Toolbox

This page contains information on and links to software tools you may find useful for editing metadata, creating playlists, etc.

These are the best of the basics:

• Metadata editor http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
• Metadata editor for Mac http://sbooth.org/Max/
• Metadata viewer Windows Explorer plugin http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
• Batch encoders http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
• Media library management and tag editor http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

Playlist creation with Twonky Media Server

In order to successfully create playlists for use in Twonky Media, here are some tips:

Twonky assumes that playlists that are scanned contain links that are indexed from the location of the playlist. This makes Twonky sensitive to where you up load any playlists with relative references.
Twonky is agnostic to "\" or "/" dir separators, but it is unlikely that it can "fix" mappings between a Linux view of the file system (on the NAS) and the SAMBA view (on Windows) from the Playlist creator if absolute links are used.
Most playlist creating tools default to producing playlists with absolute links to items.
Those that do allow relative paths, default to absolute paths. Out of the ones listed here, only Media Monkey defaults to relative paths.

Playlist creation tools

The following table lists the behaviours of common playlist creation tools

Application	Playlist Types	Comments
WINAMP	M3U	Creates playlists at global root for UNC paths. All items fully qualified drive and path for local files, "export" functionality in sub menu
WINAMP	PLS	As M3U above, No options
WMP11	WPL	global root for UNC paths, automatic export to "my documents/my music/my playlists" not settable
MUSICIP	XSPF	global root for UNC paths, fully qualified drive and path for local files, "export" functionality in sub menu, "linking" application playlist with on disk playlist, "Use Relative Paths" OFF by default, "Use Extended M3u"
MUSICIP	M3U	as above
MEDIAMONKEY	M3U	local files relative, (I'm guessing relative to Playlist location...)
MP3TAG	M3U	fully qualified drive and path for local files

More tools

• Album art aggregator (find missing album art for your digital music collection) http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA/
• Ripcaster (contains links to various useful tools) https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/120
• Tag and rename (multi-format tagging tool) http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm