MusicBee Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• What would be the best lossless codec for long term storage/archival of CD rips?

  Seriously though, it's time to explore! Foobar2000 and MusicBee are both freeware alternatives to WMP that are well-known in the audiophile community. - Source: Reddit / 15 days ago

• Music naming with Musicbrainz Picard?

  If you're using Windows, [MusicBee](https://getmusicbee.com) has an "Organize" command that will move files into folder locations [based on their metadata and user-defined templates](https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/File_Organization). - Source: Reddit / 15 days ago

• is there such thing as a "beginner" guide? Just got a shanling m3x, but confused.

  On the PC, I used to use Media Monkey, because it supported my iPod. But with my new DAP, I switched to MusicBee. It allows me to select all tracks based on a specified criteria (like directory structure, or file name), and then I can add album art and set MP3/FLAC tags. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• Opened Groove to listen some music, only to find it's been replaced by the new Media Player.

  A suggestion - try out MusicBee. Install it > Files > Scan folders for new files. Point it at your top-level music folder. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• What's the best music manager app for Windows11?

  I like MusicBee a lot, but I have a ton of music that was recovered after an accidental deletion. For anyone that has had that happen, I found MusicBrainz Picard to help get some song names back. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Tell me about your must-have first and third-party apps for Windows 11. Anything goes, both free and premium

  Not for me though, I need a full music library organizer for my music collection. Musicbee can auto-tag, sort into my prefered folder, build playlists, auto-level volume, and show lyrics. I need those features! - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• First day - advice? changed to Windows11 and need advice on moving my music

  Don't bother with it for music. I suggest trying MusicBee. It handles large libraries with ease. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Any recommendations for a music manager and player that can actually handle compilation albums and "Various Artist" albums?

  I recommend MusicBee. I have a Billboard compilation album, and it works fine. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago

• Winamp 5.9 Final Released

  I've used both Foobar and MusicBee (on Windows) and personally I prefer MusicBee's interface. It works well with my library of 21k files - not sure how it performs with libraries much larger. https://getmusicbee.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Hey just got my first iPod. Wondering if there is a reason some covers appear and some don’t. The files all have covers on them on my Mac but the covers don’t appear on the iPod.

  MusicBee is excellent. After 15 years of using Media Monkey, I've decided to move to MusicBee. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• Ripping DVD's/CD's

  MusicBee is great for ripping CDs to various formats (mp3, m4a, FLAC, etc.) It's very good at adding the correct tags and album art to the rips. If you have ample digital storage, consider ripping the CDs in a lossless format (like FLAC) for archival purposes. The lossless files can always be converted to a lossy format like mp3 for putting on your phone or something. Https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/Ripping. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• Hide your llamas

  MusicBee replaced Winamp/foobar2000 for me a long time ago, and I've had a tough time finding any alternatives that really measure up. It's one of the few things besides gaming that's keeping me on Windows these days (although it can apparently run pretty well via WINE on Linux). - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• A list of free & open-source apps I use on Windows

  MusicBee is a music player with tons of features. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• Music cover in new media player

  Try this fix - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/musicandvideo/forum/all/a-fix-for-missing-album-art-in-groove-music/b8fc22ba-dba1-4364-a7f2-09ad026d5dfc Still not working? Use MusicBee and have one less thing to be frustrated about. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Software to get info on my music library

  MusicBee Https://i.imgur.com/r7D7LSl.png You can sort by file extension, select all of one file type and slide them into a new playlist. That'll tell you the # of tracks. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• A Good Music Player

  Have you checked out Music Bee? https://getmusicbee.com/. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• album art extractor (Win 10 x64)

  In MusicBee, you can right-click the image to copy or save. Https://i.imgur.com/9qWEPO7.png Been using this site for many years to get good hq album art, usually better than what's embedded - https://albumartexchange.com/. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Copy files to micro sd on PC or using M6 ?

  I use MusicBee to copy to my M6 using a standard USB C cable, and I get about 1GB/min. Of course, I don't use Bluetooth or Wifi on my M6, so that might be a factor. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Windows 11 music library cleanup tools. Trying to make it less painful for soulseek users browsing my files.

  I use Musicbee with MusicBrainz integrated https://getmusicbee.com - then it's only a matter of installing MB, going into Preference > Library > Organisation. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• USB playing music?

  MusicBee is very useful for maintaining separate libraries. It also allows bulk tag edits. And it's free. 700 albums is still 700 albums though. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Windows Media Player 11 bypass?

  Just out of curiosity, why is it not installed already on your system, and why WMP? Why not MusicBee and VLC? - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago