User Reviews and Votes for musikCube

Submitted by Ramon Lois on 26-Oct-2004 03:34:47

Summary: Quickly Developing to be Incredible Player

Details: I really think this player has a lot of potential. It is increasing in features every few days by a lot and is pretty stable for a devel version. I really love the UI, but I think it could have a "mini" version also. The current CVS version already supports the IPOD and other media players. The best part is that it stores music data in a db keeping it fast and has powerful dynamic playlist support.

Pros: Dynamic Playlists, Ratings, Search, iPod support, Clean UI

Cons: No Mini Interface, CDDB support needs improvement, no iPod syncing yet

Period used: 1 1/2 months

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media, Real, Quicktime, Itunes, XMMS,

Submitted by Rajiv on 06-Jan-2005 20:19:07

Summary: Clean, simple media player

Details: foobar is the stereotypical simple media player. But to set it up you generally have to go through a long, complex process of getting all the necessary plugins. musikCube has all that's needed right out of the box. Best of all, it has a freakin' awesome interface. Windows'! I love it.

Pros: VERY clean user interface, low memory usage

Cons: Not widely used so plugin support is poor

Period used: A few months

Other products used: Winamp 5, iTunes, WMP9, WMP10, J. River Media Center, QCD3

Submitted by Corbin on 17-Apr-2005 00:50:35

Details: Great for organizing and maintaining huge libraries of music.

Submitted by Colby on 08-Jan-2005 21:21:42

Summary: great app to keep track of all music on your comp.

Details: I use musikCube for the powerful database function. I can create dynamic playlists and search through all my mp3s, oggs, and FLACs. As an audiophile, I'm more appreciative of the newly added FLAC support and the ability to listen to my music in lossless quality. CD Ripping support is a definite plus too.

Pros: Very powerful program with little resource usage. Pretty stable app.

Cons: no SHN (shorten lossless format) support

Other products used: Winamp5, Sonique, iTunes, WMP, Real, QT

Submitted by Mondo on 08-Jan-2005 22:10:52

Submitted by Jackson Nicolas on 09-Jan-2005 00:35:48

Summary: AWESOME PROGRAM

Details: This has to be the single best program I have ever used (yes better than winamp). This program makes winamp look like a pile of trash. I love your new ripping ability and how you can edit the artists individually for each track as well as applying the same artist to all of the tracks. That feature helps a lot with burned discs. Sound is great. Another thing I find great is the small size of the program. With my browser consuming over 100,000 kbs of my memory and 70% of my cpu this fits nicely in the little memory I have left. There is so many features of this program I am failing to mention. You just have to see it for yourself if you haven't downloaded it. The equalizers 16 bands is extremely impressive (there is a 6 band option too). I almost forgot to mention this program's ability to organize your music. This programs ability to organize your music is unbelievable and it does not go laggy on you like winamp after 20 gbs of music is put in winamp's music storage. All and all this is my favorite program hands down. If you are skeptical about it just try it and you will see I was not kidding.

Pros: too many to list. however i do love the response time by the developer to problems.

Cons: none for me

Period used: Month

Other products used: Winamp, Itunes, RealOne, WMP10, Sonique

Submitted by Michael Dake on 09-Jan-2005 13:43:22

Summary: Well done

Details: Excellent player.

Pros: little resource usage and stable for a beta program

Cons: none

Period used: 1 week

Other products used: WMP, ITunes, Winamp

Submitted by 1337avenger on 09-Jan-2005 18:59:41

Summary: Rocks the house

Details: Better than my previous player (iTunes) in terms of quality, speed, and especially size. On average, musikCube uses 20% of the RAM required to run iTunes. Continued updates and support could make musikCube more popular than winamp.

Pros: Good interface, very stable, uses little system resources

Cons: Not full completed yet

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: winamp, WMP 9/10, iTunes, VLC, Real, Quicktime

Submitted by Wang Ninja on 09-Jan-2005 19:05:20

Summary: Awesome

Details: Really cool player that takes up minimal memory space.

