I’ve been a huge fan of MediaMonkey ever since it was released, I love the ease of management and the freedom that it gives you (over that of iTunes) is great! I now love the fact that it supports iPhones as well because it so nice being able to put songs onto the iPhone without using iTunes. Now the only thing I really use iTunes for is to download the podcasts that I’m subscribed to, and I’ll occassionally connect my phone to iTunes to remove some songs or to add some new ringtones. Other than that, iTunes is pretty much obsolete on my computer. Until recently.

I just upgraded my PC from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC1, and I’ve installed MediaMonkey 3.0.7.1191 and ever since I’ve upgraded iTunes to version 8.2, I am unable to connect my iPhone while running MediaMonkey. Connecting my iPhone causes MediaMonkey to immediately crash. It just gives me the following error message prior to shutting down:

MediaMonkey – Audio Library has stopped working

As of right now, it looks like I’m stuck using iTunes to manage all of the music on my iPhone until the next version of MediaMonkey comes out, or until iTunes changes… I think it’s going to be left up to the MediaMonkey developers to fix the problem.