MediaMonkey is a free audio player with the ability to manage your music collection. MediaMonkey is a free audio player with the ability to manage your music collection. Send the file to the orderly ranks of our audio library
Music can be approached in different ways. You can love it, hate it, ignore it, be inspired by it, or tune yourself in the right way; you can enhance feelings, emotions, impressions; You can be angry, hate, or, on the contrary, be in complete harmony with yourself and the world around you. One way or another, almost any aspect of life can be influenced by music.
I love music and can hardly imagine myself without it (as I hope you can too). Now such specialized devices as music players- they remained purely niche solutions, mainly intended either for sports, or for shaking money out of the wallets of the so-called “audiophiles,” most of whom are wealthy and wealthy citizens.
Who took them out of the market? That's right, our beloved mobile phone. Today I would like to tell you about the next four programs, this time, as you might guess, for listening to audio files.
As I already said, there are mastodons in almost any type of program, and this direction is no exception - you have probably heard about Poweramp, WinAMP, JetAudio, Neutron MP, doubleTwist, MixZing and PlayerPro. If for some reason none of these solutions suits you (design, ease of use, some other criteria), then perhaps this article will be of great use to you.
Looking ahead, I’ll say that I didn’t find any difference in sound quality in them (and the developers don’t seem to promise anything like that). I will also note that below will be programs that stand out from the general background of the bulk, but you should not look for super-sophisticated media combines in them with a million and one presets for the equalizer and three hundred more settings, functions and other things (by the way, not in any none of them have gapless playback, this factor should be taken into account). And yes, you shouldn’t pay attention to the English interface in the program - for me it’s a system interface, that’s all.
So, let's go.
The first program will be the MediaMonkey player, well-known to desktop PC users, which relatively recently appeared on Android, and just a month or two ago set foot in the store. Google Play. On this moment The application is in open beta testing, so various bugs and annoying errors may occur, but I did not notice any such problems.
The program interface is minimalist in the truest sense of the word - there are practically no graphic elements, only a black background, holo-like section icons and thin dividing lines.
The main screen contains the main navigation window. Here you can choose a method for sorting music (by artists, albums, composers, genres, playlists; displaying all tracks available on the device is supported). Separate items include “audiobooks”, “podcasts” (download from external sources impossible, local data only), "video", streaming via UPnP and "sync now" (media libraries with the desktop version) - the first difference from the rest of the programs in today's release. Although I promised at the beginning not to offer “combines”, I did not keep my word. However, we’ll leave the ability to work with video for some other time.
Having selected an album, you will be presented with a list of tracks in it, a cover image and information such as the total duration of the “record” and the number of tracks in it. The top bar has a “shuffle all” button, “search” and a menu.
The main playback window consists of a large album cover, three navigation keys and a progress bar (tap navigation is naturally supported). Clicking on the cover will bring up two pop-up bars at the top and bottom (“rating”, “shuffle all” and “repeat one/all tracks”). A gesture from right to left will bring up a translucent window with the lyrics of the song, if they are included in tags (the latter, by the way, can be changed directly from the program).
The oldest player in today's selection, which was born last year, managed to undergo some graphical changes in the interface, became faster, more stable and, to be honest, even more pleasing to the eye (although for particularly demanding users there is also standard way navigation).
When you first launch the program, it will guide you through a more than complete and understandable tutorial, clearly showing how to work with this program, and at the end it will offer you to download album covers - all or only the missing ones. I would like to note that this player does better than others, including the “grands” - this is understandable, because the entire program is based on them.
Its main feature is the interface, built on the arrangement of album covers into a beautiful collage. At first glance, this solution may seem impractical, but in reality everything is very convenient and, in my opinion, superior to the standard alphabetical “column” sorting. The collage can be scaled by “pinch” back and forth, and at a great distance all the images are hidden (it still becomes impossible to see them properly), and their places are taken by names.
There is no point in listing all the options, otherwise they are quite ordinary - a simple five-band equalizer with several presets and the ability to set values manually, a couple of sound filters and several effects. By going to the settings (which, by the way, are quite extensive), you can configure scrobbling in Last.fm, select appearance lock screen widget, limit scanning folders to only individually selected ones and set best quality album images for the sake of productivity.
The main playback window offers a slightly larger number of available control buttons. When you long press on the album cover, a dialog menu will appear with big amount options (for example, managing a playlist or combining albums by name).
MediaMonkey- an advanced music organizer that allows you to organize any music collection on your hard drive, audio CDs or local network. The program automatically finds and deletes incomplete, incorrect or duplicate files, supports most types of conversion, and burns music from a CD in various formats.
MediaMonkey will be useful to anyone who loves listening to music, but is tired of creating playlists, manually searching for the right song, and distributing audio files into the right folders.
The music organizer has a built-in player with incredible user-friendly interface and support for all modules. If the user wants to download MediaMonkey and subsequently burn their favorite songs to disk, this can be done directly from the program thanks to its integration with Nero.
MediaMonkey features:
- Editing music tags is carried out manually and automatically. To do this, the program uses data from the freedb.org database.
- Filling in missing covers for music albums. Once the scan is complete, MediaMonkey automatically downloads the artwork, improving your visual search for the music you're looking for.
- Wide selection of skins, various scripts and plugins that make working with MediaMonkey even more understandable and convenient.
- Support for managing more than 50,000 audio files of various formats, the ability to organize them by genre: rock, audiobooks, podcasts, comedies, classical music, etc.
- Plays most popular audio formats.
- Maintaining reports and statistics.
- Synchronization of mp3 players, iPod and iPhone.
- Availability of a built-in audio player with a good equalizer and DSP effects.
- Sleep timer. After playing songs, the program may turn off at the appointed time. A very convenient feature for those users who like to fall asleep to music!
- All users can participate in the development of the program by independently creating plugins for it or sending appropriate requests and suggestions to the developers.
updated 07/17/2009 at 11:10
Hello, dear Habrapeople.
This article was in the sandbox, gave me an invite. I decided to post it on the blog.
I have seen the need to organize my collection of music files for a long time.
A lot of unwritten tags, heaps of unsorted music - all this was depressing. Yes, besides, I recently purchased an iPhone. And his beautiful coverflow without this very cover (which also happens to be album art) is an ugly and obscene horror. If on Nokia I somehow got along with this - I went to “all songs” and looked for the one I needed by searching, then on the Iphone Jobs himself ordered to put things in order.
So. What do I need (for order and beauty):
1. Basic tags are written, such as:
- Song title (including all sorts of “feat.”, “vs”, “NNN cover” and others)
- Performer (in such a way that statistics are not violated and selection by artist works)
- Track number (in 0x format, not only for my aesthetic reasons, see below)
- Collections and sound tracks are processed correctly (that is, each track has the artist of the song itself, the title of the song, but the entire album - the collection - must be searched through the albums as a single whole)
- Album cover (same cover, album art)
2. So that in the tags the name of the artist, the name of the song and the album is correct (Unicode, as well as - so that it is as it should be - taking into account the case, umlauts and other tricks of the names).
3. The name of the files is not critical, but the track numbers in it should be in 0x format (so that names like “1 Track 1.mp3” and “10 Track 11.mp3” do not stand next to each other, and all tracks are in order - as in an album - 01 Intro.mp3, 02 Beginning.mp3, etc.). I also love the media library sorted by artist, album (by year of release):
..\
Executor\
2009 Album\
01 Intro.mp3
02 Beginning.mp3
…
19 Outro.mp3
That is, in order to look at its order and harmony, it was possible not only through the player program (or cataloguer), the device itself (iPhone, Nokia, or some other Sony Ericsson), but also through a regular file manager everything would be beautiful and orderly. And let the disordered and unknown remain in the “unknown” folders...
In my opinion, it is quite logical.
So. What do I want from a program that will help me get organized?
