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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.

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Cost / License

  • Free Personal
  • Proprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
4.5
Excellent44 reviews
588likes
64comments
0news articles

Features

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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
  34.  Virtual Tags
  35.  Built-in CUE Sheet Editor

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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
dankijote
6

I was trying music management software from top to bottom. Foobar, itunes, winamp, etc. MusicBee was 6 or 7th position. The first ones disappointed me for one reason or another. And my last chance was this one MusicBee. I was not expecting very much. And what a surprise! This player is amazing! It has a lot of features and it a lot of settings... It is an amazing piece of software. It is light and works perfectly. I am in love with it. Give it a chance!

Top Negative Comment
Harish Sridharan
-1

It's a pretty good music player but when I installed the latest installer version "MusicBeeSetup_3_3_Update6", I ran totalvirus just to check and it showed me that it has a trojan virus, "Trojan.Bladabindi.Win32.43958". I'm not sure it's a false positive but I reccomend you download it from the microsoft store just to be safe

Melatonin-Samba
1

Amazing library management and quite customizable

anselmus
1

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 ..

Guest
0

MusicBee was able to open an old itunes library and consider the "date when file was added", while an old iTune version didn't do that. You can also change the speakers while playing, it will continue to play. If you have lost files in your library, you can indicate one of the album and it will find the other by itself. You can also retrieve the track tags based on the file names or on the few tags already present. You can also give global keyboards shortcuts to play/pause/go next/go last.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
bling912717
-1

It would be nice if it could import the lyrics file.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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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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MusicBee information

  • Developed by

    GB flagSteven Mayall
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5 (44 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    124 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 64 comments and reviews about MusicBee, and it has gotten 588 likes

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