MediaMonkey

Ventis Media, Inc.

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About this app

MediaMonkey is a lightweight yet powerful music player that lets you manage and keep large music collections in sync across your devices. Key features:

❖ Sync with MediaMonkey for Windows *
-> Keep playlists, tracks and videos in sync.
-> Keep file info, ratings, lyrics, play history, etc. in sync.

❖ Simple UI for managing Music, Classical music, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Video.
-> Navigate by Artist, Album, Composer, Genre, Playlist, etc.
-> Search entire library or find related tracks
-> Edit file info (e.g. Artist, Album, Composer, rating, etc.) with support for multiple attributes (e.g. Genre=Rock;Alternative).
-> Lookup Album Art and Lyrics.
-> Edit multiple files at once.

❖ Manage Playlists
-> Set up hierarchical playlists
-> Add/remove/re-order tracks
-> Sync playlists with MediaMonkey for Windows

❖ Intuitive player and queue manager
-> Play content at a steady volume (using replay gain) to avoid fidgeting with the volume
-> Tune audio with a 5-band equalizer
-> Relax with a Sleep timer
-> Share your play history with third-party scrobblers (Simple Last.fm, Last.fm)
-> Cast to Google chrome cast or UPnP/DLNA devices ** †
-> Bookmark large files (e.g. Audiobooks, videos)

❖ Android Auto support
❖ Access and download media from UPnP/DLNA servers **
❖ Player widgets for home screen or lock screen
❖ Set tracks as ringtones
❖ Share tracks
❖ Themes


* USB sync is unrestricted. Wi-Fi Sync is a time-limited trial--can be unlocked with MediaMonkey Pro.
** Time-limited trial--can be unlocked with MediaMonkey Pro. Note that MediaMonkey is Ad-free and as development is supported by sales of MediaMonkey Pro.


Privacy, Safety and Security Information
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Data Handling

Ventis Media, Inc. is committed to your privacy and to transparency in our data handling practices. This app doesn't collect, use, or share any of your data unless required for the functionality or service being provided.

The following explains our disclosures in the Google Play Store regarding data safety:
o Email address and device identifier is only 'collected' if you explicitly 'Submit a debug log' (encrypted in transit, deleted after 90 days) so that we can get in touch with you.
o Videos, Audio Files are only 'collected' and transmitted when you explicitly:
- Sync media content with MediaMonkey for Windows (files and file metadata are transmitted from MediaMonkey for Android to MediaMonkey for Windows--they are not shared with us).
- Cast media content to a Chromecast or UPnP Server (files and file metadata are streamed encrypted, from MediaMonkey for Android to your cast device--they are not shared with us).
- Give Android Auto access to MediaMonkey content (files and file metadata are shared encrypted, from MediaMonkey for Android to your Android Auto device--they are not shared with us).
- Enable 'scrobbling' to share play history with others (metadata of played files is shared through your scrobbling client with last.fm--the data is not shared with us).
o Media file metadata is only shared with 3rd parties if you enable track information to be looked up (file metadata [Artist, Album, Title] is shared with 3rd parties in order to look up additional related track information--the data is not shared with us).


Application Permissions Atypical of a Player

o CAMERA: To scan QR codes to get configuration data to facilitate connections to MediaMonkey Servers
o WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: To write to 'shared' media folders such as /Music or /Playlists
o WRITE_SETTINGS: To change some system settings (e.g. disable touch sounds, set up ringtones/alarms)
o REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES: To uninstall Last.fm (it can't be disabled)
o ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE, INTERNET: For Wi-Fi Sync, UPnP, Casting
o REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS, WAKE_LOCK: To prevent shutdown during extended operations (e.g. Sync)
o INSTALL_SHORTCUT: To install custom shortcuts to Playlists

Ratings and reviews

Doesn't support reading multiple entries for a tag (i.e. multiple genre tags on one file). Which is something the serious music collector prbly has. 9 years later and they still haven't gotten their app to recognize multiple tags (artist, genre, album). Additionally, this app doesn't recognize opus files, a free and open format that's been around for 13 years and replaced ogg vorbis.

8/26 Update - Even though I have another player I purchased upgraded for, this one still wins for a number of reasons. When I switched back to android and transferred my music, by giving me silence, I knew to delete/upload the iTunes and they played fine after. Album art update is fantastic! I have been trying to fix album art, and now it's as easy as it is on the desktop app. Thanks! -- Synching between desktop and phone is still a bit off in some ways. Still a great app.

Great overall. It truly has everything you need and no ads aside from an occasional paywall if you try to do certain things. I move everything over to my phone from MusicBee which comes with the artwork that looks great on my PC but when I play it on the Media Monkey app the artwork looks like trash. Is there a viable way to fix this? Might consider purchasing the premium app if this is a fixable issue.

What’s new

New & Improved:
More editable attributes
Android Auto: more attributes
Albums are editable
Per-track Album Art

UI:
-Metadata & Artwork lookup/editing
-Navigation by Year/Rating
-Album scrolling
-Performance

Playlists:
-Remove from Playlist
-Status may not update

Sync:
-Server management
-Fixes re. status, artwork, bi-di sync, duplicates
-Failed conversion halts sync
-Performance

UPnP:
-Server inaccessible
-Wrong play position
-Artwork optimization

Chromecast may pause
Stability fixes