- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 26, 2005
- Total Downloads: 2,987,560
- Downloads last week: 6,977
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 982 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Despite a glut of free player/encoders, it's tough to find one that meets our expectations. Formerly known as Sound DB, MediaMonkey has excellent library-management tools that keep the largest digital music collections well-organized. Stir that up with tight Winamp and Nero CD-burning integration, a stellar interface, a full-featured encoder, and the ability to sync with portable audio devices such as the iPod, and you have a pretty compelling product.
Upon first launch, the program prompts you to scan your drive for any supported digital media files to add them to the library. Files are sorted based on the ID3 tag, and helpful Auto-Rename and Auto-Tag From Filename features keep untagged tracks from falling through the cracks. Third-party plug-ins are available from the site if you want to tinker with the playback and encoding engine or add additional sound-processing effects. The interface is well-designed, with clean, colorful icons throughout.
Considering the overall polish of this application, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything you don't like. Although it's definitely geared toward managing extensive collections, just about anyone will appreciate the comprehensive feature set. For $20, MediaMonkey Gold adds advanced features such as sleep, scripting, and previewing.
Publisher's description
From Ventis Media :MediaMonkey is a music manager and media jukebox for serious music collectors. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, and MP3 audio files. It looks up missing album, art, and track information via Freedb and the Web, and includes an intelligent tag editor and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated play list editors for creating music mixes. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don't have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player.
It also includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to synch tracks and play lists with portable audio devices. Version 2.3.1.845 includes Flac playback and tagging support, WAV tagging, and added wheel scrolling on mouse over on main panel.
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User reviews of MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 982 votes
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6 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
Pros: Gorgeous, intuitive interface. Excellent sound quality. Very customizable, even in the Free Version. It eats up few memory, unlike WMP 10; my old favorite. You can burn faster in MM Gold, and rip faster too. I am very satisfied with MediaMonkey, that's why I purchased MediaMonkey Gold! More power, better! Get MediaMonkey/Gold NOW!
Cons: It doesn't have a toolbar option like iTunes or WMP 10. The rest, it's perfect!
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
"Excellent! I Can't Believe It's Free!"
Pros: WOW, it really IS possible to get something for nothing! Here's a no-cost, fully functional, spyware-free program that rivals similar applications costing as much as $50! This well designed software offers a great looking, highy intuitive GUI and runs like greased lightning on Windows XP! I'm especially impressed with MediaMonkey's ability to tag and/or auto-tag a huge variety of compressed formats including MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, MPC as well as uncompressed WAV files! The built-in player produces decent quality audio and includes a 10-band EQ plus the ability to utilize dozens of worthwhile plugins, many of which are free. Alternatively, there's an option to launch files directly through WinAmp5, which to my ear produced noticeably superior audio versus the built-in. Unlike many media organizers, the free version of MediaMonkey includes darn near everything most users would ever need. For $20, the "Gold" upgrade adds a number of extras for those wanting a more customizable feature set and integrated CD burning.
Cons: External player capability limited to WinAmp. In future versions, the option to auto-launch other popular apps such as JetAudio, WMP, RealPlayer, etc., would be appreciated.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
"Great, i dumped WMP and RealPlayer for this"
Pros: It's great, it looks great and it has great organizational tools for managing you collection. sounds great and uses very little system recources. Sync to MP3 player. Easy to use. Wonderful interface. FREE.
Cons: Equalizer presets arent as good as WMP's. No visualizations. no toolbar mode.
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Version: MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
Pros: Great program, MediaMonkey's free program, i would buy if for a reasonable prize, its got a great interface, and quality set-up.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.3.1.845
Pros: This program has all you need to manage your songs..
Cons: None/Can't think of any.
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