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>How do I fix my files from having an unknown artist? For many songs of mine the artist is listed on the file and the display, and yet in the file it's listed as unknown artist.

MediaMonkey maintains both and artist and album artist. One of those fields is probably blank.

There are many ways to make updates so the best method depends on how many changes you need to make. If it's just a handful, I would suggest simply selecting the songs by groups of artists and selecting properties. Then you can just fill in the missing fields.

If you have a ton of changes to make, I would suggest looking into RegExp Find & Replace add-on. There's a slight learning curve to it but I think it's well worth the time if you have a bunch of changes to make.

Or you could just use a script that someone else has created.

The method you use depends on the amount of work and your comfort level with the different approaches.

>How do I reorder the track listings in an album? A few albums of mine are in the wrong order (despite me having the correct track numbers).

That seems odd. But I would try renumbering the using the auto-increment track #s under Tools - Scripts.

>How do I change the file path of a track without mediamonkey losing track of it? I moved the file path of an album from unknown artist to the proper artist, and subsequently mediamonkey has no idea where it is. Alternatively, is there a way to manually change the files and then re-import the entire folder in a way that will not result in duplicates?

You can manually move your files and then go rescan the library. That should find the track and prompt you to remove missing tracks from the library. Personally I find it easier to use the auto-organize files feature (CRTL-R) and let MediaMonkey control the whole process.

Little late but here's the help page you were looking for: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:Configuring_Directory_and_File_Formats/4.0.

And I'm really not sure what you're trying to get for names, but you would surround the part you are trying to shorten with $Left(string,n). So something like...

E:\Music\MediaMonkey\<Year>\<Album Artist>\<Album>\$Left(<Disc#> - <Track#> - <Title>, 30)

OK, solved the problem. For future reference MM can't play .APE files with Korean (or other international) characters in the path. Per http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/24/0/tracks-with-international-characters-unicode-dont-play-or-get-analyzed-properly

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I pulled out one of the files to my desktop and it plays fine. Just the path screwing it up.

I don't know when they add updates to the search for updates feature, but I did not find one by searching.

I found this on the forum and it works.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=54426&amp;p=427605#p427605

Scripts are probably the best method to use to assign genres. There are a few out there, but the one you tried seemed to work best for me: http://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/browse/item/genre-finder/

My experience has been it works okay as a starting point but sometimes returns some pretty unexpected genre choices. But it's easier to correct the errors than to assign everything manually.

So trying to fix it probably your best option. What happened when you tried to install it?

EDIT; also, once you get the problem straightened out, you can use this tip to make for cleaner results http://cranachan.co.uk/2014/08/02/media-monkey-genre-tagging/

For me, a shuffle button appears clearly in the player module. I believe skins/themes have the capability of moving or even hiding certain elements of the player, so you may want to try some other skins if you don't see a shuffle button in the UI (I'm using G-Monkey_PS).