As its name implies, Helium Music Manager Network Edition allows you to manage your music library in an easy and fast way. The program can search your entire hard drive(s) and add all the music and sound files it finds into its library. It also sorts out the different files into up to 32 categories such as genre, artist, album, title, date and so on, according to their tags. It also lets you edit the tags assigned to each file according to your needs.
You can perform advanced searches according to different criteria, such as recording and release year, folder, and the aforementioned genre, artist, and so on. It is also possible to create playlists as well as to import and edit them.
The program also has other features. For example, it lets you rip and burn audio and data CDs and DVDs using an unlimited bitrate. Another function lets you split sound files. This is useful, for example if you recorded an entire vinyl LP without separating each track. It also lets you do the opposite, that is, to join different sound files into one. All in all, it is a good program full of features.
The main feature of the Network Edition is the possibility of having up to 5 persons using the program simultaneosly through a domestic or company network, as well as the possibility of remote-controlling the program through your iPod or iPhone.
If you want to check the program before purchasing it, there is a free version with less functions that you can download from the developer's site.
v9.2 [Jan 18, 2013]
- Searches are now highly optimized in speed
- Improved MTP device handling for Windows 7 and 8
- New and improved Last.fm handling which now supports displaying of which track you are currently listening to
- Duplicates are no longer added when the Auto-enqueue function is populating the Play queue
- If an album contains multiple release years and opened with the Tag Editor, the values will not be overwritten by default (until manually changed)
- It is now possible to save multiple ID3v2 artist tag-fields null separated which is usefull for compatibility with Sonos and other applications
- Multiple Vorbis artists tag-frames are automatically converted to Helium Music Manager multiple artists tag-frames
- It is now possible to save multiple artists as individual artists tag-fields for Vorbis tags
- The Twitter integration has been rewritten and improved
- Updated version of the encoders used for conversion/transcoding operations
- Corrections to duplicate finder
- Corrections when applying Music Browser data to tags
- Improvements and updates to the Discogs download plug-in
- Better status bar indication when saving tags in background
- Corrections to editing of File Rename Wizard templates
- Updated Hungarian translation
- Updated Polish language
- Current CD and Total CD fields are now available from the Audio splitter
- The spacebar will not pause playing music when searching within a list
- Improved exist check during action batches
- Hover texts in internal player for volume/position
- Discover artist Music Browser improvements and fixes
- Corrections to the popup menu for Recent searches in the Music Explorer
- Restructured Tag Editor settings
- New dynamic date arguments in advanced searches
- Edit artist information now updates sort order fields correctly
- Various corrections and improvements to the Music Browser start page
- Play counter values are now updated from the offline synchronization if selected
- Corrections to date encoding in the File Rename Wizard
- Corrections to the Music Analyser
- Toolbar corrections
- Corrections and improvements to Update album pictures tool
- Download support for custom fields
- Corrections to date/time encoding during tagging
- Corrections to editing of Publisher information
