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Add to SafariWhen comparing MediaMonkey vs WinX MediaTrans, the Slant community recommends MediaMonkey for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to iTunes on Windows?” MediaMonkey is ranked 2nd while WinX MediaTrans is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose MediaMonkey is:
You can organize music by over 40 different criteria, including common criteria such as title, artist, and album, as well as items like track volume, lyricist, and parental rating. You can even use custom labels by which to organize and you can set how you want to prioritize the criteria. Media Monkey can also rename large batches of files based on set rules.
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Pros
Pro Exceptional cataloging options
You can organize music by over 40 different criteria, including common criteria such as title, artist, and album, as well as items like track volume, lyricist, and parental rating. You can even use custom labels by which to organize and you can set how you want to prioritize the criteria. Media Monkey can also rename large batches of files based on set rules.
Pro Helps remove duplicates from the library
MediaMonkey can find duplicate files and songs, helping the user to remove any unnecessary items from the library.
Pro Can pull metadata from the web
Pro Works with almost any UPnP or DLNA enabled media player
MediaMonkey can stream the library to most UPnP or DLNA enabled devices. This allows you to, for example, stream to your Blu-Ray player.
Pro Powerful file renaming system
Pro Advanced automatic auto-dj
MediaMonkey has a built-in auto-dj feature, appropriately called Party Mode, that can automatically play tracks based on set criteria.
Pro Can convert audio and video files
MediaMonkey can convert all common audio formats and some video formats. Supported files include .mp3, .ogg, .aac, and .flac.
Pro Supports most tagging formats
Pro Format agnostic
MediaMonkey supports everything from lossy MP3 files to lossless FLAC files.
Pro Has a decent companion Android app which can sync with / connect to PC server
Pro Can build smart playlists with automatic filters
For example:
- 4+ stars jazz songs
- Top played recent songs
- Best rated classic rock
- Unplayed recently added songs
- Build your own "smart" radio station, etc.
Pro Easy to use
WinX MediaTrans has an intuitive design with all features displayed on the interface in the form of icons. Users can easily learn how to get started with it. Only 2 steps, to select items > export, you can back up desired iOS files to PC. In turn, choose items from hard drive > add > sync and then you can get the content on your iOS devices for movable playback.
Pro Fast to transfer
No network needed, WinX MediaTrans completes sync mission via a USB cable which connects your iOS device and PC. Not affected by network condition or any other interruption, thousands of 4K and HD photos will be transferred to your PC within 1 minute.
Pro Automatic to transcode video
WinX MediaTrans is armed with a video transcoder helping change the video format from incompatible one to compatible MP4 (H.264) for iOS when adding a movie/video to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. The support of hardware acceleration greatly speeds up transcoding process so that you can quickly add a large video file to iOS devices at the shortest time.
Pro Turn iOS Devices as Flash Drive
All supported iOS devices can be taken as a flash drive to save different files, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT etc.
Pro Powerful to handle iTunes purchases
DRM-ed movies, music, and audio books purchased from iTunes Store can be exported as MP4/MP3 files with DRM-free, which can be played on any device (Android, Windows Mobile), players besides authorized Apple gadgets and iTunes.
Pro Intelligent to manage music
You can modify meta data of every music on your iOS devices, like title, artist, album, year and more. You are allowed to create a playlist with a name and add song in the same genre into the playlist. You can also delete unwanted songs, playlist from iOS devices permanently.
Pro Flexible & stable to sync
Selective syncing is allowed. You can pick one photo, multiple songs, all e-books and more and back up to PC. Every item you select will be intactly transferring to computer. No missing data and no quality loss.
Cons
Con Not really "multi-user" friendly
Example: If you have a family, not everyone has same tastes or star ratings. You CAN achieve a somewhat multi-user experience, but it's overly complex and clunky.
Con Really buggy at times
- Biggest annoyance: Often get database errors (data corruption?). Usually, you'll end up clicking "cancel" in some dumb cryptic error prompt and/or restart app.
- Android sync isn't a breeze.
- Multiple instances sometimes open up (due to unknown cause) can cause the corruption / database issues. You should backup often just in case.
Con Accuracy of automatically pulled meta data can be spotty
In cases where a song is a part of multiple albums, or there's a re-release with slight changes (such as track numbers, bonus songs, etc.), MediaMonkey can get confused and apply wrong titles to songs based on their track numbers. It then ends up mislabeling content that has already been labeled correctly. There's also no way to manually set what album to base the auto-tagging on in order to work around this.
Con Limited free version
The maximum number of items you can transfer for free is 30 per day. You can't access DRM removal feature unless upgrading to full feature.