Submitted by Ryan on 09-Jan-2005 19:16:31

Submitted by lordvalrole on 09-Jan-2005 20:32:26

Details: This is a multiplatform player with a library, to organize your music. has an integrated SQL database, and you can create dynamic playlist using querys. And excellent player.

Pros: Has a Library with a bundled db. custom icons, ID3 standard, dynamic playlist with querys.

Cons: equalizer it's hard to config,

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: Winamp, foobar2000, sonique, QCD, MediaMonkey, WMP, Musik

Submitted by Frisley Velasquez on 12-Jan-2005 16:07:13

Pros: clean + structured interface, no gimmicks

Cons: still in early development

Period used: 2 weeks

Other products used: winamp, itunes, foobar

Submitted by Martin Dittus on 12-Jan-2005 20:02:07

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: Winamp, Foobar2000, iTunes, Zinf, wxMusik

Submitted by TBlack on 13-Jan-2005 07:23:20

Submitted by cotam on 14-Jan-2005 12:57:35

Summary: Very good mp3 player

Details: Player has excellent database making managing your music collections very simple.

Pros: fast, great coding

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: winamp

Submitted by Sven Van Bouchout on 15-Jan-2005 04:15:42

Summary: Great application

Details: Easy to use program with lots of great features to help sort out your media library.

Pros: Open source, good interface, great features, light on resources, yet to crash

Cons: Not many formats supported (yet)

Period used: Over a month

Other products used: Winamp 2/3/5, WMP10, Foobar, Sonique, Quintessential

Submitted by folio on 15-Jan-2005 05:18:21

Summary: great, small, fast

Details: a visual cross between foobar2000 and iTunes, though it errs on the side of iTunes by way of features (being lack thereof). the program is at it's best in managing a large library of songs, which can be sorted and refined using its various columns by artist, genre, album, or quick search. the program is also in active development, meaning that new features will be added accordingly.

Pros: fast, great library management, minimal interface

Cons: lacks more extensive features (proper id3v2 support, portable music transfer, etc.)

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: winamp, wmp, itunes

Submitted by Dave H on 15-Jan-2005 10:46:08

Submitted by Acid on 15-Jan-2005 16:38:20

Details: Very low on resources and is quite easy to manage huge mp3 & ogg libraries.

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: foobar2000, winamp, wxMusik, apollo

Submitted by Jonas on 16-Jan-2005 14:48:36

Pros: minimal system resource usage

Cons: Very minimalist, so no variety of color customization

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: WMplayer, Zoomplayer

Submitted by Albert on 17-Jan-2005 21:14:27

Submitted by Milan on 18-Jan-2005 11:03:05

Summary: Excellent player...

Details: This is just a fantastic music player. It has a simple, sleek interface but manages to be extremely useful. This one's simply a joy to use. Highly recommended.

Submitted by Eric on 18-Jan-2005 20:00:35

Summary: Free, fast developing...

Details: musikCube is not really a media player, in case it's a music catalogizer, but a very good one!

Pros: Fast, free, fast developing

Cons: .MP3 tagging is a bit weird sometimes

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: Media Player Classic, xmPlay

Submitted by Gorman on 19-Jan-2005 16:01:46

Summary: Great media collection manager and player

Details: -Dynamic playlists (using SQL-like queries) -Manage a big music collection easily

Pros: Manage a big music collection easily

Cons: 0.91 version still has a few bugs here and there

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes

Submitted by Rat on 23-Jan-2005 09:58:06

Submitted by Fre on 25-Jan-2005 09:23:18

Summary: Fantastic Player/Organiser

Details: This Player has an intuative interface, and does a great job in organising music, and has a VERY low footprint on memory unlike iTunes

Pros: Intuative, Organisation

Cons: Look needs updating

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: iTunes, Winamp

Submitted by David on 08-Sep-2004 18:38:28

Submitted by frederik on 25-Jan-2005 16:12:32

Pros: Open Source. Very active community. Fast.

Cons: Rather new, but quickly improving.

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch, realplayer, wmp,

Submitted by Albert on 29-Jan-2005 14:30:30

Summary: my favorite

Details: Please ignore my last voting. I thougth rating 1 would be best. Shame on me. musikCube is a great player.

Pros: Open Source. Very active community. Fast.

Cons: Rather new, but quickly improving.

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch, realplayer, wmp,

Submitted by Albert on 29-Jan-2005 14:30:30

Submitted by Rat on 30-Jan-2005 16:39:42

Submitted by Nik on 09-Feb-2005 13:04:05

Summary: Best music player/organizer/everything music related I have ever used! Small, not bloated, but all the features you need. Cool new plugin system.

Details: Simply the best music related program in existence and is constantly being updated and developed and he just made a plugin system so users dont even have to rely on the developer to make advancements even though he does all the time.

Pros: Lightweight, but manages to included all necessary features.

Cons: None. Seriously there is nothing wrong and if something was it is updated all the time so musikCube would be fixed instantly

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: musikCube, winamp, window media player

Submitted by Jeanna on 20-Feb-2005 21:48:45

Period used: Few months

Other products used: Winamp, WMP, Real, MusicMatch, Napster, MediaMonkey, Quicktime, iTunes, Dell Media Experience...........

Submitted by Rajiv on 06-Jan-2005 20:19:07

Summary: Overall a great player!

Details: Taking the best from the iTunes interface, MusikCube adds to this with a "now playing" view and separate views for music on each drive as well as a combined music library you can add to at will. Taking up a small amount of memory (2Mb when playing!) MusikCube can be set to minimise to tray with controls being easily acessable with a right click. Lightweight and fast this is one music player you wont mind leaving running in the background. Vibrant developer community with regular releases and a fully fleged plugin system makes this one of the best music players around.

Pros: fast, small memory footprint, clutter free

Cons: beta version

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: musicmatch, winamp, foobar2000, zinf

Submitted by Joel Parsons on 22-Feb-2005 07:30:44

Summary: Awesome. What else can I say?

Details: Awesome

Pros: Awesome...

Cons: none

Period used: 1 week

Other products used: 90% of them

Submitted by converted on 22-Feb-2005 09:58:36

Details: Great player and very intuative

Submitted by neogguy on 22-Feb-2005 12:07:18

Pros: Great, beautiful, simple gui, responsive developers, great growing community

Cons: Not too many plugins written yet

Period used: still using it, IT KICKS ASS

Other products used: foobar2000, winamp, musicmatch, media player classic, windows media player (9&10)

Submitted by Malnilion on 25-Feb-2005 07:56:10

Summary: It's easy use and a lot more cohersive

Pros: Open Source

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media PLayer

Submitted by William on 26-Feb-2005 18:12:35

Submitted by mike on 27-Feb-2005 06:16:35

Summary: Exciting new player for audiophiles with big collections.

Details: SQL database archive for fast searching of music, memory requirements low, plugin framework, sleek minimal design, open source.

Pros: Unique, fast, easy, easy on memory

Cons: Still in beta

Period used: ~2 months

Other products used: Winamp, WMP, MusicMatch.

Submitted by Casey Swains on 15-Nov-2004 17:55:20

Submitted by Tobias on 04-Mar-2005 11:32:27

Summary: Awesome player.

Details: Awesome player.

Submitted by blarg on 05-Mar-2005 12:46:49

Summary: Very good, new, up and coming

Details: Sort of like Itunes meets foobar, without the clunky-ness of wxmusic.

Pros: nice, foobar like interface

Cons: limited audio support right now

Period used: 15

Other products used: winamp, foobar, jriver, sonique, wmp, real, itunes, qcd, wxmusic, core media, musicmonkey, musicmatch, xmplay

Submitted by Sean Robinson on 09-Mar-2005 11:52:03

Summary: best ever!

