Handling Your Media

Since I have acquired a lot of audio and video from various artists, as I do run a music web site for independent home recording musicians that make great tunes, and my daughter has purchased an iPod, I have grown to have increasing interest in efficient media management.

I have really gained a shining for Media Monkey, ot is a very capable, very powerful, and very easy to use, media management tool. Ir does a lot more thn simply tag and label audio tracks and play lists, it also rips to multiple options of bit depths, stores multiple playlists, stores by artist and genre labels, has templated options for tagging, syncs to your devices to keep everything up to date, and even searches your media library for duplicate files, which is inevitable as your library grows out of control.

It also supports mp3, aac, flac, ogg, wav, wma, cda and many other formats. Much of that is just in the free features, "gold" edition features include dividing your colection into multiple "collections" for syncing different tastes for different people for different devices, which is great for families. Auto conversion features for format conversion also includes auto leveling, which is very handy for creating playlists from different sources that are digitized at different levels. Gold version also includes CD burning capabilities.

There are also many addons available to make Media Monkey work in different ways, plugins for DSP effects, skins to change appearance, visualization and much more are available.

For a very reasonable price you can also upgrade to a lifetime license. This is what I did, you get a lifetime of unlimited upgrades, so you can always stay current, even across major version upgrades.

If you are looking for a media management application, give the free Media Monkey a try, I'm pretty confident you'll dig it.