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Free Music Player, Organizer, Tagger and More
Adding to a crowded audio player market, MusicBee stands out on its own merits. It's a music player, organizer cum tag editor, rich in features, with a plain, simple yet highly configurable user interface, allowing album arts and lyrics to be displayed alongside the music files played or selected.
With this program, you can automatically add music to your library from monitored folders, create dynamic playlists, auto tag by albums or tracks, look up album arts, lyrics and other tag info from the web, and save tags or embed frames into the music files in your collection. The tedious tagging work is made so much easier and more intuitive now.
What's more? you can rip tracks from CDs, sync files with IPod and other devices, discover music from the web, normalize the playback volume of songs or even convert formats from one to another. Download and give it a whirl, free for personal use.
Homepage: http://www.getmusicbee.com/
Download: http://www.getmusicbee.com/download/
File Size: 16.6 MB
Platform: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
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I used Musicbee to copy to and from my ipod and for organising my music.
I really like it. It's feature rich (if you delve, it's not always the most intuitive of apps)
It's updated regularly - there is nearly a weekly release in the beta cycle.
It's developed by one guy in his spare time, who responds very well to user questions, bugs and feature requests.
It's not perfect (is any music manager/player?) but it is good, and getting better every week.
Try it, you might like it, you might not - I do!
Had high hopes for this one, but it fell flat. Unlike some other software I've used, MusicBee didn't recognize quite a few of the artists in my collection, and it got several album covers wrong. That was enough for me.
GOSH!
What a hide these free program writers have - not producing free commercial quality perfect programs that can read our minds for required features and cater to them immediately.
Hot diggity...why wouldn't you summarily dismiss their efforts and go pay money for one.
The "other software I've used" referred to freeware, which is 99% of what I use. And I will, until they get it right, dismiss any program that can't, as of yet, get the very basics correct. If at some point they do get the basics down, I will reconsider using McBee. By the way, I'm not looking for perfection. If that were the case, no software, no matter how good (free or $), could be used. But I don't want to hear one artist singing, while it displays the image of someone else. Nor do I want to use software that cannot even recognize the names of the songs, just the genre. But hey, if it's working for you, great! Enjoy it!
"I don't want to hear one artist singing, while it displays the image of someone else."
At the Track Information panel, it has two choices: Playing Track and Selected Track. If you select Playing Track, it will auto display the album art for that track being played.
"Nor do I want to use software that cannot even recognize the names of the songs, just the genre."
MusicBee searches tag info by digital sound signature of an album or a track. Alternatively you might want to try an online service AudioTag.info listed here or the mp3 tag editors reviewed here might be helpful too.
"At the Track Information panel, it has two choices: Playing Track and Selected Track. If you select Playing Track, it will auto display the album art for that track being played."
I reinstalled McBee in the hopes that your info would work. It only did maybe half the time. It was not consistent.
"MusicBee searches tag info by digital sound signature of an album or a track. Alternatively you might want to try an online service AudioTag.info listed here or the mp3 tag editors reviewed here might be helpful too."
Without getting past the first hurdle I"m not going to waste my time with the second. That's just way too much work. But hey, like I said, I'm glad it's working for some of you out there.
Maybe you should try the latest v1.2 beta. That's what I use and it is very stable. There is a whole lot of fixes and additions since the "stable" build...
Hi, hope someone here can advise. I'm looking for a cd burning app that can normalize volume levels?
Thanks.
CJ
Cowan Media Center - Jet Audio can do what you want. I use it all the time. It can also play DVDs and it's free.
JohnW
Thank you, JohnW. That was quick. Gizmo, your site rules.
Hey, thank you. Just yesterday I was looking for something new.
Thank you very much, Jojoyee :)
Media monkey is very better than this and can do more things
MediaMonkey has a Free version and a commercial Gold version. The free version comes with some restrictions, such as no automatic update of library from monitored folders, etc. Besides, I find the tagging features in MusicBee are better in certain areas, such as lyrics lookup, when compared between the two.
MusicBee looks promising (like MusikCube was once - wait, it looks exactly the same?), but would disagree about tagging. Obviously tagging is heavy user dependant.
One thing that make Mediamonkey special: find one tune (missing tag or anything) and then find similar (all in folder, with same artist ... )
Didn't come across this functionality anywhere else.
It's a shame, that MM is so resource hungry (takes forever to start).
MusikCube and MusicBee look exactly the same? No, not at all.
OK, MusicBee has some extras (and is a great app), but the basic look and feel are very familiar to me (which is not so bad at all).
Looks like a very useful little application...
Thanks for the heads up :)
Thanks - Looks rather like a more recent Foobar with the Columns user interface. But much simpler to set up... a big advantage that!
If you don't have time to tweak foobar, you can go to deviantart and download many foobar skin. Most of them are very easy to install and look beautiful
Yes, it can be very complicated to modify, but I would recommend anyone with spare time who wanted a modifiable interface/design to try Foobar.
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