MediaMonkey Readme
November 8, 2010
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1. Introduction

MediaMonkey is an easy-to-use media organizer for serious music collectors. It catalogs
music files (MP3s, WMAs, OGG, AAC/M4A, MPC, APE, FLAC, VQF, WAV files) and audio CDs, and helps you:

   - Organise your music and help you find the tracks you're looking for
   - Tag tracks in your library (automatically) in a variety of formats (ID3v1&v2, OGG, WMA, APE2, RIFF)
   - Play MP3s and other audio formats, level volume, and display funky visualizations
   - Synchronize tracks with your portable audio player 
   - Record CDs into OGG, MP3, and WMA files
   - Convert any supported format into into OGG, WAV, MP3 or WAV files
   - Create playlists and music mixes quickly (manually or automatically) to suit any occasion
   + Much, much more...


2. OS Requirements

MediaMonkey is supported on:
   - Windows 7
   - Windows Vista
   - Windows XP

MediaMonkey is also known to work, but is unsupported on:
   - Windows 2000 (SP3/SP4)
   - Windows 98 SE
   - Windows ME
   - WINE (Linux)


3. Installation

a) Double-click the file you downloaded, and follow the on-screen instructions.

b) If you had a previous version of MediaMonkey Gold installed, and deleted it prior to
   installing the new version of MediaMonkey, then the configuration settings of your Virtual CD
   will be lost.  Go to: Tools | Options | Virtual CD & Preview, and reset the Virtual CD directory 
   to its previous location.

c) If no sound is heard when you try to play a track, you may want to try switching output plug-ins.
   Go to Tools | Options | Player | Output Plug-ins and change from  DirectSound output to
   WaveOut output.

d) If you have problems playing or encoding WMA (Window Media Audio) files, it may
   be due to outdated Windows Media Drivers. You can install the most recent drivers from:
   http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx

   Note: MediaMonkey supports WMA DRM 9, but does not yet support files protected by WMA DRM 10.


4. Advanced Configuration

a) Command line options
   A number of flags can be set when running MediaMonkey from the command line:
   /NoSplash      - don't show splash screen when starting MediaMonkey 
   /Next          - play files after the current track
   /Add           - add files to the Now Playing queue
   /Party         - start up in Party Mode
   /Play          - start up and play whatever is currently in the Now Playing queue
   /ResetToolbars - resets toolbar configuration to default settings

   You can use these options as follows: 
   MediaMonkey /NoSplash /Add "My song.mp3"


5. Known Issues

   Please see our support page: http://mediamonkey.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view


6. Feedback and Questions

If you have any comments or questions, we'd be happy to hear from you.  Contact 
information follows: 

   - Support Requests: http://mediamonkey.com/support

   - Discussion Forums: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum


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