MediaMonkey is an easy-to-use organizer for serious music collectors. It catalogs your CDs, MP3, WMA, and OGG audio tracks, and looks up and intelligently tags and renames/reorganizes them.

MediaMonkey rips CDs, converts audio file formats, and easily creates mixes. MediaMonkey integrates with Nero for CD Burning, and with Winamp for playback.

MediaMonkey even includes a built-in player that supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins, and automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don’t have continually fiddle with the volume control. MediaMonkey is a software that will play, ripp and organize your music collection.

The freeware version of MediaMonkey can be upgraded to the GOLD version which allows you to access to a variety of cool features:
· File Monitor (automatically updates library)
· Integrated CD/DVD Burner (Audio & Data) Up to 48x
· Support for Multiple Collections (e.g. Rock & Classical)
· On-the-fly Audio Conversion and Leveling for Syncs and Burns
· Advanced Searches and AutoPlaylists
· Unlimited MP3 encoding
· Virtual CD / Previews & Sleep Timer
· Automatic library organizer (as a background process)
· High-speed conversion / leveling on multi-core systems

In order to get the gold version, please access this link.

Here are some key features of „MediaMonkey“:

· A Library which tracks all of the music on your hard drive or on CDs that you own
· Automatically updates based on changes to your music (Gold)
· Automatically update audio CD/track information from Amazon and Freedb
· Organizes music by different attributes, and provides powerful search facilities
· Finds Tracks with problems such as duplicate titles, duplicate content, missing tags
· Allows you to easily update properties, and tag your music using industry-standard formats (ID3v1&v2, OGG, WMA, APE2)
Allows you to edit many tracks at once:
· Automatically organize and rename files on your hard disk based on the music’s properties
· Automatically and intelligently tag files based on filenames
· Advanced, intuitive playlist management
· Import and export M3U playlists
· Drag and drop tracks to rapidly create playlists
· Automatically update playlists in response to tracks that have been moved
· Organize playlists hierarchically
· AutoPlaylists to dynamically create mixes based on predefined criteria
· High-quality audio playback (MP3, WMA, OGG, MPC, APE, etc.)
· Supports Winamp-compatible input/output plug-ins to enable add-on functionality
· Supports Winamp-compatible DSP effects such as DFX, for improved audio
· Supports Visualization plug-ins for funky visual effects that match your music
· Includes a 10 band equalizer to customize your audio experience
· Levels Volume so that you no longer have to adjust the volume knob up and down when music has been recorded at different levels
· Integrates with Winamp 2.x if you’re used to Winamp as a player and MediaMonkey as your organizer
· Synchronizes your music with your portable audio devices
Encoding into various formats (OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV) so that you can easily add music to your collection:
· Rips audio CD content to your hard drive, with jitter correction for troublesome CDs
· Converts from one audio format to another
· Import/Export songs from external sources with ease, using the Virtual CD (Gold)
· Generate previews – short 20-40kb samples of songs to help qualify unknown music (Gold)
· Burn Audio CDs.

Requirements:

· Sound Card

What’s New in This Release:

· Art Browser sometimes represents now Playing file instead of the selected file
· Auto Tag from Web can throw an error on closing
· Reading of a specific JPEG file causes AV
· Properties > Artwork is very slow for large images (regression)
· Auto Tag from Amazon triggers changes in file selection