Author: Scopique

My takeaway from trialing several desktop media players, and ultimately, which one I'm going to use.

I guess if you have media you need to play, AIMP will work, but it's one step above Windows Media Player and only just.

MusicBee is simple yet offers a decent array of tools for organizing your media library.

Looking at MediaMonkey, a powerful tool for managing very large media libraries, and a pretty good player to boot.

Helium is a clean looking media player seemingly geared towards file maintenance, but doesn't look to offer as many bells and whistles as some of the other players.

I'm test driving a bunch of desktop music players. In today's episode: Crates, a music player-slash-organizer that also lets you source plays from online services, all in one place.