musikCube User reviews

By Eliot Van Buskirk, CNET.com on 31/05/2006

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The good:

  • Launches in a heartbeat
  • Consumes very few resources yet offers robust features for ripping, playing, organising, and synchronising unprotected music

The bad:

  • Doesn't support protected music purchased from online music stores
  • There's no video playback
  • Its Net radio feature is Windows only
  • No native podcast support

The bottomline:

musikCube is a fine, reliable, all-in-one jukebox program for Windows users who dislike DRM and bloated software.

Buying choices:

Editors' rating:

8/10

Users' rating:

9/10

Tags:

audio | free | jukebox | mp3 | music | musikcube

musicBringer
05/12/2006, 08:45 PM

rating
9/10

I luv it :O)

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17/10/2006, 04:21 PM

rating
10/10

Great Player.. Lightweight and smooth as silk

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pampanante
05/09/2006, 08:30 AM

rating
9/10

Only player you need...

Pros: musikCube supports mp3, ogg, wma, m4a, and any other format you can think of - it's just as full-featured as iTunes, but without all the fluff and the obsession with copyright protection.

Cons: Very few.

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Ross
19/08/2006, 07:54 AM

rating
8/10

Elegant simplicity with *MOST* features you need

I used musicmatch before this. It seems that every other major music player has an agenda nowadays OTHER than playing pusic. I don't want an online music store. I don't want to learn about services I can subscribe to. I want to play my music. I also want my music player to not eat all my system resources so that I can do other work while I play music

Pros: - small and lightweight
- most codec support already built in
- free
- doesn't use up 50mb+ of RAM when it runs
- doesn't crash your system
- doesn't install junk that runs every time you start windows

Cons: - no "super tagging" feature for auto lookup of id3 tags
- doesn't support funky graphical skins (could be a pro to some)

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