1. Write all the tags for the album at once.
2. Rename all files in a structured manner.
3. Upload cover (album art) - write them in the tag and (if possible - put folder.jpg in the folder).
4. Ability to download tags automatically (from freedb.org, cddb, musicbrainz.org, last.fm, discogs, tracktype.org, amazon.com and others).
5. For all points, an important note: I love music, including domestic music, as well as not too well-known ones...
Let's get started.
We will start with the closest one (due to the preset):
Windows Media Player (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ru/)
The main Library window allows you to sort your music files by artist, album, or genre.All three modes support cover. It's cute if you have covers loaded.
WMP searches for information on the Internet using the Microsoft database. He finds famous performers, but even they have a hard time with covers... If there is no cover, a gray note flaunts instead.
There is, however, the option to assign a cover manually - paste it from the clipboard. I couldn’t find how to remove the existing cover (a screenshot was inserted instead of the cover by mistake), so I had to replace it.
It only supports numbering in tags: 1, 2, 3, etc., but sorts normally.
There is a search function - it’s convenient to search for an artist in collections, for example. True, the search is case sensitive. NAIV and Naiv are different groups for him.
The tag editor is very simple - I edit what I see. One at a time. Only the album name, year, author, genre are edited in bulk.
WMP can rename, this is set in the “copy from CD” menu, but it works for everything. possible in automatic mode. not a very wide range of settings.
Star system – supported.
For some reason, some part of my media library was showing questions. The true meaning of the file could only be guessed by listening to it (or reading the file name in the properties, if possible)…
There are also additional functions - recording discs, ripping, watching videos and DVDs, as well as online radio. Everything is included in the basic configuration. Free.
Editing tags 3/5 It will do for editing. Filling it out is a chore.
Renaming files 4/5 Renames.
Working with covers 4/5 You can put your own, download from the Microsoft database.
Work speed 4/5 Works quickly, loads the database in the background.
Synchronization 4/5 Supports removable devices. iPhone is not supported.
Final score 3.66/5
Summary: if everything is fine with your media library, and you don’t have an iPhone, then you can safely use Windows Media Player. Beautiful, convenient, and most importantly - out of the box and free!
iTunes 8.2 (http://www.apple.com/ru/itunes/download/)
Along with my iPhone, I received the iTunes program (tuna). With its help, you can not only listen to music, watch videos, but also synchronize your iPhone, make purchases in the iTunes store, buy programs, and backup data.
The main window represents both the player and the media library. There are three modes: list, icons, as well as CowerFlow (yes, that one).
In icon mode you can sort by album, artist, genre, composer.
There is a convenient search. Case insensitive.
The tag editor is quite good. Supports a huge number of fields. It understands the word “collection”, downloads covers from the Internet (unfortunately, it has its own database, and besides, it’s impossible to find Russian performers there), and you can also download it yourself (from the clipboard or from a file).
A massive tag editor is present. There is import of names from the Internet, but, again, for Russians and less popular performers, it will not be of much help.
Among other things, there are iTunes DJ and Genius functions. To create your own playlists.
The star system is fully supported.
I didn’t find how to update the library in iTunes (except how to collect everything in the “iTunes directory”) (if, for example, files were moved or renamed)… Therefore, it’s not very convenient.
Loading tags from the network 3/5 Supports only its own databases
Renaming files 3/5 Not very broad options
Working with covers 4.5/5 You can put your own, download from the iTunes database.
Speed of operation 3.5/5 Doesn't work very fast, loads the database in the background. It eats up a lot of memory.
Synchronization 3.5/5 Supports iPhone only. But - in full.
Final score 3.66/5
Summary: if you have an iPhone, you already use iTunes. The function of renaming files and correct behavior with single files is missing. As a player it is good, but bulky.
Free.
MediaMonkey 3.1 (http://www.mediamonkey.com/)
I remembered MediaMonkey by accident. I remember it back in versions 1.x. I didn't like it then. What now?MediaMonkey looks good. Beautiful, comfortable.
The library is built according to any characteristic of the file. Even including the location!
