CDs are now becoming obsolete and with the advent of the broadband internet people now prefer to purchase music in a digital form i.e. an MP3. Now real music junkies would still prefer to listen to have un compressed CD audio but most of us now keep their music collection in digital form. MP3 music can come from various resources which include ripping your CDs yourself, online music stores like iTunes and Amazon as well as the illegal downloading through torrents or other P2P networks. While music downloaded through the iTunes should have the proper ID3 tag information with the album artworks, there is no guarantee that the songs from other resources would have the same.
So if you have a large unorganized collection of music, say, over 10GB of data on your hard drive, you will definitely need a music manager application to properly tag and organize your music library. I normally use MediaMonkey or SongBird for this task but here is another free of cost music manager called MusicBee which definitely looks promising.
The features of music bee at a glance are
- Organize music files and edit tags in your library with a powerful and easy to use interface.
- Have new music files automatically added to your library from monitored folders, with the option to tag the files from an Inbox beforehand.
- Securely rip CD tracks as individual files or as a single album with embedded cuesheet, and with AccurateRip.com validation.
- Automatically look up Album Art, Lyrics and tag other metadata from the web. Have a track identified using its digital sound signature.
- Play MP3, FLAC, Vorbis, WMA files and optionally have tracks scrobbled to Last.fm. Play the web – playlists are created from MP3 blogs you visit.
- Play and Sync iPods and MP3 players, converting and leveling tracks on-the-fly.
- Create dynamic playlists based on your own rules.
- Have the Auto-DJ create a playlist for you and discover new music tracks from the web (or old ones from your collection you have forgotten about!)
- Sync with the number of devices including iPod, iPhone, USB and MTP devices.
- Ability to convert the music formats of the files you have in library.
MusicBee has released the second release candidate and since the time I have started using it I have not encountered any major bug or problem. MusicBee is made by a guy called Steven from UK who is an IT project manager and do the programming for fun, so I hope this application would remain free of cost.
To download and get more insight into MusicBee please visit http://www.getmusicbee.com
Good find geek – restored my faith in Music managers.