Details: I used to have mediamonkey, but didn't like the bloatness, above all, but I liked the interface. Then a friend introduced me to MusikCube and I'm in heaven. It's all mediamonkey is without the bloated interface and a couple bugs that irritated a lot. Please support this one! :)

Pros: clean, light, good easy interface

Cons: lacks easy bulk tagging

Period used: from february/2005 to now.

Other products used: mediamonkey, itunes, winamp and Quintessencial

Submitted by Laura on 15-Oct-2004 12:55:40

Submitted by marc on 14-Mar-2005 15:10:21

Submitted by Aidan McQuay on 15-Mar-2005 15:35:52

Details: Great player! Extremely light and non-bloated. It has all that I need, exept a miniplayer when minimized.

Pros: Light, lots of features. Beautiful crossfading. Batch-tagging.

Cons: Lacks a miniplayer.

Period used: 2 months.

Other products used: WMP,Winamp, Sonique.

Submitted by Dontomaso on 16-Mar-2005 22:52:31

Submitted by Adam on 17-Mar-2005 11:39:36

Summary: Excellent player.

Details: Everything I have every wanted and a good community to go with it.

Pros: all of it...

Cons: none

Submitted by userdoom on 17-Mar-2005 12:12:59

Summary: fine player and ripper

Details: musikCube is easy to understand, has a good gui with no unnecessary gadgets. and a enclosed ripper makes him to my favourite and only mp3 player and organizer.

Period used: since three weeks - daily

Other products used: iTunes, MS Mediaplayer, Realplayer

Submitted by Robert on 20-Mar-2005 11:43:53

Summary: Really good player, but you have to spend some time to get used to it because a lot of the features are right click accessible and most people are used to buttons. However there are plenty of buttons too.

Pros: Everything a person could want in a music player.

Cons: nothing really

Period used: 2 weeks

Other products used: the other players listed here

Submitted by Nine on 20-Mar-2005 14:11:39

Submitted by Rajiv on 06-Jan-2005 20:19:07

Summary: A solid no frills library/player

Details: This is a great player bridging the gap between the features and interfaces of bloated players like WMP and the have-it-your-way steep learning curve over-complication of an app like foobar2000. I think this app will rule them all.

Pros: Easy to configure, solid library management, nice interface

Cons: Not enough plug-in developers yet

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: WMP, Foobar, Monkey, iTunes, Musicmatch, WinAmp, Media Center,

Submitted by DK on 20-Mar-2005 17:01:14

Submitted by Alex on 20-Mar-2005 23:02:43

Summary: iTunes alternative

Submitted by Daniel on 18-Mar-2005 07:50:44

Summary: Great player

Pros: Great Player with lots of features; plugins coming soon; still in development!

Cons: still in development

Submitted by General Chack on 24-Mar-2005 11:11:46

Summary: An inobtrusive light player

Details: Sometimes as I found a skin for WinXP that I really liked, I proceeded to look for a music player skin that looked more or less consistent with the theme. It was sometimes easy, for example if you are using an Apple-inspired theme, but I often found out that I had to continue the search as none of the skins for Winamp or WMP had even a similar color arrangement. Also, the music players tend to eat up a lot of ram and try to be the center of the party, sometimes they won't even let you send them to the notification tray. On the other side of the boat, the less obtrusive players lack features that I consider important, such as a quick way to find the song you want in the moment or a way to edit the song's tags. Enter musikCube, a player that doesn't tries to impress you with eyecandy, but gives you all the features you need. Things such as finding a song is just matter of a click and start writing the name. The software finds what I want most times even before I finish writing. Other packed-in features are really useful, such as auto-capitalizing the songs (even the entire library if you desire), and removing extra-spacing. All of that with a memory consumption that is never more than 5 MB. I'm sold.