The tag editor is great. Mass and single editing is supported. You can make collections. It searches for covers on the Internet, as well as in tags of neighboring files and on disk.
He can get information about the track on the Internet at Amazon.com, but he doesn’t know Russians.
Searching through the media library is very, very convenient. Searches everywhere and everything.
Star system supported.
With the correct firmware, media decoys perfectly synchronize the iPhone. With firmware 3.0 – read only from iPhone. USB players are supported by default.
It renames files very well, however, it numbers tracks only in the format 1, 2, 3. Because of this, the files in the directory are in the order 1,10,11,12... etc. - not very convenient. Update: Habrapeople suggested that you can change the template and everything will be cool. THANK YOU!
In addition, MediaMonkey supports WMP, iTunes (import) media libraries. Full version The program (paid) supports folder monitoring.
The free version copes well with all the assigned tasks if the media library does not change often.
The paid version can monitor, convert audio, rip and burn discs.
Editing tags 4.5/5 It is convenient to change tags for albums and individual tracks. Compile collections.
Loading tags from the network 3.5/5 Supports only amazon.com databases
Renaming files 4/5 Renames well, including collections, but numbers files in the form 1,2,3.
Working with covers 4.5/5 You can put your own, download from the amazon.com database.
Work speed 4.5/5 Works quickly, loads the database in the background. Even with monitoring it does not load the system.
Synchronization 4.5/5 Supports iPhone, as well as portable devices connected via USB.
Final score 4.25/5
Summary: An excellent program with many functions. Personally, I was only upset by the numbering of the files, and Amazon.com, which practically does not know Russian.
Songbird 1.2.0 (http://www.getsongbird.com/)
I think everyone knows what Firefox is, and as a result, the Gecko engine. It is on this that Songbird is built - a combine of a player, media library and browser.Many plugins and add-ons for this program do their job - they add convenience, and then add errors.
While writing the article, my songbird came up with a step: half of the artists took part in the tribute to naive, even foreign ones. The tags came from nowhere, and Limp Bizkit had Jane Air covers...
You can edit tags in bulk, individually. Everything is done in a special window. It downloads covers from the Internet (and for Russians too - I found Psyche), and also allows you to upload your own.
Star system supported. When playing a track, it searches for information about it on last.fm, as well as from musicbrainz.
The search works strangely - ##### did not search. Apparently something with the code and control characters generally works properly.
Supports account on last.fm, synchronization with iPhone (although it only showed me free place) and USB devices.
Songbird was unable to rename files. An addon may be needed. Don't know.
In general, if it weren’t for today’s glitch, everything would be great. For free.
Loading tags from the network 3.5/5 I still don’t understand where it’s loading from. For some it’s good, some (even foreigners) don’t see it point blank.
Renaming files 0/5 Can't (maybe need an addon)
Working with covers 4.5/5 You can put your own, load from the database (I don’t know where)
Speed of operation 3.5/5 Works quickly, I weighed the system a couple of times when updating the media library.
Final score 3.25/5
Summary: good potential. If everything continues in the same spirit, it will be the best. In the meantime, it's glitching.
Winamp 5.56 (http://www.winamp.com/)
Who doesn't know Winamp? Everyone knows him! Even those who are avid users of Linux and Mac. Only today's youth don't know him. Their imagination does not paint pictures of the “most convenient player”; they do not remember the evolution of this player to such a combine.
What do we have now? Indeed, it’s a combine that resembles a good old player.
We added video playback, added a disk ripper, a disk writer...
Added a media library. Quite good (and many people rip it off from Winamp).
Among other things, we have a good pack of skins, support for tags, and a star system.
In terms of the media library, Winamp is great. In my memory, to be honest, he was the first.
The search works well, it looks for what it needs. Fast.
There is library monitoring.
There is a tag editor - simple, but at the same time convenient. Batch changing of tags is supported.
Autofill works. It also worked for domestic performers, but it was filled in on transliteration. Fortunately, there is a “cancel” button.
Covers can be downloaded from the Internet, from a file. The database is not extensive. When playing a file, it tries to find information about the artist and display it.
