Just looks perfectly fine to me, and customizable to the right degree: just select whatever fields you want to display as a column. Apart from the obvious track list with some detailed info, the main view supports showing album covers only, or a per-album view. The middle (main) column is tabbed, so you can have multiple views, with multiple search results or playlists loaded. So what more is there? Well, apart from the fact that you might want to turn off the track browser at the top, the alternative tree view of the quick finder makes way more sense: it presents you with a folder tree starting from either artist, album, composer or genre. At first it didn’t really make sense to me: there’s a quick search box at the top already, there’s a three-column track browser just below, and when you type in the Quick Finder on the left, the main panel adjusts the songs displayed instantly, just like the quick search box does.
So what’s in all these panes? Left column, all the sources for your music: library, playlists, web sources and just a file explorer.
But that’s something that only makes me more interested. The main window that’s presented afterwards looks iTunesy, but a little more crowded. Initial scanning of some 20GB of MP3/FLAC/WAV music (2347 songs) took no more than 80 seconds. Kudos here, although I don’t use either of them (I’m a loyal foobar2000 user since 2002). User Interface – iTunes with more… much moreįirst thing we see upon start: the ability to import music from both Windows Media Player and iTunes. Lot of stuff to go in there, but hell, this manager manages. MusicBee is an attempt to provide one with a full-featured playing, tagging, organizing, ripping and synchronizing (e.g. However, as it is the kind of software you’ll use to great extent, it is particularly in this area where you will be most critical towards comfort of use and the availability of features and customizability. Large numbers of these, both commercial and free (open-source) have been around ever since the introduction of portable audio formats such as MP3. Music managers, not exactly a “niche of software” that is badly represented.
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