Screw those guys who said iTunes is the best music library manager out there. MediaMonkey is very much renowned for being the best media manager available today. This one’s for you music lovers!!

A lot of people have strongly rated MediaMonkey as the best music manager out there and its been downloaded nearly 3 million times on Download.com. Its got all the features that you’d expect to find in such softwares, but it is the advanced feature set that puts it light years ahead of the competition..

Here are some of the features of MediaMonkey

• Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface.
• Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata.
• Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down.
• Manage all genres of audio: Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, Comedy, Podcasts, etc.

• Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume.
• Record CDs and convert MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WMA files etc. into other formats.
• Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party.
• Sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

MediaMonkey has tons of options for all of the power users out there who have to have things their own way! You can configure everything from dozens of keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys, plug-ins, automatic podcast downloading, CD ripping, and lots more…. As a power user you can’t be asking for more!!

Here are some screenshots of MediaMonkey in action..

Here are some of the stuff you are gonna miss out on, if you don’t upgrade to the Gold Version..

• File Monitor automatically updates your Library to reflect changes on your hard drive.
• Auto-conversion converts tracks on the fly as they are synced so that all of your tracks can play on your iPod or other device.
• Advanced Auto-Playlists quickly generate a mix to suit your mood. Specify the criteria, and the mix is created.
• Sleep Timer gradually fades your music over a set period of time, and optionally turns off your PC before bedtime.
• Virtual CD catalogs your CD’s without creating duplicate entries for tracks that exist on both your hard drive and CD’s.
• Burn CD’s and DVD’s at full speed.

“If you’ve been looking for a free program that can be a kind of one-stop-shop of audio, doing everything that you might possibly want to do with your library of audio files (and doing it well) – MediaMonkey just might be that program.”

Nothing beats MediaMonkey when it comes music management, not even iTunes..

The Giveaway

Well during the birthday celebrations of DailyApps we have 10 Gold Licenses (Valued at 19.95$ each) of MediaMonkey to giveaway to you guys. All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address so that we can get in touch with you later.

We will be selecting the winners randomly using a random number generator. Here’s how we are going to give out the licenses for the giveaway of xplorer².

• 2 Winner will be picked from Comment Number 1 through 5
• 4 Winners will be picked from Comment Number 6 through 20
• 4 Winners will be picked from Comment Numbers 20 through how many ever comments are there.

You can leave your entries till 28th July 11:00 PM Eastern Time…

For Mac OS X

• Synergy

This program puts iTunes in the menu bar for easy access to controls such as fast-forward, skip, and play. People who listen to iTunes while they work on other projects will appreciate this simple utility. In addition to easy access via the menu bar, it offers the ability to set system-wide hot keys to make track adjustments and raise and lower a song’s rating and volume.

• iTunify

Manage your iTunes library like a pro. It has everything that iTunes should have had but it doesn’t have. a must have addon for iTunes.

• Fetch Art for iTunes

Fetch Art for iTunes is a small program that will fetch album art for one or more songs using Amazon’s XML interface, help you preview the art that was found, and add the art you want to iTunes.

• TheFilter

Provides the best music recommendations for iTunes. Discover music that you like and you’ve never heard before..

• iPodRip

iPodRip is the definitive iPod companion application. iPodRip allows you to get the most out of your iPod — you can transfer music from your iPod back to your iTunes Library, listen to music directly on your iPod (allowing you to save valuable disk space) — plus much more. iPodRip supports all iPod Media Types — MP3, AAC, Protected AAC or Audible.com Content.

• RadioLover

With RadioLover you can record internet radio streams as individual MP3 songs, schedule recordings of your favourite daily or weekly shows, record multiple radio streams at the same time, and organize recordings by song, time or size.

• VolumeLogic

Volume Logic is a sound enhancer that improves the sound quality of your iTunes music playback. Volume Logic offers a range of presets for different types of music, as well as a bass boost adjustment.

• CoverSutra

CoverSutra gives you a handy and attractive way to control iTunes without having to leave your current application.See what’s currently playing or enjoy your album artwork. Don’t let yourself be distracted from your work…

For Windows/PC

• VolumeLogic

Volume Logic is a sound enhancer that improves the sound quality of your iTunes music playback. Volume Logic offers a range of presets for different types of music, as well as a bass boost adjustment.

• TheFilter

Provides the best music recommendations for iTunes. Discover music that you like and you’ve never heard before..

• EvilLyrics

EvilLyrics is a very useful application that will find lyrics to the currently played song and displays it in tiny window.

• FoxyTunes

This application simply places a small audio control panel at the bottom of your Firefox browser, letting you perform actions such as playing a song, rewinding, and adjusting the volume without accessing the iTunes. It works for Winamp,Windows Media player too..

• EyeJamz

EyeJamz for iTunes adds an exciting visual dimension that greatly enhances the enjoyment and the usefulness of your iPod and iTunes. You can easily get free Album cover art, load Album Cover Art to your iPod and display them while your iPod plays your favorite music on the move.

• iScrobbler

iScrobbler is a plug in for iTunes. It submits your currently playing track to Audioscrobbler(Last.fm), a site where you can share your dubious music taste with the world.

• G-Force

G-Force is the most dynamic and sophisticated, yet entirely artistic, music visualization available today for iTunes, and it keeps getting better.Some of the features include, millions of visual effects and the ability to add your own visual effects.

So this is it. Download these addons today, and make your music experience much better than it was ever before..

Google is in final stages of building an alternative to iTunes which willl be called gBox. The program, which will be quite different from the model that iTunes follows now. gBox will get referrals through ads Universal will buy through search leader Google. Google will set standard advertising fees rather than a cut of sales. The ads, which will appear when a user searches for specific details, such as the name of an artist,and then the user will be redirected to gBox.

Songs at gBox will cost 99 cents each. For the Universal songs , gBox will offer an MP3 version free of anti-copy technology known as digital-rights management, or DRM. A DRM enabled version will also be available at the same price at gBox.

Right now gBox is still under testing so it will be sometime before gBox becomes a viable alternative to Apple’s flagship iTunes store.

Via Forbes