Are you the sort of person who likes to keep every piece of mp3 meta data correct? You have album art for every song in your music library and spend hours keeping your favorite artists’ Wikipedia entry up-to-the-minute?
Well it’s a shame then that many music jukebox applications don’t provide the functionality for people like you. If you’ve ever wanted to be able to browse your library by genre, sub genre, sub-sub-sub genre, music label and city of origin then I have found something in which you can do it.
Helium Music Manager unfortunately isn’t actually free, but it has a 30 day trial period so if it sounds good then I’d recommend giving it a shot.
Helium Music Manager provides a way to actually use every piece of data you have on an artist. You can have biographies, lyrics for every song, associated artists, see which bands individual musicians have been in and much more. Everything is analysed and collected into graphs and statistics, so you can see how much of your library was produced by EMI during the year 1970 if you so wished.
The biggest problem with Helium is just that it takes a lot of time to get your collection organized… there is no ‘batch tag’ option and for every artist you will need to go through and individually download and save data, lyrics, details, biography, reviews etc. However if you don’t mind then I would defiantly recommend this as a music organizer alternative.
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I have been a loyal reader of this site for some time and have discovered many freeware alternatives to commercial software thanks to ghacks, what a shame then that I had to get half way through reading this article only to discover that this about a shareware program that actually costs $39. there are already to many shareware review sites out there and I for one would be disappointed to see this site become another one.
That will not happen, rest assured.
MediaMonkey works fine for my needs. That one’s free.
the best nonfree jukebox is MP3Toys
This is far and away the best music management app. It is difficult to learn how to use, but it is so powerful and flexible, including so many features that make it so useful.
Plus, it’s interface is much easier to get around than many of the other free and paid for apps out there.
Good recommendation.