My smart-alec-y wish is that the next 2.1 beta will be out already.
Here you go:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_1/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip
Been playing around with this version the past week or so. I know it's not a finished version, it might not even be a beta build as far as I know, so I don't know if this is the appropriate place to share with you my impression of the this feature, so far (or the beta forum, or bugs).
There are a couple of things that are missing, imho:
1. The ability to list all those tracks that has modified tags (out of sync, if you use Media Monkey's term for this feature).
2. Additionally, I'd love to see a feature that will enable me to sync, i.e. manually select files that are out-of-sync and save the tags stored in the data-base back to the files.
Edit Mar 1st: It seems like this feature is already available, as pointed out by redwing: select files you want to save tags to files, go to Main menu> Tools> Tagging Tools> Advanced> Synchronize Tags.
One issue/missing-feature I ran into, and here's how-to recreate it:
1. uncheck "save tags to the music file" under Preferences->Tags(1).
2. change some track's tags (title, album - whatever).
3. Exit MusicBee.
4a. Change some other tag (year, album artist) of the same track using a 3rd-party application, or:
4b. Change the track's last modification time (using
Attribute Changer, for example)
Now if you start MusicBee, it'll pick up the tags from the file again, overriding the information in the data-base. Now I need to convince you that it's not always a desirable thing:
Some nasty media players (used by other family) tend to do that and can mess up your tags (that's the 4a scenario).
That's not all. I store my media on a little 2-bay NAS and map the network drive to my PC using CIFS/SMB. I ran into an issue where by accessing the files, sometimes, their last modified time changed. The files themselves didn't change. I compared them to a backup. bit-wise identical. Not sure if it's the SMB server, Windows or some app - but it happened (see here:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=68350)
The (MediaMonkey) solution to it is to have an additional option to ignore changes to the files after they're added to the library.
Hope those makes sense and will be added in the future.
Edit: URL text is indistinguishable from text. See if you can find the two URLs included in my post.