Hi, you can do most of this in Jaikoz.
Start Jaikoz
Go to Preferences/Table/Columns and Select All
Go to Preferences/Table/ID3 Columns and Select All
Go to Preferences/Save/Compatability/
Set Upload and Save ratings to Media Monkey
Select Save
This will show you all the columns available in Jaikoz, which might be a bit daunting but is probably easier then adding one column at a time, they are mapped from Media Monkey as follows:
MediaMonkey Jaikoz
Comments Comments
Original Date Original Release Year
Rating Rating
Unfortunately MediaMonkey does not put Playcount and Last Played into the file but keeps them within its internal database ,maybe a script is available within Media Monkey for these.
Now if you enable Preferences/Save/iTunesUpdate/Automtically Update Itunes library saving files in Jaikoz will add/update them to itunes but there are some incompatibilities between Media Monkey and iTunes so yo have to do more work in Jaikoz.
Comments
Enable View/Show ID3 tabs
Click on the ID3 Edit tab
Click on the little number in the Comment field for a song with a comment, you’ll see that Language is set to Media Monkey Format, this is an invalid format that is not understand by iTunes so this comment would be ignored by iTunes. If you change this to English then the comment will be recognised in iTunes but clearly changing this one by one is not very practical.
We dont currently have a ‘Convert Media Monkey Comment to Standard Comment’ function but there is a fairly painless workaround.
Go back to Edit tab
Drag a column you are currently not using to the right of the comment tab (i.e Custom 1)
Select all fields in the Comment and Custom 1 columns
Select Edit/Append to Right (for each row it will copy the value in comment to custom1)
Right click Comment Header and select ‘Empty Column’
Select both Columns again
Select Edit/Append to Left (for each row it will copy the value in custom to comment and will default language to English)
Right click Custom1 Header and select ‘Empty Column’
File/Force Changes to update iTunes wth this
Ratings
Media Monkey store ratings in the file, iTunes can read them from the file but thern it uses its own internal database from then on. The trouble is the internal scale used by Media Monkey is different to that used by iTunes, i.e. the value used to represent 5 stars in MM is different to that of Jaikoz.
You can get round it like this in Jaikoz, load the songs, Jaikoz will decode the rating as Media Monkey Format. Then change Preferences/Save/Compatability/Set Upload and Save ratings to iTunes this will then convert the rating to iTunes format on save.
Year
Assuming you mean Release Date Im not sure what that maps to I’ll have to delve further.
So in summary Jaikoz doesn’t provide a simple Convert MM - iTunes function (yet) but could go some way to helping you, and has a host of other stuff in it that you probably havent considered.