Media Monkey Free version
Media Monkey is a commercial media player, however they have a free version that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. I expected it to be pretty bad since it is originally a commercial product, but It was still pretty decent.
The UI was just ok. It could be better, but I was still able to find most things pretty quickly. It allowed me to minimize to tray or to a mini player, two very usefull features.
Just like Musikcube the songs fade in and out for smooth transitions. Whenever a new song is played while in the minimized mode a small popup is shown to tell me the name of the song.
One of the better features of Media Monkey is that it has six modes for viewing the songs. I can quickly find songs I am looking for with the appropriate mode.
Media monkey also has quick ways to view podcasts and burn cd’s. I did not try either of these features so I am not sure how well they actually work.
Media Monkey by far uses to much system resources. It was hovering around 40k.
My Suggestions:
None, Its a commercial product of course the free version won’t be all that good.
My Rating: 5/10
Summary of Media Monkey:
- Good variety of viewing modes
- Easy to understand UI, but not very good looking
- Able to minimize to tray, or to a Minplayer mode.
- Good Song transitions
- System resource hog.