MediaMonkey

I am updating my previous review in which I originally harped on MediaMonkey for my inability to remove the Cast option and for the inability to register a new account on its forum. It is difficult, however, to - in good conscience - leave a low rating or bad review despite its minor flaws, BECAUSE it REALLY is THAT GOOD. Of ALL the video libraries and players I have tried, MediaMonkey does MORE - and does it better. While it is not perfect, 1. There is no other player or library organizer that comes close to its capabilities for both PLAYING and ORGANIZING music and video regardless of whether you have 20 files or 20,000 files; 2. There's a reason it is the most popular option; 3. Once you try it, it is doubtful anything else will do. It is sleek; streamlined; (mostly) easy-to-use; highly customizable in regard to individual needs and uses; appropriately customizable in terms of layout options; somewhat customizable in appearance/colors; excellent at handling almost every audio and video file format you can throw at it. It can find and DOWNLOAD files from your local device, a network device, from a disk and even the internet... and YES, there's MORE: It can sync your audio, video, podcast and audiobook files to and from your Android or iPhone, VIRTUALLY** eliminating the need for that old, outdated, bloated, ridiculous iTunes! **Note that I said "virtually". Unfortunately, MediaMonkey does not have the capability to store or manage photos. If it did, MediaMonkey would undeniably make BANK! $$$ (A program named iMazing, which I will also review, is leagues better than iTunes, but costs ~$49.99/year. If MediaMonkey got in the 'photo-syncing-game' without raising its price for MediaMonkey Gold edition, EVERYONE would drop iTunes and other such software like a hot potato. Speaking of prices, MediaMonkey standard is FREE and does practically all a basic user needs it to. MediaMonkey Gold is their paid version, and those who know me from my other reviews will know I am pretty frugal and would not say this unless I mean it: it is WORTH what it costs (currently $39 lifetime license I THINK). Also note please, that I am in no way associated with MediaMonkey except that I have been a user for over EIGHT years. In closing, as they say that a picture speaks louder than words, I am including images of my MediaMonkey Library. It's beautiful, isn't it?