Music player for Windows like PowerAmp on Android

Looks good, I'll be installing it when I get home. Last time I tried it was quite a while ago, I see it's been updated since!
 
Aye really impressed so far.

I'm also half tempted to systematically go through all untagged albums and tag them all which will take ages but should be worth it now that I've got a well laid out player!
 
I have not but I will now!

Also the library stats part of musicbee is immense, so much information is available about your playback history there. Can't believe all this is available for free. Also windows taskbar controls in the thumbnail all customisable.
 
Sorry for the bump but I have to say thanks to you guys (Window first mentioned it!) for MusiicBee - It's astonishing, I have it set up and am using MusicBrainz (have been all night) going through all untagged tracks and tagging them, it's such a good app so thanks for that as well benjo :D.

Here's how it finally looks:

Main player:
MusicBeeMainPlayer.jpg


The dynamic Track Playing tab:
MusicBee_NowPLayingInfo.jpg


The playback queue screen:
MusicBee_NowPlayingQueue.jpg


The compact player mode which cycles random artist pictures and also has the lyrics tab which works brilliantly:
MusicBee_CompactPlayer.jpg


I am over the moon :)
 
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Hmmm, I'm a long term Winamp user (even paid for it waaaaay back with v1.9) but I'm gonna give MusicBee a go now! :)
 
It's just so good I would definitely recommend giving it a go :)

There's so much to tweak all readily there in the settings and panel option areas without having to install any plugins.
 
Hey,

The skin in my screenshot is actually the built in one under the 2nd "Dark" skin section and it's called "Burnt Orange" :)
 
Fortunately, not having used that view, I've never seen that Mediamonkey bug! Glad you found something more suitable!

Might give Musicbee another go as it looks pretty good. I mostly use MM for transcoding my FLACs on the fly when syncing with my phone. Hopefully MB has this covered! Might ditch Foobar too if it's good enough!
 
It has built in FLAC encode support support but I have not checked the other formats although options are there. Does your phone not support FLAC??

MB supports MTP devices as well which I thought was neat.

Having now used the MB Android app, it does the job but is a bit basic, you can't browse the playlist grouped, it's all one big list which is a bit tedious but for controlling active playback or queued playbck it is fine.
 
My phone supports FLAC but they take up too much space in comparison to high bit rate mp3/ogg files - I've only got 16gb internal with no expansion sadly (HTC One S).

Just had a sneaky Google, looks like it has very similar options for syncing to portable players. In fact, it does just look like a more polished Mediamonkey
 
Ah of course, forgot about storage. My Micro SD card in the phone has 24GB free and I can see that being filled quickly the more FLAC albums I put onto it. 128GB cards need to come faster :D

Yeah it is more polished and with more options inside the settings and panel pages :)
 
Looks like a great player but FAR too many options for my liking and too much time/faff required to set it up :p :o

Quite like winamp for the minimal setup/UI I am currently using (same as what you were using mrk :p)

Have a very small music collection so I just dump everything into a playlist and can find any track in a minute :p
 
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I have to agree with Nexus on the setting up... But then it's very flexible.

However, it's struggling with the basic task of ripping a CD. I think it may just be the one CD though, so not giving up on it yet...

EDIT: Turns out it was just the one CD! Which also doesn't rip on Foobar so I know it's all good. I think once I've spent some time with it, I'll like it a bit more. Next challenge is to sync my phone...
 
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There are a lot of options but the time taken to get it like above has been far less than what I attempted in foobar for example purely because everything is readily there just waiting to be changed - Alternatively 90% of the look is out of the box anyway, just set the correct columns and group by artist album, enable album art and apply the built in skin. Job done :)

WinAmp was great but nowhere near as organised in terms of grouping music.

The player is much bigger than how I had WinAmp but then again it's small on my 1440P monitor.
 
considering i've never seen musicbee before, it's spooky how similar one of those artwork panels is to something i made for foobar2000. :p

foo2k.png
 
i don't do dark themes. foobar uses the windows default controls for things like tabs and scrollbars. these look terrible in a dark theme and the only workaround is to change your windows theme to something dark but these are generally terrible and make windows unusable.

some components will allow you to hide scollbars and you can create buttons to replace tabs but it's too much effort for me (as you can see, i like tabs). so rather than fight it, i embrace the grey-ness of my windows theme. :o
 
Couldn't get on with MusicBee, Too much bother to tweak the GUI to get it how I want it (this is why I don't like Foobar), Went back to Winamp, Better the Devil you Know!!..

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Plus as I said earlier, I have a Pro licence from v1.9 (only cost about £7quid way back in the early 2000's)

And as I've already sorted/tagged all my 110Gb (17,300tracks) of music and tagged them nicely, I'm happy with using Winamp! :)
 
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