There are plugins for portable players (including iPhones), but they refused to work with my iPhone. I just didn't see him.
Editing tags 4/5 It is convenient to change tags for albums and individual tracks.
Loading tags from the network 3.5/5 Autocomplete is not very good. Russians - transliterated.
Renaming files 0/5 Can't (may need a plugin)
Working with covers 4/5 You can put your own, load from the database (the database is not very good)
Speed of operation 3.5/5 Despite its monstrous nature, it works quickly. Depends on the skins. The media library does not load very quickly
Synchronization 4/5 Supports iPhone, as well as portable devices connected via USB.
Final score 3.16/5
Summary: from a cute little player it has become a monster with intrusive windows (although they turn off in the classic form - it’s the same cute little player).
AIMP 2.51.330 (http://www.aimp.ru/)
A young, fast-growing project - that’s what they would write about it in reviews.I agree. Young, but already firmly on his feet and with an army of fans.
I found out about it by chance from an employee.
I decided to take a look. When you first start it, your first thought is – oh! Winamp with a new cover!
There are plugins for working with last.fm, a plugin for the media library, as well as a separate tag editor and file converter.
There is a separate tag editor. The editor took a long time to load my media library.
There is a massive tag editor. Covers can be loaded from a file. It doesn't search for anything from the network. I don’t understand how to make a collection.
In media library mode, the player comes into a more convenient mode - you can select an artist or album. View information.
There is a system of stars.
Sometimes the player froze.
File renaming is available in the tag editor (a separate component). I found there auto-completion of tags from the file name.
Editing tags 4/5 It is convenient to change tags for albums and individual tracks. Basic tags are supported.
Loading tags from the network 0/5 No such function (standard)
Renaming files 4.5/5 Renames files, and also fills tags from file names. Group operations.
Working with covers 3/5 You can put your own from files.
Work speed 3.5/5 Sometimes it froze, but overall it was a fast comrade
Synchronization 0/5 No such function (standard)
Final score 2.5/5
Summary: young project. Adding the ability to download data from the Internet and synchronize with devices will be a great tool.
Foobar2000 v0.9.6.7 (www.foobar2000.org)
At the request of many of the Habrovites, I’m adding a review of the Foobar2000 playerThe player itself is a very ascetic creation. But this is only a plus for him. Nothing extra.
If not everything, then a lot is customizable.
Memory consumption is incomparably less than previous programs.
IN this review I'm exploring fubar without additionally downloaded plugins - everything in the basic version from the official website.
My window looks like this:
You can customize it to your liking without any problems. There is also a view by catalogue, album, artist and other parameters.
Mass operations are supported: renaming, taking information from tags, editing tags in bulk.
A few more words about editing tags: any tags are supported. Even your own, if you like. There is a download from the freedb database. 
Unfortunately, I didn’t understand how to edit and add covers.
They are displayed.
You can convert audio directly in the player, you can fix a broken stream or the header of an MP3 file, you can do almost everything you want.
Collections are supported. There is no star system (can't find it?).
Editing tags 5/5 Editing tags is very convenient, including mass editing.
Loading tags from the network 3/5 Supports freedb databases only (in the basic package)
Renaming files 5/5 Whatever you want and how you want.
Working with covers 2/5 Shows.
Speed of operation 4.5/5 Works quickly, but takes a little longer to process tags en masse.
Synchronization 0/5 I did not find such a function in the basic version.
Final score 3.75/5
Summary: Small, very nimble, comfortable. Flexible.
NokiaMusic 1.3.20702.00 (http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/nokia-music-old/download)
The latest I added to the review was a utility from Nokia.It downloaded quickly and installed beautifully. I asked where to store what.
Looks beautiful!
It works VERY slowly. Processed my data for 40 minutes (10,000 songs)
Shows with covers.
Supports bulk operations: editing tags, renaming.
Covers are downloaded from the Internet, as well as from a file. Tags can also be downloaded from the Internet, however, apparently, from its own Nokia database.
