
It has native support for Groove Music and last.fm, can auto-tag your library, rip CDs, and will even appease audiophiles who require WASAPI support. It can sync music to Android phones and other non-iOS devices, and convert tracks on-the-fly if they aren't compatible with your player. It even supports some Winamp plugins, so you don't have to give up those super-custom features you've come to rely on. It also has a very active skinning community, which means you can get it looking pretty snazzy without a lot of work. It has a familiar interface for iTunes converts, but you can move things around and customize the window to your liking, adding extra panes for lyrics, now playing, artist bios, and more. Think of MusicBee like a modern, lighter version of Winamp, without a lot of the cruft. Other players may excel more in certain areas, but MusicBee aims to please everyone. It does a lot of things well, and it does them all for free. MusicBee is the jack of all trades of the Windows music world.

MusicBee: The Do-Everything Player for Most People


Windows has more great music programs than you can shake a stick at, many of which are more powerful than iTunes anyway. Whatever your reasons for hating Apple's music player, you're in luck. Not only that, but year after year, it seems iTunes' interface gets worse and worse, confusing even the savviest of computer users. Launch it, and everything comes to a screeching halt as iTunes consumes all your resources to do the most basic of things: play some music.
