Phil Central

So if you want the absolutely best Windows software for organizing and syncing your music, this is it! I’ve been a rabid user of MediaMonkey for a long time for organizing my music, but because I had an iPod, I was more or less at the mercy of iTunes for my music library needs. Now that I have a Creative Zen Vision:M I’m able to use MediaMonkey to manage my music and it works fantastic.

As music library software, MediaMonkey is as good as it gets. It’s not flashy, it doesn’t have a store, and it doesn’t show you your albums in 3d to use up all your computer’s resources. It is however, fast, efficient, and feature rich. It can sort your library by any vector imaginable, it will also tell you which tracks are missing art or other tags. When it finds an item that is missing a tag, MediaMonkey has some quick ways to resolve that, you can look it up on Amazon and tag it from there (typically a 3 click process), or simply tag it from the filename. When you get a library of 100gb+ of music, tagging is important, and MediaMonkey makes it easy to keep everything organized.

If you own an MTP compliant device, you really owe it to yourself to at least try MediaMonkey, it’s free version is very rich feature wise, and works great for everything but ripping and converting. It has smart playlists for syncing which are what I use the most. It also syncs over album art and ratings perfectly. It syncs with all devices I’ve tried flawlessly, including the iPod (the only reason I stuck with iTunes was for podcasts and videos).

I didn’t even touch on some of the advanced features for the true collectors of music. It has some treats for Audiophiles that you won’t find in other music management software. In the end, it’s fast, free, and good for your music library, it follows standards and doesn’t massacre your files. If you looking for some new music management software, MediaMonkey is for you!