MediaMonkey Gold 5.0.4.2690 Crack+[2023]

Sweeden-based Spotify started in as a way for users to stream music directly to their device while providing royalties to the artist. Along with Pandora, Google Music, Amazon Music and iTunes,

For users who are looking for a powerful program to manage their large media libraries, MediaMonkey provides a comprehensive range of features that cover virtually any media situation imaginable. Whether you have a thousand files to manage or a hundred thousand, MediaMonkey can process and update all your files and then organize them automatically however you like.

Unfortunately, that degree of control comes with a trade-off in terms of user interface and ease of use. Basic tools are easily usable, but the more powerful features require a bit of time to learn. Once you see it whip a mess of media files into a coherently organized library, however, you’ll be happy that you took the time to learn its little tricks

My name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve been working with digital media on my home computers almost since the concept was invented. Downloading media files over a dial-up internet connection was a painfully slow process, but it was also what started my media collection.

Over the years since then, I’ve only grown my collection, which has given me a clear understanding of how the world of digital media has evolved. As part of my later training as a graphic designer, I spent a long time learning the ins and outs of user interface and experience design, which makes it easy for me to spot the differences between a well-designed program and one that needs some work.

MediaMonkey did not provide me with a free copy of their software in exchange for this review, and they have had no editorial input or control over the content. All the views expressed in this review are my own.

Also, it may be worth noting that we actually purchased the program on our own budget (receipt below) in order to conduct this review. That allowed me to access and test all premium features.

The import process went smoothly enough, and I was able to configure MediaMonkey to constantly monitor my Media folder for changes, but you can already see that poor lonely Rage Against the Machine MP3 that has lost the rest of its album in the first library screenshot. There are a few other issues that I’d like to clear up, including missing track numbers and other hassles that are a pain to fix manually.

I also added in a few audiobooks to test how well the program handled different audio types – you wouldn’t want to be playing your collection on shuffle only to suddenly be dropped into the middle of a book. While MediaMonkey supports audiobooks, the collection isn’t enabled by default.

After a bit of searching, I found that it’s possible to enable the collection separately – but not all of my audiobooks were tagged properly.

MediaMonkey FAQs

What is MediaMonkey?

It is an incredibly powerful and flexible media manager for the dedicated collector, and is not really intended for the casual media user.

It combines a number of different programs into one, including a media player, a CD ripper/encoder, a tag manager and an advanced media library manager. It’s been in development for 16 years, and was finally renamed from Songs-DB to MediaMonkey with the release of back in .

Is MediaMonkey Free?

The free version is still a great program and it doesn’t come with any usage restrictions, but it’s just missing some of the more advanced options.

You can unlock the most powerful media library organization features and save yourself countless hours of effort by purchasing the Gold version of the software. To see the complete list of differences between the two versions, you can see a comparison list here on the MediaMonkey website.

Is MediaMonkey Safe to Use?

The application is perfectly safe to use from a software security perspective. The installer file and the program files that are installed pass checks by Microsoft Security Essentials and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, and no unwanted third-party software is installed.

The only time that you might find yourself running into problems is if you accidentally delete a file from your computer using the library manager. Because MediaMonkey interacts directly with your files it must have this capability, but as long as you’re careful, your media will be safe. If you download any community-developed scripts or extensions, make sure you completely understand their functions before running them!

Does It Work on Mac?

Unfortunately, the software is officially only available for Windows as of the time of this review. It is possible to run MediaMonkey using a virtual machine for Mac, but it may not work quite as you would expect – and the developer might not be willing to offer technical support.

On the other hand, there are several threads on the official forum from users who are running it successfully with Parallels, so you may be able to find some community support if you run into trouble.

Is MediaMonkey Gold Worth It?

The free version of MediaMonkey is very capable, but if you’re serious about your digital media collection then you need the advanced management features that the Gold version offers.

Considering that even the cheapest licensing level ($24.95 USD) offers free updates for any v4 edition of the software as well as any major version updates that happen within a year of your purchase, Gold is well worth the money.

You can also purchase a slightly more expensive Gold license that includes lifetime updates for $49.95, although MediaMonkey has taken 14 years to go from v2 to v4 and the developers haven’t made any comments about when the next version will be released.

Is MediaMonkey Better than iTunes?

In most respects, these two programs are quite similar. iTunes has a more polished interface, access to the iTunes store and is available for Mac, but MediaMonkey is much more capable of managing complex libraries.

iTunes is designed around the assumption that all of your media files will come from either the iTunes store or be created through iTunes, but that’s not the case for a lot of users. If you ever ripped CDs you owned, downloaded from any other source, or have files with damaged or incomplete metadata, iTunes will be of little help unless you want to tag everything by hand – a process which would take hours, if not days of tedious work.

MediaMonkey can handle these issues automatically, saving you all that time for something more productive.

It’s probably just a coincidence that iTunes suddenly felt the need to offer me a new version for the first time in months right as I was writing this review… probably.