Pros: Feature complete, inobtrusive, light player

Cons: Lacks support to formats such as WMA

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: Winamp, MusicMatch Jukebox, wxMusik, jetAudio, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Media Monkey, Real Audio, Rhythmbox, XMMS

Submitted by Jeduan Cornejo on 26-Mar-2005 03:37:24

Summary: Musik cube is a really ease to use player for windows

Details: Musikcube is a really good player for someone who wants to digitalise his CD collection, the big advantage over eg windows media player, winamp or realplayer is that you keep a good overview and browse possibilities over the artists and cd's! (and of course is a nice advantage over the WMP, wimamp and realplayer is that it is 'opensource' (BSD licence) something really important in my eyes..

Pros: good player, opensource

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: winamp, windows media player, realplayer, mplayer, videolan, irfanview

Submitted by Bart De Wit on 29-Mar-2005 16:44:07

Summary: Simple, easy, light

Pros: Simple, easy, light

Cons: Editting tags could be made easier

Submitted by JJ on 30-Mar-2005 12:47:34

Submitted by Justin on 07-Apr-2005 13:35:36

Summary: Never need Winamp no more

Details: This player will win your heart instantly. Tired of Winamp's poor library, iTunes's high memory use? This is your player. Using less then 2mb of ram when minimized, but yet delivering a fast and easy-to-use library, this player has the best of two worlds. Linux version is on it's way.

Pros: Great for managing immense mp3-collections. Blazing-fast. Based on an SQl-Core for everything concerning the library. Plug-in and Format extensions support.

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes, WIndows Media Player, Amarok, XMMS

Submitted by Fre on 25-Jan-2005 09:23:18

Pros: Great library, small footprint

Period used: 4 months

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes; Foobar

Submitted by Marc Zon on 08-Apr-2005 16:56:01

Submitted by marc on 14-Mar-2005 15:10:21

Submitted by Andrew Koebbe on 14-Apr-2005 13:37:04

Summary: great player!

Pros: sql-db, open-source, clean ui, stable

Submitted by Cheko on 14-Apr-2005 16:02:20

Submitted by Anonymous on 11-Nov-2004 22:31:13

Submitted by FedericoX on 23-Apr-2005 20:01:14

Submitted by MuzikCube rocks ! on 25-Apr-2005 06:03:59

Submitted by chewbax on 28-Apr-2005 09:16:20

Submitted by Dave on 05-May-2005 15:53:35

Submitted by Casey Swains on 15-Nov-2004 17:55:20

Summary: Fantastic player for organising your music

Details: Great player to organise your music. Very clean UI, uses small resources. It has everything I need.

Pros: Small, stable, good UI

Cons: none

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: WMP 9/10, Winamp, Real, QT

Submitted by Gert-Paul on 20-May-2005 08:52:55

Summary: Great :)

Details: It would be lovely if FoxyTunes could support the awsome musicplayer and organizer, musikCube. Thanks :)

Period used: Don

Submitted by Pelle on 20-May-2005 17:28:39

Summary: Great :)

Details: It would be lovely if FoxyTunes could support the awsome musicplayer and organizer, musikCube. Thanks :)

Period used: Don't know

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Pelle on 20-May-2005 17:28:39

Summary: Quality music library that is continually improving

Pros: Great as a library, Conntinually updated

Cons: Lacking a few features (although they should be added at some point)

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: Winamp, Amarok, Foobar2000, WMP, etc.

Submitted by Bryce Leedham on 23-May-2005 01:47:24

Submitted by Wessel van Horzen on 26-May-2005 05:05:07

Summary: I've been looking for a way to ditch iTunes - this is it

Details: iTunes has an amazingly groovy interface. I use keywords in my comment fields to describe the song type. For example, rockin, groovy, funky, upbeat, mushy, melancholy, dark, hyper... you get the picture. I then have 'smart' playlists for each keyword. If you combine this with a rating system, it's easy to see why this is the best way to listen to a huge collection. Until now iTunes was the only app that gave me this functionality, but its memory footprint is huge and it isn't compatible with WMA, OGG and many other formats. MusikCube, since the appearance of the AAC plug-in, is my new champion.

