Introduction

Welcome to MediaMonkey!  MediaMonkey will help you manage very large music collections, consisting of music files (MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, MPC, VQF, WAV files) and/or audio CDs. With MediaMonkey you won't need separate applications for organizing, tagging, creating playlists, renaming files, converting file formats, etc.

 MediaMonkey is extremely capable, yet intuitive and nimble.  The standard version of MediaMonkey includes most of the functionality the average user will need, while the Gold version includes several improvements for the avid collector. MediaMonkey includes:

• A Library which tracks all of the music on your hard drive or on CDs that you own and:
  • Automatically updates based on changes to your music (Gold)
  • Automatically fetches audio CD/track information from Freedb and/or other www sites 
  • 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 through integration with Nero