For Windows, I believe it's the fastest and most versatile player. Updates are frequent and without hasles. User community is great and I find it to be more userfriendly than Foobar

The best music manager/library software.

It can get moods, occasions, genres for songs, album info, add tags from online databases, auto-sync hard drive, etc...

Add me as another MusicBee enthusiast. Lots of feature, good usability, A+.

All this alternatives listed here are not alternatives to MusicBee.
MusicBee doesn't have alternatives.

Lots of customizations possible. You can stay in control over what happens to your files. At the same time decent interface design, with some but not to much eye-candy.

Great interface, plays anything, good ripping engine, good artwork fetching, active community making plugins, responsive developer. Free and all previous versions still available if you don't like changes to newer versions.

I used it for some time, but now i found out how much you can do with the interface, really great program!

I was sold with this media player thanks to the built in Last.FM integration that helps me finally break free of the dependance on stand-alone players for music stats such as play count, favorites, etc. This means that I can, at any time, start from scratch with my media player or library location (due to pc re-build, or a catastrophic recovery etc.) and continue where I left off with all my play counts.

Unfortunately for me, its taken me over 9 years to find a product like this. Media monkey came close but was never reliable. I highly commend the authors of this program for building a light, effecient, yet feature loaded program. In that time, I have lost thousands of play counts and other stats... this is what I've been waiting for.

Pros: Syncs with Last.FM, built in automatic lyrics search, auto playlist generator.

This is an incredible music player. It is much better than iTunes and keeps getting better every month with more functionality.

By now, it is very polished and bug-free and really worth exploring.

Really great media player, replaced my iTunes (bloatware) and even has more functionalities.

Very good player, the only con is that it is a beta, so you can expect bugs.

Excellent balance between ease of use and number of options. The developer takes suggestions on what to add and is extremely helpful in the forums @ getmusicbee.com.

Simple, good looking, packed with features. What can I say - simply awesome. Now I can organize, scrobble to last fm, securely rip and first and foremost LISTEN to my music - all with this great program. No need to install plugins to get features - they're already there! My choice over Foobar2000, MediaMonkey, Winamp ect.

Unbelievable how awesome this media player is. I've used lots of different players and for the past year or so I cam back to MediaMonkey after a long hiatus. MediaMonkey is a great player in it's own right, but I was looking for something faster and leaner with a less clunky interface and just as much power. I tried Songbird and that was a HUGE disappointment. Then, thanks to AlternativeTo, I found MusicBee. Incredibly powerful and feature rich-does everything Songbird wishes it could do and out-muscles even that big gorilla, MediaMonkey. Best of all it manages to stay fast and light, the interface gets out of the way and the learning curve is very forgiving for how much power is under the hood.
This an absolutely beautiful program!
I'm very picky about music players and MusicBee is a keeper!