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June 12, 2009 4:59 PM PDT

New MediaMonkey doesn't go bananas

by Seth Rosenblatt
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The iTunes alternative music jukebox MediaMonkey's latest version jacks the volume, but only a little bit. It's an upgrade worth downloading simply for the improved performance that comes with support for multicore processing, and there are some other worthwhile feature enhancements as well.

MediaMonkey's more robust search tool.

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)

One long-standing complaint about MediaMonkey has been that its search feature, while adequate, was far from robust. Version 3.1 changes that, and offers a helpful mouse-over tooltip that explains the Boolean-style searching. It's not true Boolean terminology, but typing in queries such as TO* will give you all songs, albums, and artists that start a word with TO.

Audiophiles will also get improvements to multi-attribute tagging, smoother rendering of album art, better podcast catching, and should see fewer hiccups in device synchronization. The full changelog can be read at MediaMonkey's Web site.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by baskinghobo June 12, 2009 10:18 PM PDT
If only there metadata and album art search wasn't restricted to amazonmp3 (not avaliable in Australia) i'd be using it for sure!
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by some123321 June 13, 2009 7:25 AM PDT
Really really good bit of software!
Only thing which handles a large music collection (100GB+)!
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by June 13, 2009 7:59 AM PDT
Sure do wish it would handle transfering video to my IPod. If it did, I would be all over this.
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by judas_s June 13, 2009 12:53 PM PDT
I just LOVE MediaMonkey...I posted a full review yesterday here:
http://download.cnet.com/MediaMonkey-Standard/9241-2141_4-11038424-8.html?tag=mncol
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by linhlh June 13, 2009 1:37 PM PDT
Very good software. But nothing can beat Foobar ;)
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by srosenblatt June 13, 2009 5:08 PM PDT
We're big fans of MediaMonkey here at Download.com.
http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=mediamonkey&searchtype=blogs&blognames=The+Download+Blog
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by bd26 June 13, 2009 8:21 PM PDT
i use media monkey and i love it very much
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by terryinwva June 13, 2009 10:24 PM PDT
media monkey is my choice for playing music, organizing music, the whole shebang! and i've tried them all.
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by Brent212 June 15, 2009 1:06 PM PDT
I prefer Winamp.
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by natashashawsh June 15, 2009 3:24 PM PDT
very cool
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by kasrhp1 June 16, 2009 4:42 AM PDT
MM does work with your ipod. When you conect your device, you choose which mode to sync your player with. It has the ipod mode, choose that.

Foobar is great....but it does not sync your music. Thats a big downside with that player. I would def use it if it had that built in.

MM also has plug ins that enhance the music experience too. I like Jammix enhancer. It is like a EQ option with a ton of different choices.
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by kazaa56 June 16, 2009 10:36 AM PDT
Great Software but Still WInamp is the perfect media player has the media collection features with better add-ons, slicker interface &better musical input/output effects...it's the Firefox of media players.
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by jpap93 June 17, 2009 3:50 AM PDT
I love the monkey! Much better than WMP.
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