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.
BitMavrick1 added MusicBee as alternative to Groovy - Music Player
POX added MusicBee as alternative to Rune Player
Comments and Reviews
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!
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?
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=28837.0
Reply written Jan 24, 2022
Amazing library management and quite customizable
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Conclusion: MusicBee is a very nice piece of software. Just beware that there are some flaws.
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 ..
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.
It would be nice if it could import the lyrics file.