Music Match just sucks. I have been using Music Match Jukebox for years and years and I am generally brand loyal, but lately my little mp3 playing application on my computer has become so bloated and such a memory hog that it is nearly impossible to play any decent tunes from it any longer.
Grabbing the trusty laptop and a cup of coffee I retired to Google to find a better music player. And I found it with Media Monkey. A free application that has the capablility for upgrades and extra funcationality for a low price ($34 for a lifetime license) I haven’t upgraded yet because I am still trying it out, but right now I am quite smitten.
This application is everything you want to your media player to be. It quickly reads your library and using a shell kernal of code based on MS Access, it can quickly sort, tag, move and edit your library, regardless of size! I have a huge library, consisting of years of downloading, plus all of my cds and all of my sister’s cds ripped to various hard drives in the house.
Using the amazing world of wireless internet, I have shared those files in a simple and stable server environment, then told my laptop, equipped with media monkey to simply go find them.
It did and in minutes (I expected hours ! ) all the songs were in its little library ready to be enjoyed wirelessly.
This application is quite slick. It supports CD burning, ample and flexible playlist generation and managment and works very well with my Creative Zen Vision M Mp3 player. It also works great with Ipods, according to many user’s comments.
It is fast, doesn’t take all day to load and uses many Winamp plugins if you want to add functionality.
I am enclosing a few user forum notes to let you get the feel of what others think as well.
Now go out there, download it and ditch Music Match for good. Yahoo ruined MM and Media Monkey is it’s suitable replacement.
hmm, full functionality and a user friendly interface? No thank you, sir. I’ll go back to corrupted media files and hidden data tracks unusable to other applications, thank you! I am an iTunes user, and apparently I don’t need my music for anything other than my iPod… because it won’t let me use it for anything else.
go take your pipe dreams of wireless access and total music accessibility elsewhere! Nice try, jerk