- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 05, 2006
- 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 integrated CD and DVD burning, 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 scans your drive for supported digital media files to add to the library. Files are sorted based on their ID3 tags, and the helpful Auto-Rename and Auto-Tag From Filename features keep untagged tracks from falling through the cracks. Party mode locks down your library while still allowing people to request songs. Auto DJ plays selections from your library even when there are no requests in the queue. 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, previewing, and on-the-fly file conversion when syncing with a portable device.
Publisher's description
From Ventis Media :MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist 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 quickly synch tracks and playlists with iPods and other portable audio devices.
Version 2.5.3.968 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 982 votes
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22 out of 30 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
Pros: Nice looking interface.Much easier to use than WMP10.Its got everything you want.Ripper/burner,tagger, the list goes on.Nice download (So Far).I am totaly hacked off with WMP.The new Movie codecs dont work.So as I downloaded MonkeyMedia today, and VideoLan yesterday.I am about to get rid of WMP10 after I write this (I have a Blaze stand alone DVD player) .Microsoft had better get their act together, as more are leaving the outdated Advertising hog microsoft WMP behind!
Cons: I like eveything so far!
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11 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
"best free music manager player"
Pros: been using this for a while and by far it is best free manager player on market lets you burn cd's auto tas songs simple yet powerful interfacea must try
Cons: none
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20 out of 31 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
Pros: very easy to use interface
a little bit like itunes but with support for wma and ogg files too
i liked the system tray feature; it hides the program in the tray and the name of the song appears as a balloon tip
very stable player too
excellent for managing large amounts of music
Cons: doesnt play video clips or dvds
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Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
Pros: This program has some very nice features. One which is especially usefull for me is the party function as I put my comp downstairs for all to chose music on. There are some other nice little features not found on other players.
Cons: The program feels a bit cheap, and not as nice and profressional as Itunes, I find it usefull at parties, but apart from that I'm going to stick to itunes.
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.3.968
"Best all around music manger"
Pros: Great set of features, I recommend the gold version that virtually does everything for you.. watches for changes in your folders and reflects them inmediately. Imports Itunes and Winamp mlu and it's stable and cute... sych to every mp3 player available.
Cons: Music, focus un music and music alone. I would send WM10 and Itunes to hell if I could synch my video as well. I wish some features would be built in, like IM display, with no need of plugins (uses Winamp plugins and work perfectly). Anyway, the best =)
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