Media Manager - remote/ stand-alone option ?

Asked by JustanotherAdam on September 30, 2026 - 3 replies

Im starting to get the hang of this program now, as I had issues described on another post about my music videos being mucked up as their tags wernt correct.

What im wondering is, if its able to use Media Manager on a different computer as my jukebox is in one room, and my personal computer is in another - its more comfortable to use the personal computer than working on tagging out at the jukebox. 😀

Ive tried downloading the Zenpoint demo to see if i could just run the MM, but I'm guessing its tied up to the main Digital Center program as it asked me to enter the registration code.

Currently working through all my music videos so they appear in their correct albums ... then I'll get around to adding year,genres .. etc. at another time.

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Mark Norville - September 30, 2026

Hi, not just another Adam,

I use Mp3 tag https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ it is free and I also use https://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

The mp3 gain puts all songs at an equal level handy if you want to use on other programs, or if you suddenly become a DJ and want music to be the same volume.

I do not think that you can remote control media manager but it would be far too much hassle to use media manager if you have thousands of albums, you would have far too much information.

Always best to tag using third party and then as I say you can use that on any other software.

I am sure that Rick is the better person to say if you can or not, just passing on my views.

Regards

Mark (tagging MP3's as I type, and I hate it)

JustanotherAdam - September 30, 2026

Thanks Mark, yeah ive used both those programs for my audio over the years , but now ive just started to use MM for tagging the music videos. All my current videos have been tagged for E-Touch (Non-mp3 tagger) so i know all the file names are correct, wasnt untill ive been getting into Zenpoint recently that i have only just realised it reads the info inside the MP4 file!

So thats the stage im at now ... fixing up the MP4's for Zenpoint.

Just wasnt sure if Mp3Tag would do the job right for Media Manager/Zenpoint

Mark Norville - September 30, 2026

HI Adam,

You can use MP3 Tag for music videos as well. I do mine on it, if you know how to export, this is my export file

$filename(%_filename%.nfo,utf-8)<musicvideo>

<artist>%artist%</artist>

<track>%track%</track>

<title>%title%</title>

<album>%album%</album>

<runtime>%_length%</runtime>

<genre>$regexp($meta_sep(genre,||),\|\|,</genre>\r\n <genre>)</genre>

</musicvideo>

So if I have Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero, it will export the song so that it is ready for Zen and also Kodi.

It does multiple genres so using Bonnie Tyler, my export file will produce

Rock\\Pop\\Hard Rock\\Pop Rock\\Soft Rock\\Arena Rock\\Glam Rock\\Country Pop\\1970's Rock\\1970's Pop\\1970's Country Pop\\1970's Soft Rock\\1980's Rock\\1980's Pop\\1980's Pop Rock\\1980's Power Ballad\\1980's Hard Rock\\1980's Arena Rock\\1990's Rock\\1990's Pop Rock\\1990's Soft Rock\\2000's Rock\\2000's Pop Rock\\2010's Rock\\2010's Pop Rock\\2020's Rock\\2020's Pop Rock

I use AI to get the genres that an artist is known for, simply because for a lot of artists I have never heard of them.

Am I going over board with genres? Hell yeah baby lol

Regards

Mark

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