- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: July 25, 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 1050 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 2.4.2.874 adds basic streaming support along with several fixes related to iPod synchronization.
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User reviews of MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1050 votes
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12 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
Pros: Lovely design and interface. Easy to import your music into the list. Great music player built in or option to use your preferred software. Loads of management and categorization options to arrange yourself different playlists and so on. Not a memory hogger considering it's size and functions. Great tagging system and quick access to databases for tags and artwork. And it is actually freeware which does not bug you to upgrade to the pro version at every opportunity.
Cons: I personally do not find any problems or flaws with Media Monkey. I just don't currently use it as I'm not in need of organizing or managing my music - when I am, I 100% would choose nothing but Media Monkey.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
"Very flexible with a ton of features"
Pros: This is one of the easiest-to-use taggers and cover art downloaders I've used. It just also happens to have third-party plugins, play multiple music formats, convert between music formats, organize music, rip music, support iPod syncing, etc. This is one great piece of software and it also has an excellent user support forum at their main website.
Cons: None for me.
There are a bunch of wishlist items listed on their support forum, but I don't see any of them as being all that important. Great to see what they have planned for the future though.
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
"works better as a media manager than a player"
Pros: very good media manager, the idea of stacking up your files in so many ways totally appeals to a neat freak like me. the media lib, player and the playlist are all included in one window - definite plus over real or winamp. the search feature is awesome! lots of features, so many that you probably won't end up using most of them. in fact after a bit they rather crowd you. playback quality is good, nothing to rave about, an improvement on winamp though. no spyware and its free...and oh yeah, the monkey's cute!
Cons: total resource hog. takes forever to open. run it with another RAM guzzler like limewire and old PCs like mine [128mb RAM] crash stat. the interface becomes too crowded if you haven't adjusted the compartment sizes. very few equalizer pre-sets. and although they call it mediamonkey it plays only audio. bottomline - try this out but stick to quintessential for audio and VLC for video.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
Pros: the most feature-laden free media player ever; many options for organising or ripping music; supports many file types; can change priority of background tasks;
Cons: slow loading; can't change nodes in explorer tree; settings saved in My Music folder (can't change location);
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.4.2.874
Pros: I never though I'll live to see the day when something like Media Monkey crops up. IT DID! I lost thousands of music files in a virus or a worm sweep. Media Monkey pulled out back up copies of all and even pulled out many from various places in the world of which I had never heard of. I purchased a lifetime license for peanuts. 5 Stars
Cons: No Cons!
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