WinX MediaTrans vs MusicBee

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.

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.

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.

All supported iOS devices can be taken as a flash drive to save different files, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT etc.

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.

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.

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.

MusicBee can be skinned which can significantly change the appearance of a player.
To apply a skin, it must first be downloaded, moved to the appropriate folder, and after restarting MusicBee, it can be applied. A collection of skins can be found here. It's also possible to customize the layout by choosing which panels to display.

MusicBee can automatically identify songs based on their sound signature and use that information to pull metadata about the song (such as tags, artwork, and lyrics).

MusicBee offers a very straight-forward and easy-to-use interface.

Your media library is stored in a flat file rather than a traditional database, limiting its ability to manage truly massive collections of audio files, but offering far reduced processing overhead for small to medium-large collections.

A version of MusicBee can be used without having to be installed. It can be kept on an external device and run from that.

A collection of plugins can be found here. These plugins extend the uses of the app from iOS support, last.fm support, to streaming services support.

In addition to automatically pulling lyrics for songs, MusicBee can synchronise music playback with lyrics.

High-end audio cards can be easily used to their full potential without any additional software due to WASAPI and ASIO support.

MusicBee allows the user to subscribe to and auto-download podcasts.

MusicBee allows scrobbling with Last.fm.

Not only does it allow MiniLyrics to search for and add synchronized lyrics to your music files, but the MiniLyrics window can be docked in MusicBee over its own lyrics panel so you can edit them and see them displayed along with whatever you're playing.

Current file count exceeds 500,000+. Updates the library faster than other similar feature rich players whilst being fully capable of playback, id tag editing, even visualiser generation simultaneously, limited only by the power of your PC. If your experience is different you likely don't have a capable machine.

There are detailed instructions in the community forum describing how to create a suitable WINE prefix in which to install MusicBee with nearly all the features operating as they do in Windows. There is also support for Linux using CrossOver by CodeWeavers, who offer an automated installer to accomplish the same result on nearly all major Linux distributions as well as Google's ChromeOS.

Has media library support that can displays all available tags plus custom tags.

There is a plugin available that allows users to sync their iOS devices (including music ad podcasts).

It's possible to lock down access to settings while still having access to the player. This is great for parties, allowing guests to browse and play music without worrying if they will mess something up.

MusicBee tells you the time you are seeking to on mouseover on the seek bar.