I like that you can sort in different ways so it is easy to delete the 1 and 2 sec recordings.
It doesn't show any frequencies or TGIDs and before the end on one recording have been reach it begins to play the next file and makes a terrible audio mess.
/Ubbe
MediaMonkey, being meant for music libraries, is not really meant for cataloging our recordings, but I use it every week to sort all the files from my two HP1s, 436, and 536 all at once.
I have a folder on my PC called "Scanner Recordings", in which I have four subfolders, "436", "536", "HP1 Work", and "HP1 Home". When I plug in my scanners to do the weekly database update, I navigate on their SD cards to the folder \HomePatrol\audio\user_rec\ (or \BCDx36HP\audio\user_rec\), then cut and paste (or move) all the folders in that folder to the appropriate folder in \Scanner Recordings\. That moves the files all onto my computer and off the scanner.
Then when I run MM after copying all the files, I just point it at \Scanner Recordings\ and choose the 'All' option in the media tree. That will show me all the recordings from all the scanners, all at once.
The following columns will show the following data items in MM:
Artist - shows the System Name.
Genre - shows the Department Name.
Title - shows the Channel Name.
Conductor - shows the UID or Alias (on a trunk system).
Comment - on the HP1, shows the TG ID, i.e. '304' instead of Channel Name 'C13 North Dispatch'.
Album - Always either HomePatrol or BCDx36HP depending on your scanner.
Album Artist - Always the same as Artist (System Name).
Date - Always the current year.
Track # - Always the current year.
EDIT: Forgot to mention. If you don't have some of these columns in your display, you can customize it to see them. Right-click on any of the headings (i.e. "Title") and you will get a pick list of what columns you want to see (it scrolls because there are so many possibilities). Personally, I show: Artist, Genre, Title, Conductor, Path, Length, File Size, and Comment, in that order. Just click on them to select/de-select them.
There's one item you cannot display on the main view in MM and that is the discovered Tone/DCS/NAC/Color Code. You have to go into File Properties to see it, and it's on the second page (Details) under data tag ISRC. Quick way to get to this is to highlight a file (recording), press Shift+Enter, and then right arrow once. From the Details page, you can scroll up and down through your list of recordings with Alt+LeftArrow or Alt+RightArrow.
Note in my experience you may find some files with very small file sizes with ridiculously large duration/lengths - i.e. 612 bytes and 74 hours in length. I typically throw everything under 1 second (between 16 and 18 kilobtyes) away, as they're too short for me to discover anything useful from them.
If you were using ID Scan mode on a trunk system, you may see the title (channel name) come up as part of a date, instead of "Unknown" or the TGID. I believe this is because the channel name is blank (null) in the saved file off the scanner. Same happens when you get CC (Close Call) hits. They appear as the most recent system the radio received, plus a null title/channel name.
The one thing that MM does not show, and I wish I knew why, is the (relatively) new slot, color, TG, and UID that you get on DMR conventional channels with a blank/default channel name. I don't think Uniden is using a standard metadata tag to carry that info.
To get around the issue with recordings playing one after the other and overlapping one another (aka "crossfade"), you have to tweak a couple settings in MediaMonkey itself. I personally prefer that the program only play the one file I have highlighted, rather than playing them all in sequential order. So go to Tools>Options in the MM title bar, then go to the Player heading in the tree to the left of that window. Make sure "Default 'Double-Click' Action" (in the right side pane) is set to "Play Now". Then, in the left tree, go to "Playback Rules", and make the "'Play Now' Action" (on the right) set to "Clear list & play selected only". Those settings will let it play only the file you have highlighted, which you can play by double-clicking it or pressing Enter when it's highlighted.
If you'd prefer to have it play a bunch of files in a row automatically, Change the "'Play Now' Action" to "Clear list & play selected + subsequent", then above that, put a checkmark in the box marked "Disable Crossfading". That will make it play one entire file and then play the next, without overlapping them.
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