Top 5 Music Players And Managers

Manage your audio files and optimize your music. 

You buy a track here and there, and when you’re feeling fancy, maybe even a whole album. Then of course there’s so many great podcasts stream and download… And so you carry on, minding your own business, steadily amassing an enviable audio library and then, boom! Before you know it you, you’ve got 1,000s of audio files to manage and it suddenly all gets too much! Have no fear. Our Top 5 music players and managers have got your back. The apps featured in this collection are: Clementine Player; GOM Audio; MediaMonkey; TunesGo; and VOX.

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Clementine Player

Clementine Player has been inspired by the cross-platform, open source music player Amarok, but Clementine Player is a more modern-looking music player and library organiser, which focuses on a fast and easy-to-use interface, so that you can quickly find and play your music. A lightweight app that’s kind on CPU resource, Clementine Player comes with some neat features such as tabbed playlists, the ability to import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX; plus the option to download any missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon. Other features include cloud storage support, smart playlists and dynamic playlists; podcasts; CUE sheet support; file conversion into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC. Finally, you can also fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.

GOM Audio

From the makers of the highly popular GOM Player, GOM Audio delivers high quality audio and offers a bunch of cool features. Its interface is simple and easy to navigate – and – is even skinnable, so if you don’t like how it looks, you can easily choose a different skin from the preferences menu. Another option we really like is ‘Sync Lyrics’ feature for audio playback, which displays the lyrics of your favourite song as you listen. If no lyrics are available online, you can enter your own lyrics using the Sync Lyrics Editor and then upload them. That not your thing? Then how about the GOM Pod Service for downloading or streaming podcasts? Finally, GOM Audio supports tons of audio formats including: Audio CD/.MP3/.M4A/.OGG/.WMA/.WAV/.MID/.FLAC/.APE/.PLS, and audio that’s encoded in .AAC is supported when saved as .M4A, plus you can edit ID3 tags.

MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey is a music manager and music player for serious music collectors. It catalogues your CDs and your audio files such as OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing album art and track information via Freedb and the web. The app also has an automated file and directory-namer to organize your music library. Got a massive music collection? No problem: MediaMonkey can manage more than 50,000 music files collection without slowdown! Other features in its locker include conversion of MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats with the Audio Converter; plus, you can record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files. And for a more personalised experience, it features customizable skins, visualizations, plug-ins and scripts to make MediaMonkey do exactly what you want it to.

TunesGo

TunesGo from Wondershare is a powerful multi-platform app that provides a flexible way of managing the content on your mobile device. The TunesGo app has been designed to help you share music with your Android or iOS device and manage your files. One of the great things about TunesGo is that it automatically converts almost any music file to a format that’s supported by your device. Other cool features include the ability to automatically analyze and clean up libraries in just a few clicks, plus you can manually tag your music, change cover art, delete duplicates, and remove missing/broken tracks; giving you full control of your whole music collection. Want more? TunesGo also supports Android device rooting. A feature for the more advanced user, rooting your device lets you remove ads that come with your Android apps, and uninstall things like pre-installed apps.

VOX

VOX is a feature-rich music player, which allows you to store all of your music in one place. It can play pretty much every type of music file, everything from lossless files like FLAC, ALAC and WAV, to compressed files like MP3 and AAC. VOX is compatible with different audio sources including iTunes, so you can easily enjoy your full iTunes library, with full access to your playlists, albums and artwork. You can also control audio output sources such as Bluetooth and AirPlay. It features a smart equalizer with built-in presets that also allows you to create your own custom controls. VOX is all about simplicity, resulting in a crisp and concise interface that is just so easy to use. An in-app purchase will also bag you over 3,000 radio stations; plus VOX has full SoundCloud integration.