Syncs with your devices.
Editing tags 4/5 Editing tags is convenient, including mass editing.
Loading tags from the network 3/5 Supports Nokia databases only.
Renaming files 3/5 There is such a function.
Working with covers 4.5/5 Shows, loads, allows you to change.
Operating speed 2.5/5 Works slowly.
Synchronization 2.5/5 Only with Nokia
Final score 3.25/5
Summary: Beautiful. Raw.
Helium Music Manager 2009 (http://www.helium-music-manager.com/)
First impression - handsome!
The second impression is how conveniently the library is organized - alphabetically (within each of the categories - artist, album, song, genre and others!), by disc.
Third impression - supports iPod! True, it didn’t work for me =)
Fourth impression - covers! Very comfortably! loads great!!!
Fifth impression - awesomely convenient tag editor!
Sixth - downloading information from the Internet! Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Discogs!
Seventh - renames files as needed!!!
Eighth - the library works quickly!
Ninth - Search! case insensitive and fast!
Tenth - updates the library (clearing deleted ones!)
Fly in the ointment - paid. I also didn’t really like the playback system - first go to the playlist, then play. But that doesn't matter to me at all =)
Editing tags 4.5/5 It is convenient to change tags for albums and individual tracks. Compile collections.
Loading tags from the network 4.5/5 If you find a plug-in for music brains - there will be an A!!!
Renaming files 4.5/5 Can do anything! half a point for speed
Working with covers 5/5 Anything is possible!
Work speed 3.75/5 Works fine. He's searching fast. It takes a long time to clean the library and load.
Synchronization 4.5/5 Supports iPhone, USB whistles. iPhone didn't work - minus half a point
Final score 4.45/5
Summary: Awesome! Great product! It would be free... but you don't mind the money either!
However: it turned out that it was helium that beat all Russian tags for hieroglyphs... It's a pity. I'm deducting a point for this.
Final score 3.45/5
Ventis Media MediaMonkey Gold 4.1.21 – the program allows you to organize your music collection located on your hard drive, CD and local network, quickly edit tags (manually or automatically using data from the freedb.org database), find incomplete or duplicate files, convert files to other formats, burn music from CD (in OGG, MP3 or WMA formats) or on CD, or upload to an mp3 player. Works with CD and OGG files, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3. MediaMonkey has a built-in player with a user-friendly interface and support for Winamp modules. Can integrate with Nero to burn discs. Main features of the MediaMonkey program:
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| System requirements: | |
| Operating system: | Windows XP,Vista,7,8,10 (x86,x64) |
| CPU: | 1 GHz |
| RAM: | 512 MB |
| Hard disk space: | 55 MB |
| Interface language: | Russian |
| Size: | 14 MB |
| pharmacy: | cured |
| *archive WITHOUT password |
A program for playing audio files of common formats, converting audio tracks, burning Audio CDs and managing your home media library.
What you need to know about MediaMonkey:
is a popular application for listening to audio recordings and streaming broadcasts. The player includes a number additional functions, which will allow you to conveniently organize everything located on local media audio tracks, supplement them with tracks from connected devices (including iPod) and search for songs based on specified criteria. The program has a built-in sound normalizer, duplicate manager and tag editor with the option to automatically fill in metadata for songs. If desired, the player allows you to sort the contents of your media library according to various parameters - artist, genre, year of release, album name.
Supports the ability to expand functionality through plugins, there is an integrated format converter and recording option optical disks Audio CD. The application has an interesting function of independently selecting and playing songs under given conditions. The built-in assistant and localization make it easier for inexperienced users to get acquainted with the functionality.
The free version of Media Monkey contains a number of limitations, the most significant of which are the limit on Audio CD recording speed, the unavailability of some search filters and the lack of automatic synchronization of objects. The cost of the Gold version of the program is $24.95.
Briefly and clearly:
- playing files in MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC and other formats;
- tag editor with function automatic download song information;
- extension support;
- combining all audio objects into a single library;
- integrated converter.
