MediaMonkey Gold – Review and License key Giveaway

Ashwin
By Ashwin
Software

MediaMonkey is more than just a music player, it is a Media manager, Audio/video file converter, Audio CD ripper, Syncing software and much more.

MediaMonkey supports all popular audio formats and some video formats. However you need to buy a codec pack for playing popular video formats. It can also rip Audio CD’s and convert them to any audio format you like. Right-clicking on an audio file in the library can give you a ton of options, adding file to a playlist, tagging, search for more (from the same artist/album),etc.

Let’s take a look at the important features:

Music Library:
You can manage your music library by selecting the folders you wish to monitor. If MediaMonkey detects a new file in the selected folder, it will automatically be added to the music library.

As you can see from the screenshot, you can access your library by clicking on the Artist’s name, Album, Genre, etc. Its really a great way to organize your files and provides quick access to the songs. Of course, you can just create a playlist if you don’t have too many songs in your library.

Tagging:

The Auto-tag feature uses the databases from freedb, allmymusic for tagging your songs. Tagging is an important feature for me as it helps me to play my music files according to Genre or Artist. This helps in choosing a playlist quickly.

Mediamonkey can also download album art (aka cover art) for your songs from Amazon, although you can do this yourself. Just right-click on an audio file and select properties, and click on Artwork. You can add any artwork from your computer.

Conversion:
MediaMonkey allows you to convert your audio files into various formats like Mp3, Wav, Wma, etc. It also preserves the tag information, so you can transfer it on your portable device and listen to them with ease.

Note: The higher the bit-rate, the larger the output size. So choose the bitrate according to your usage. If you want to listen to music on your portable devices with a headphone, a bit-rate like 192 kbps would do fine.

Syncing with Portable Devices:
MediaMonkey can sync your music library with several devices like iPhones, iPods, Android Devices. Just connect your device and MediaMonkey will automatically detect it, and you can sync your music library.

Tip: If you want to see the album art on your device, make sure the album/cover image is copied to the same folder as the song

There are some useful extensions (scripts) available too, for finding lyrics, album covers, etc but I didn’t install any as I am satisfied with the default options.

MediaMonkey Gold has many cool features like Auto conversion, Sleep Timer, Auto volume leveling,etc.

You can read more about MediaMonkey’s Gold features here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/gold/

Try the free version, it is almost as good as the Gold version.

Pros:
Easy conversion of audio files to various formats.
Auto-tag is good, you can edit the tags manually too.
Supports almost all audio formats.
Skins (available at MM forum and wiki page)

Cons:
No offline help file.
Video formats requires additional codec.

Thanks to Russell Samuels from MediaMonkey, we have 10 licenses of MediaMonkey Gold (version 4) for our readers.

Note: Winners will be asked to send us their full name and email address, which will be forwarded to the developer. They will send you a personal license to the email address you provided.

Version reviewed: MediaMonkey Gold (version 4)
Computer specs:
Dual CPU E2220 – 2.40 GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit)

Giveaway

Thanks to Russell, we are giving away 10 license keys of MediaMonkey Gold  to readers of Avinashtech. Just follow the simple rules below to enter in this draw.

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60 COMMENTS

  1. Please, please, PLEASE count me in the draw! I would love to win this because I use v3 Gold and I am not eligible for a free upgrade to version 4 Gold! This is my go to music program and would so love a license for v4 Gold! I even wrote to the developers, but they made it clear I need to buy a new license to go from v3 Gold to v4 Gold, unless I bought v3 Gold just before v4 Gold was released (which I did not). It would be so awesome to win this and I would get heaps of use out of it – thanks for setting up the giveaway!

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  4. I’d like to win because MediaMonkey is used to combine multimedia playback audio files and database management services to music in digital form. The program offers a multitude of advanced features and plays all popular audio formats like MP3, AAC (M4A), OGG, WMA, FLAC, MPC, WAV, CDA, M3U, PLS, etc.MediaMonkey also allows conversion of audio formats to any other digital format.Thanks for the giveaway 😀  http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=345452272148663&id=100002367153015 https://twitter.com/#!/olobambolo/status/151360782414790656

  5. Thank for this giveaway! A very good Media managing software which I am interested in! I am currently have like more than 5k of song stored on my hard drive and by this it will let me manage my song as I wanted. Currently using iTunes but it crash too often on my Window 7 64-Bit and started to got fed up with it. My though for it is that it consume too much ram while running iTune. MediaMonkey would be a great alternative!