Pros: Best I've found yet

Cons: I'm still getting the hang of it... interface not quite as good as itunes

Period used: 2 days

Other products used: iTunes Winamp5 Winamp3 foobar2000 Sonic

Submitted by Paul Rafferty on 06-Jun-2005 05:36:43

Submitted by magic on 07-Jun-2005 13:07:48

Summary: Oh, wow!

Details: This is THE music player for people with large collections on their computer. I have never been a fan of music libraries until I started using musikCube and it showed me how fast and nimble a full-featured music player could be.

Pros: Stable, fast and extremely small computer resource usage. Open source!

Cons: Still in development, so some features have yet to be released.

Period used: Two months

Other products used: WinAmp, dbPowerAmp, Sonique, Windows Media Player, Real Player, Cool Player, wxMusik, iTunes, MusicMatch, a few others

Submitted by Luke on 09-Jun-2005 15:20:04

Submitted by tansu on 11-Jun-2005 23:24:42

Summary: very good music library!!!

Submitted by MickM on 28-Jun-2005 12:30:40

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Submitted by Sean on 10-Jul-2005 23:29:00

Submitted by meven on 15-Jul-2005 08:56:16

Pros: easy music library managing with low memory footprint, fast search

Cons: still no freedb tagging

Other products used: foobar2k(also very good), musicmatch(7.5 was good, the new ones are too slow), winamp(good)

Submitted by goekhan on 19-Jul-2005 07:15:02

Summary: Clean and fresh..

Details: Easy to get to know, and best of all opensource..

Pros: easy to use

Cons: gui could be better.

Period used: a couple of albums..

Other products used: winamp, iTunes, Quintessential and last but best Foobar.

Submitted by Oskr Lindqvist on 05-Aug-2005 09:11:29

Summary: super-lightweight, brilliantly simple to use

Details: Tiny programme, uses barely any memory, incredibly easy to use, beautiful simple library interface. Really is perfect.

Pros: lightweight, easy to use

Cons: none

Period used: three months

Other products used: foobar2000, sonique, wmp, realplayer, mpc, winamp

Submitted by Dan100 on 07-Aug-2005 12:13:24

Submitted by adfdsfef on 11-Aug-2005 06:48:28

Submitted by Craig Sturgis on 17-Aug-2005 23:56:15

Submitted by ben on 18-Aug-2005 17:26:14

Summary: Fantastic Low Memory Player

Details: I have tried numerous other players, but keep coming back to this one. The sheer usability is amazing. It had seemed like Foobar might tie with this one, but this one always seems to outdo it in the end.

Pros: Small memory usage, powerful, very dynamic

Cons: Grahically challenged, not too many features

Period used: 8 months

Other products used: XMPlay, WinAmp, foobar2000, WMP

Submitted by Anonymous on 11-Nov-2004 22:31:13

Details: cool and small = tight!

Other products used: winamp, winmedia, a slew of small mp3 proggies and acid tools

Submitted by nathan on 31-Aug-2005 14:22:16

Summary: Small & Fast

Pros: Lightweight, small memory footprint, fades out volume on off and skip (easier on the ears!)

Cons: A bug where it plays it the same track again sometimes on random play.

Period used: Last couple of months

Other products used: WMP, Winamp, MusicMatch

Submitted by manc39 on 03-Sep-2005 17:11:57

Submitted by stian soli on 27-Sep-2005 06:13:19

Summary: musikCube is awesome

Details: musikCube is just awesome and because of this I have become really involved in the project. The software is incredible, and there is great community backing to it.

Pros: DB Backend!

Period used: 10+ months

Other products used: Windows Media, Winamp, Foobar, wxMusik, iTunes, and many more

Submitted by Rajiv Makhijani on 30-Sep-2005 20:20:52

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Submitted by sdfg on 03-Oct-2005 02:44:08

Submitted by Saq on 09-Oct-2005 08:50:27

Summary: superb!

Other products used: WinAmp

Submitted by sebastian on 09-Nov-2005 06:34:42