MediaMonkey

The Description of MediaMonkey

Site Editorial Commentary：A media player for serious collectors that syncs between your device and PC.

MediaMonkey is a lightweight yet powerful music player that empowers you to effortlessly manage and synchronize extensive music collections across all your devices. It's designed to be your all-in-one solution for music management on Android.

Key features:

❖ **Seamless Sync with MediaMonkey for Windows**
-> Keep your playlists, tracks, and videos perfectly synchronized between your Android device and your Windows PC.
-> Maintain consistency across file information, ratings, lyrics, play history, and more.

❖ **Intuitive UI for Comprehensive Media Management**
-> Effortlessly manage your Music, Classical music, audiobooks, podcasts, and Videos with a clean and user-friendly interface.
-> Navigate your library by Artist, Album, Composer, Genre, Playlist, and more.
-> Quickly search your entire library or discover related tracks.
-> Edit file information (e.g., Artist, Album, Composer, rating) with support for multiple attributes (e.g., Genre=Rock;Alternative).
-> Automatically lookup Album Art and Lyrics.
-> Efficiently edit multiple files simultaneously.

❖ **Powerful Playlist Management**
-> Create and manage hierarchical playlists to organize your music your way.
-> Easily add, remove, and re-order tracks within your playlists.
-> Seamlessly sync playlists with MediaMonkey for Windows.

❖ **Intuitive Player and Queue Manager**
-> Enjoy consistent audio levels with replay gain, eliminating the need for constant volume adjustments.
-> Fine-tune your audio with a 5-band equalizer.
-> Relax and unwind with the convenient sleep timer.
-> Share your listening history with third-party scrobblers (Simple Last.fm, Last.fm).
-> Cast your music to Google Chromecast or UPnP/DLNA devices ** †.
-> Bookmark your progress in large files like Audiobooks and videos.

❖ **Enhanced Features**
-> Android Auto support for in-car entertainment.
-> Access and download media from UPnP/DLNA servers **.
-> Player widgets for convenient control from your home screen or lock screen.
-> Set your favorite tracks as ringtones.
-> Easily share tracks with friends.
-> Customize the app's appearance with 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