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| Overall Rating: |   (3.7) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (2.7) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.3) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (4.3) |
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1.7 corrupt my mp3 files while analyzing - Version: 1.6, 3/9/2007 11:18PM PST
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Vincentp
hello from France, i would love to like a product like this, but:
- it's real slow: on an imac core duo (2 Go RAM), with a library of 12000+ mp3 (a good proportion of vrb) on an external fw drive, it analysed at it's best 2000 files a day… But that could be acceptable if everything else worked flawlessly…
- it crashes at intervals (no patterns detected in the frequency… a file it doesn't like?). I think it's not acceptable.
- i stopped the analysis (at around 6000 files analysed) to apply Onyx on my start disk. When i resume analysis musicip mixer re-analysed 3000 files (the counter of files to be analysed was at 9000+ files instead of 6000!!). It was "faster" than the first analysis, treating those 3000 in about 7 hours (yes i know, "faster" is maybe not the better adjective!!). Not acceptable either.
- Last but not least: i discovear that it corrupted the ID tags (and some album covers) of nearly all the files it analysed. For ex., the name of an album "Peeping Tom" was transformed to "Peepin9 (om"; that corruption applied randomly also to the name of the file, the artist, the genre, comments… even album arts. BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES IF YOU REALLY WANT TO USE THAT SOFTWARE…
My conclusion: avoid that software or backup just before testing it
- it's real slow: on an imac core duo (2 Go RAM), with a library of 12000+ mp3 (a good proportion of vrb) on an external fw drive, it analysed at it's best 2000 files a day… But that could be acceptable if everything else worked flawlessly…
- it crashes at intervals (no patterns detected in the frequency… a file it doesn't like?). I think it's not acceptable.
- i stopped the analysis (at around 6000 files analysed) to apply Onyx on my start disk. When i resume analysis musicip mixer re-analysed 3000 files (the counter of files to be analysed was at 9000+ files instead of 6000!!). It was "faster" than the first analysis, treating those 3000 in about 7 hours (yes i know, "faster" is maybe not the better adjective!!). Not acceptable either.
- Last but not least: i discovear that it corrupted the ID tags (and some album covers) of nearly all the files it analysed. For ex., the name of an album "Peeping Tom" was transformed to "Peepin9 (om"; that corruption applied randomly also to the name of the file, the artist, the genre, comments… even album arts. BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES IF YOU REALLY WANT TO USE THAT SOFTWARE…
My conclusion: avoid that software or backup just before testing it
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- 1.7 corrupt my mp3 files while analyzing
Here's 1.7, but keep 1.6 around! - Version: 1.6, 1/28/2007 01:48PM PST
hEADcRASH
Here's the direct link to 1.7... although this version crashes on my machine when launching... :-(
This is NOT a new version release as indicated on VT where it says the relase date is 5/26/2007! (I have reported this to the VT editors, so it may have been changed by the time you are reading this)
So don't waste your time downloading the "new" version.
The idea behind MusicIP Mixer is great. When it was Magic Music Mixer it worked fine. I made some really awesome mixes with the product; loved it, paid for it. But like all marriages, we ended up in Divorce Court.
Whicken (the developer and a highly skilled Mac programmer) decided to concentrate on the Windows market instead, so he hired someone to do the Mac stuff that IMHO, wasn't nearly the programmer that Whicken is.
Apple didn't help by changing things around in iTunes and Whicken and his new Mac programmer didn't understand that many, many people keep their library and .xml file locally but store the actual music files on a server or NAS. MusicIP Mixer doesn't understand this configuration very well and so doesn't really work.
I have for example never been able to use a Mood Mix. The tracks listed in MusicIPMixer end up getting duplicated so you see every song twice.
The analysis isn't really archived correctly, so the program keeps trying to analyze the library over and over again.
And it runs as SLOW as paint drying, tying up your computer for days and days while it performs its analysis.
I stopped using the product last year and won't start again until and unless Whicken decides to pay more attention to the Mac version. He gives great lip service, but there's always some excuse: his one lone Mac developer is (pick one) sick, busy, tired, working on something else, got hired by Apple, got pulled off to work on the Windows version, can't duplicate your issue, etc.
Maybe the next version will fix everything that's wrong with this one.
As I said, Great Idea, worked really well in earlier versions under a different name, 1.7 doesn't work worth a darn now.
My advice: Avoid the product, wait and hope for Version 1.8 late in 2007.