- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: July 05, 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 968 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/jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV 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 devices such as the iPod.
Version 2.4.1.874 adds basic streaming support along with several fixes related to iPod synchronization.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.1.874
"Works well, good with library"
Pros: The program doesn't balk when adding lots of new music. It sorts it by name, artist etc. and does it well. Really a very functional program even in the free version
Cons: If you have any problems with vision and need larger text this is not the softwate for you. There are no options to change fonts or sizes and the skins don't help much except to change the color for slightly better contrast. NOT for the visually challenged. The font is too small for me and I have a 19 inch monitor. They really need to work on this part.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.1.874
"Easy, straightforward and works"
Pros: I love Media Monkey, and can't wait to purchase the full version. It was simple, straight forward and not as complicated as I found other interfaces to be.
Burning a CD or moving songs to my mp3 player was a cinch and I have been recommending it to my friends.
By the way I used Media Monkey for my wedding, hooked up my laptop to a hifi wire card then a stereo with a 100 watt speaker. I made my play lists and saved $300.00 by not getting a DJ with the chicken dance blaring - Sanity revealed if you ask me :) I'd give it a 6 if i could - just for no chicken dance alone its worth it.
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Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.1.874
"The ultimate Music Management / Player."
Pros: With an extensive tree view system to browse through your mp3's, id3 look-up with amazon and streaming radio (includes pre-set popular sites) and many other useful features I couldn't ask for a more feature packed program for my music.
Cons: It's name. Such an excelent program needs a more "serious" name. It's initial Blue style skin (You can change it to not use a skin, which it then uses a basic Windows XP look).
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