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MusicBee

Offers library and playlist management, auto folder monitoring, podcast downloads, web radio, advanced tagging, custom ID3 tags, CD ripping with validation, syncing to iPods, iPhones, MTP, USB, converts and normalizes audio, fetches album art and tags from web.

Promo 1: Main Features

Cost / License

  • Free Personal
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows
Promo 2: Main Features
Now Playing view
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-Library View. -Waveform Seekbar / Progress bar
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Features

Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Library Organization
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  Skins
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Automatic Lyrics Finder
  6.  Artwork
  7.  Music Library
  8.  Library Management
  9.  Playlists management
  10.  Auto tag music
  11.  Auto fetch album covers
  12.  No registration required
  13.  Themes
  14. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  15.  Custom Tagging
  16.  Dark Mode
  17.  Modularity
  18.  Smart playlists
  19.  Built-In ID3 Tag Editor
  20.  Podcast Player
  21.  Skin customization
  22.  Portable
  23.  Internet Radio
  24.  Waveform Seekbar
  25.  Automatic Tagging
  26.  Modular extensions
  27.  Lossless Audio
  28.  File Tagging
  29. SoundCloud icon  SoundCloud Integration
  30.  Support for Lyrics
  31.  Surround sound
  32.  Skinnable
  33.  Path Filters

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: MusicBee is highly praised for its extensive features, including seamless Last.fm integration, robust tagging, and customization options. Users appreciate its ability to manage large music libraries efficiently and its lightweight, fast performance. While some users express concerns about its lack of open source availability and Linux support, the active community and developer responsiveness are highlighted as strengths. Despite minor bugs, many find MusicBee superior to alternatives like iTunes and MediaMonkey.
Top Positive Comment
Gurudev1000
5

MusicBee is mostly maintained and created by one man Stephen Mayall. This is the biggest strength because the passion of the developer makes sure that most or ALL of the drawbacks of the player are smoothed out as soon as the user complains about it in the forums. if they can't be due to a reason then SM mentions it in the replies.

The interface of the player is the BEST I have seen so far in managing so many complicated views and information for any playing track. This player is what I use for arranging the 7000+ mp3s in my folders in any way I want. As mentioned before, the seamless Last.fm integration and ability to resync playcount allows one to format their pc and start fresh without having to worry about their playcount as per the player stats.

The online tagging system of the software is great though I personally still prefer Picard. But I must admit the album art collection in UNSURPASSED even in dedicated softwares for album art collection.

This along with a lot other features make this the best music player that money (it's free but still) can buy!

Top Negative Comment
carlosvgonzalez
-2

Where's Opus support? Owner took it out, and in latest versions does not work even if it has the codec in "Codecs" folder, why would anyone take the best most modern open source codec out?

rygle

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=28837.0

Tostado
0

would be perfect with linux support

fredofredo
0

It's straight forwards, plays my music and the CD ripper is a bonus.

Melatonin-Samba
2

Amazing library management and quite customizable

anselmus
2

What I really like:

  1. I can have random playback like random albumplayback of album randomly
  2. Syncing to Smartphone
  3. Waveform seekbar
  4. Good community

What I don't like:

  1. Not open source
  2. No linux support
  3. Settings menu...
  4. DO NOT USE "send to/move to folder" ("senden an/in Ordner verschieben")! It literally led to all my music files landing in a single folder. All my covers being overwritten, 2 day recovery operation and my playlists being gone (as a result of forgetting to backup my musicbee database)!
  5. Backup your playlists, musicbee database and your playlists in an open format like m3u8 lads.

Conclusion: MusicBee is a very nice piece of software. Just beware that there are some flaws.

asamirid
2

my favorite offline music player since years .. portable, lightweight, customizable interface, easy tags and cover art editor, and more ..

it's very rich featured app with alot of settings and plugins..

it's maybe confusing and overwhelming in the beginning, but it's very good set and forget stable player ..

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What is MusicBee?

Manage your music as a library, as playlists or as folders on the file-system. Organize, browse and find music on your computer, on portable devices and on the web. Small or large collections are handled with ease. Have folders watched for new tracks and added to your library, with the option to tag the files from an Inbox beforehand. Also manage and download Podcast subscriptions and listen to your favourite radio stations, including those from Shoutcast, Jamendo and Last.fm.

Tag music easily, with the full complement of IDv2.3 tags available for use and custom tags that can be configured to track other less common types of information. Play MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and other formats and optionally have those tracks scrobbled to Last.fm. You are not restricted to music files on your computer - you can play video files and streams from the web as well. Playlists are automatically created from MP3 blogs and web pages you visit.

Securely rip tracks from your CD collection as individual files or as a single album file with an embedded cue sheet. You can also have your rips validated against AccurateRip.com for extra assurance. Synchronize music files, podcasts and playlists from your library, or music files from any folder to many portable devices. These include iPods, iTouch/iPhones, MTP devices (most portable devices other than iPods), and USB devices. You can let MusicBee automatically transfer an assortment of your most frequently played tracks or drag and drop files manually to the device yourself.

Convert music files from one format to another without losing tag values; normalize the volume of your files so you don't have to keep adjusting the volume; update missing tags and album artwork from the web; and more.

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Our users have written 66 comments and reviews about MusicBee, and it has gotten 603 likes

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