MediaMonkey database integration?

[hakko]

How does MediaMonkey store ratings and play counts? In file tags or in some kind of database?

[rockportrait]

Yep, aware of that. Just stating how my commercial dev team (usually) works. He has done a great job, & I don't see anything out there going close to matching what he has made. Having said that, he has chosen to create a premium version (which I've paid for) and therefore must consider consumer demand. I imagine he could do quite well out of this over time, given what people want out of their home entertainment these days. I read through quite a bit of that list, and there seems to be an awful lot in there that would apply to a very select few. I'm just saying that some priority re-ordering could well be in order.

[BKKKPewsey]

How does MediaMonkey store ratings and play counts? In file tags or in some kind of database?

MM stores the ratings in the <popm> tag - using in its own format (and also in the DB) but the play counts are in the DB only

Note: If you want to keep your MM play counts in sync then scrobble to Last FM.
You can then import that data into MM using an addon.
This also updates the played date/time within MM

[hakko]

I import play counts from last.fm nightly into my Subsonic mod, I think that's a smoother way of integrating media players than having to specify a directory where MediaMonkey is installed and parsing data from their database. It also allows you to use different media players at different locations, scrobble everything to last.fm and then fetch stats from there and have everything summoned.

Maybe not ideal since last.fm doesn't have APIs for everything you'd like to do, but still better than individual integrations between all different media players... ?