  7. Hi! Good program! Good site!
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  9. Review is good.Mpo MM is great app and I’m using free version for a while.I’ve got a solid number of media files on my PC and MM is great tool for that,so count on me in this giweaway.Mery XMas and happy holidays for everyone

  11. I like to win MediaMonkey Gold License. i like portable version, cd ripping, organizing file features in gold version. thanks.

  12. I use mediamonkey free, i love it. This is a chance at the gold version and all its wonderful features. One of new year’s best wishes i hope.

  14. Hi, this is an excellent media library manager.  I have .mp3 and .wma scattered along several partitions, a global manager such as this one would be great.  I also would like to encode my CD into high quality mp3.  Thanks for counting me in.

  15. awesome player, converter, tagger, sync, burning features, a well designed music library. it allow to edit many tracks at once. Gold provide great features such as it import/export from external devise using its feature virtual cd.
    A good competition to winamp,jetaudio.
    love to have it
    count me in avinash

  18. I’m a music fanatic and I like to win a license of MediaMonkey Gold. This is a fantastic media suite. Thanks for giveaway and congrats for the nice review.

  21. Thanks for the review and giveaway.
    I’ve got a massive media collection and really need this good piece of sw to help me arrange it(don’t like itunes.)

  22. I’ve been using the free version for years, and would love to upgrade to the Gold version. Great review and thanks for the opportunity.

  26. Hello. Thanks for the giveaway for this exclusive program. MediaMonkey 4 Gold is really a great application for music. An interesting and interesting description.
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    Good luck & regards.

  28. I currently use the free version and love it. Used it to replace iTunes a long time again. The Gold version would be a great upgrade and would love a shot at a license.

    Zug

  29. Thanx Ash for the review. MediaMonkey seem a very interesting software: would be nice to have a unique music software. Please count me in!

  30. MediaMonkey was once the best music organizer but as they now added support for video it’s on the way to be the best organizer to manage all your multimedia.

    Thanks for this giveaway.

  31. Thanks for this giveaway. MediaMonkey 4 Gold is one of the best to manage mp3 files. Please count me in. Thanks

  34. The pro version has some interesting features, including the CD catalog database in order to centralize all my music. I’d love to grab one copy. Thank Avinashtech and MediaMonkey.

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  40. I would like a chance to use a program other than iTunes for managing my iPhone. Please include my entry. Thank you.
    Ernie Sampson

  41. I’m game.  Why?  Because I’ve been a very happy MM fan for years and would love to upgrade to a licensed version on the free.  😉

  42. Please count me in to this superb contest. I really need this product and only heard recommendations concerning it.

  44. I have used the basic version of Media Monkey and would love the opportunity to use the Gold version with the additional features!

  46. Wow! This might be 1 particular of probably the most useful blogs I have ever arrive across on this topic. Basically Superb. Its a great software, it has many features like Auto DJ, Auto volume crosefade, Auto volume analyser and many best features like these. Its an awesome player cum convertor.

  48. Ashwingeek are right. The free version is almost as good as the Gold version. But gold is better, so, please include me.!

  52. Hi! Good program and very Good site!

    Truly a fantastic offer! Please Count me 🙂

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  53. THX. MediaMonkey Gold is a really fantastic multimedia manager. Comprehensive management of collections, convert, play, or access to many options and settings makes this the only program needed on the computer. So, please count me. Regards

  55. I compared every audio-organizer on the market and Media Monkey is the only one that i could customize quite fast for my special needs (i found the costumization of foobar2000 too difficult) and that had all the extensions i needed (Monkeyrok, Archive view, Minilyrics, Internet-Tagging, quick conversion). I have a license for version 3 but portability of version 4 and correction of some faults made me move to the new free version – but as this doesnt include some automated functions and conversion ability i would be glad about a license. Thanks! 

  59. Media Monkey is a very good program it does what it says on the tin and it does it well, not going into to much as I could be there all day, would defo like this count me in please thanks. Just like to say thanks Avinashtech for all these fantastic giveaways. 

  60. MediaMonkey Gold is one of the programs I’ve wanted for a long time. So please count me in your contest. Thanks a lot

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