- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: September 12, 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 1009 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 2.5.4.978 adds improvements and fixes related to synchronization, support for wav tags, and CD/DVD Burning.
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User reviews of MediaMonkey 2.5.4
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1009 votes
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.4
Pros: Stores tag info in an msaccess database so you can read/modify it like any other db in addtion to the scripting. Perfect for backup/restore in the event of tag corruption.
Cons: Does not store cover art. no lyric search/display. rudmientary video (no biggie-not its purpose), just minor faults.
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48 out of 67 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.4
"This Player Is Bad To The Bone!"
Pros: I have been dealing with media for years that Windows Media Player wouldn't allow me to tag with the correct information. It is nice to see the name of the songs instead of "track 1."
Media Monkey has a lot of features that makes it much better than Windows Media Player - so many in fact that it would be hard to speak of them in this review. However, they make the download of Media Monkey worth the time!
I think you will find it easier to deal with your music media with this wonderful player.
The auto-tag feature in Media Monkey is a lot better then the album update feature in Windows Media Player too!
Cons: Few, and you will forget about them once you get used to using the program!
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12 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.4
Pros: I used this program to manage my music and loved it. I used it because iTunes wouldn't work on my old computer. So I downloaded iTunes when I got my new computer and I was really unimpressed. Everyone talked about how wonderful it was but it didn't compare to Media Monkey.
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9 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.4
"Ban Those Guys Who Gave 1 Star Reviews"
Pros: this software is awesome, not only does this sound better than itunes but its got a burner in which u can even have it equalize the sound as well as make it a video player with a certain extension
Cons: the guys who rated this product with 1 star, all have only rated 1 product and it was this 1 so its safe to assume they work for another company. cnet really needs to get rid of guys who's sole attempt is to lower the rating of a product, and ban their ip addresses so they cant make new accounts
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17 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: MediaMonkey 2.5.4
Pros: Lots of features, nice interface
Cons: Doesn't save your last view so i have to reselect the view i want every time
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