MediaMonkey
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| Developer: | Ventis Media Inc. |
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| Latest release: | 2.5.4 / September 2006 |
| OS: | Microsoft_Windows |
| Use: | Media player |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | www.mediamonkey.com |
MediaMonkey (no connection with Monkey's Audio, the lossless audio codec), made by Ventis Media Inc, is an audio player that also functions as a media library. It maintains its library in a database that is compatible with Microsoft's Access database format, and as such, the database entries can be changed by using Access or other compatible programs.
MediaMonkey is extensible using script-based code, giving users access to new functionality and creating the possibility of extending the program themselves. Using this interface one could access almost any aspect of MediaMonkey's organizational capabilities via an external application - or script - that can be fully integrated with MediaMonkey.
Music formats that MediaMonkey supports are OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC and MPC. Music can be ripped from Audio CDs and converted between most of these formats. MediaMonkey includes a multi-format tag editor that can save to a variety of tag formats for the files it supports, including: ID3v1 and v2, Ogg comments, WMA, APE2, and WAV tags. It also handles automatic and "intelligent" tagging of files based on filenames through use of the Auto-Tagger.
Support for portable audio devices allows one button synchronisation to synchronise tracks and playlists with a broad range of portable devices including the iPod, iriver H300 series, Sony Ericsson W800i and Plays for Sure devices.
MediaMonkey is feature-rich media and highly customizable. A powerful bulk edit option exists for many of the software tools that the program provides. For example, song files can be selected en masse and their file names changed to conform to the songs' ID tags, or their volume levels "normalized," or their album art set to a specified picture file.
As of 2006, MediaMonkey is being actively developed with new releases available two or three times a year. In addition, users are able to contribute to the development process by submitting requests to the developers, who frequently visit the official forum.
[edit] Release versions
- 2.5.4: Released September 2006, It adds close to 50 improvements and fixes including improved synchronization for iPods and Zen Devices, better support for wav tags, and a new CD/DVD burning engine.
- 2.5.3: Released June 2006, a minor release that adds over 40 improvements and fixes.
- 2.5.2: Released March 2006, this release adds improved synchronisation for iPods, Plays for Sure devices, and the Sony Ericsson W800i walkman phone, improved CD/DVD burning, and updated codecs/encoders.
- 2.5.1: Released December 2005, this release adds Party Mode, Auto-DJ, MP3 (Data) CD/DVD burning, support for WMA DRM, FLAC encoding, on-the-fly conversion during synchronisation, and support for the latest iPods and most recent iRiver and Creative Labs devices.
- 2.4.2: Released July 2005, this release adds basic streaming, a number of fixes, and support for the newly released iPod firmware.
- 2.4.1: Released June 2005, this release adds iPod support and includes a bunch of other fixes and minor improvements.
- 2.3.1: Released February 2005.
- 2.2.2: Released August 2004.
