Helium Music Manager
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A music cataloger, tag editor, cd ripper, audio converter, mp3 and flac analyzer, duplicate finder, player and music scrobbler - all in one.
EU
Features
- Music Library
- iPhone/iPod sync
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Audio Conversion
- Keyword Research
Tags
- Music manager
- shoutcast
- audio-tagging
- Audio CD Burner
- device-synchronization
Helium Music Manager News & Activities
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Recent activities
- Lehuga added Helium Music Manager as alternative to TrayMp3
- babsors liked Helium Music Manager
OpenSourceSoftware added Helium Music Manager as alternative to Mtoc
POX removed Helium Music Manager as alternative to DivX
Danilo_Venom added Helium Music Manager as alternative to TidyTag Music Tag Editor
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What is Helium Music Manager?
You can take control of your music collection. Stop spending time looking for files on your computer or hunting through CDs, vinyl records and tapes - instead, simply enjoy and explore your music! Helium Music Manager can replace your ripper, player, tag editor and other audio related software.
Supported audio formats : mp3, mp4, wav, aac, m4a, wma, ogg, flac, WavPack, mpc and ape.
Features summary :
- Extended tagging possibilities (mass tagging, tag from filename...)
- Supported metadata standards : ID3, Vorbis Comments, APE, WMA or AAC tags
- Burn / rip CDs
- Watch folders
- Intelligent playlists
- Now playing in Live messenger and other IM clients (Trillian, Miranda for instance) thanks to the AMIP plugin (you have to download it and activate the function in Helium preferences).
- Import your library from Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp or Media Monkey (Play counts, history and other information will be transfered over to Helium Music Manager)
- Get a more visually appealing music collection by adding pictures to your artists and album art to your records. We support downloading of pictures from sources such as Yahoo, Google, Amazon.com, Discogs and Last.fm
- Download and apply tags to your files using a wide range of online services. Available services include freedb, Amazon.com, Discogs and Musicbrainz
- Track suggestions when playing with enqueue / play now functions
- Acess your library from anywhere with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
- Different library views (detailed list & album view, coverflow, cover list) + a statistical overview of your music experience throughout time.
Helium Music Manager information
Developed by
Imploded Software Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
76 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Helium is a project i was folllowing since the beginning, and now i can say it is a mature music player and organizer that can be compared (if not even better) with more famous ones. The interface is clear, modern and ergonomic, sound quality is great, organizer features are very good and it has good conversions options. Tagging features are good too. Even if I still think MediaMonkey is the best around, I greatly suggested Helium to who doesnt want to pay for the full featured version of MediaMonkey since Helium has most of the features MediaMonkey gives only in the premium version.
To be honest, I can't provide a fully objective review of Helium. I installed it and got my library up and running but that was where the good news ended. Practically every time I tried to do something I was told that in order to do that I must upgrade to premium. Well, I'm not really prepared to spend money buying something if I have to make that decision based on not knowing how it works. There are too many really brilliant Free/Open Source options out there for me to be bothered with the likes of Helium. So, in short I have no real idea how good Helium is. If they make it that difficult to find out if it's any good then count me out. A full-featured; time limited free trial might be a better idea.
EDIT: After four years I decided to give Helium another chance. It turns out that pretty much everything I previously said still holds true. There are however, some other worrying issues not least of which is that my album collection - currently 5,862 albums (69,748 tracks) but Helium only recognises 4,268 albums (52,737 tracks). That's going to take a lot of sorting out and I really don't want to have to do that. All of this is a shame because Helium does look good and it offers a lot. However, the free alternatives out there do just as good a job and don't come with built in hassle.
I am customer since version 8 - now we are at 14. Until version 11 I liked the product very much - to me it was be the best in market to manage larger music colletions. The user interface was a bit old fashioned but well-arranged and functional. With my ~40k song titles the performance was pretty okay. Then, with version 12 the authors decided to change tech stack and re-develop it from scratch. It now looks more fresh and modern but and with version 14 most features of version 11 are available.
However, some features have been re-arranged in a strange matter - to me the new user interface doesn't support the way I would like to use the app. Finally I do not see any advantage in the re-implementation and I am not sure if this was done to better support the user or the developers.