network.

Since everyone was trying to make calls today the network was flooded and NOBODY could make a voice call, at least I didn't see one person able to. Although, my viber app did! I was able to call my family back in the US through viber and other friends in Japan. It was like an emergency special phone. I highly recommend everyone to get it, in case these types of diasters happen again.

If you have made the switch from itunes to MediaMonkey, odds are you have a folder structure on your computer with files everywhere and a bunch of album artwork all over the place. Time to tidy things up with the monkey.

You will want to clean up your music files and have MediaMonkey auto tag them, but then you are going to want to organize them on your computer. I like to organize all my files based on Genre and then by artist. Here is how you do it!

Use Mediamonkey to organize music by genre.

Select the music you want to organize in your main window. Then click on Tools -> Auto-Organize Files...

It will open a window and show you how your files will be organized in the New Path column.

Edit the destination path with the different variables you would like to use. Be sure to include the entire directory structure on your drive so that they only get moved around within your music library.

After you set it, hit Ok and it will do the rest.

Here is an example of how I organize my music files.

F:\_MUSIC LIBRARY\<Genre>\<Artist>\<Album>\<Artist> - <Title>

If you have any problem filenames because of your rules it will say "Duplicates and overly long filenames are highlighted. Please edit them."

The software's wording here is poor because all the files are HIGHLIGHTED with a yellow color which makes us think all of them are a problem. But really, they are saying the highlighted ones, which are the ones that have the red text. So just browse down the list to find them.


 

I have long been predicting the fall of the iphone once a better alternative comes out. With the android OS growing and developers starting to develop their apps for both the iphone and the android OS it wont be much longer before people start ditching their iphones.

History always repeats itself. Doesn't this situation sound vaguely familiar. A operating system gets created, they are rivals. One limits itself to its own hardware and stringent rules, the other opens itself up, sell to multiple hardware companies all helping to market and advertise that operating system.

I swear, Apple as arrogant as it (he) is, they still set themselves up for failure. I have been saying Apple has been in the limelight far far too long. I will soon write up a more detailed post showing why Apple will lose it's lead in this market and the iphone will soon me a thing of the past.

But until then, here is a good article to show you what I am talking about.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/business/global/03android.html?_r=1

For those of you that can't stand itunes but have an iphone. MediaMonkey is your solution! It's a free music management software and about 10x better than itunes. It handles large music collections much faster and has several features that apple's itunes software lacks.

Head over to mediamonkey.com to download your free version today and ditch that bloated itunes software that isn't good for any of us.

Okay, back on track. The purpose of this post is to share something with you all that I found. It's an extension for MediaMonkey called LastFMNode. Last.fm is a fantastic online digital radio site. It has been around for many years and is one of my old favorites (late night studying and listening to music). What this extension does, is it takes the current song playing in mediamonkey and searches the last.fm database and finds similar artists and music to the one that is playing. It has a built in Auto DJ feature to enqueue songs that are similar.

So if you are like me, and just want to turn on your music player and have it play music that matches and not have to worry about djing your music collection, then this is the add-on for you!

So for any of you out there that haven't moved to mediamonkey because they couldn't live without the itunes genius functionality, YOU NOW CAN!

Download the extension here

If you have mediamonkey already installed, your computer should now what the file is. Just double click it (or run as admin) while mediamonkey is running, and it will say installation successful.

Now to configure it, click tools -> options. Then under Library, select Last.FM Node.



Here are what your settings should look like. Hover over the up and down arrows next to the numbers to see what they represent. Drop a song file into your Now Playing list and then click on tags folder and play your song.



Enjoy your Auto-DJ!