MusicViewer is a lightweight front-end program that can help you manage and organize your hard-drive based music collection. It gives you the power to sort, rate, filter, and play songs that reside on your hard drive or across a local network.

MusicViewer is currently only available for the Windows platform. It has been tested on Win XP, but should work on Win ME/98. MusicViewer currently works with MP3 and OGG files, but we expect to add other file formats in the future.

• MusicViewer is Free. No timed trials, no crippled features, no registration necessary, no spyware nor adware. MusicViewer is DonateWare – If you try it out and find it useful, we ask that you make a voluntary donation (of any denomination you can afford) to the Fumesoft crew to help support it’s development.
• View and play albums and/or songs by an artist easily, no matter how they are organized on your hard drive. It’s not uncommon to have a few individual songs by an artist on compilation soundtracks or that you’ve downloaded (legally, of course!) sitting in a different directory than the rest of the artist’s albums. MusicViewer lets you view and play all music by an artist easily, as if they were virtually all in the same place.
• Rate your songs and albums. Then filter your playlist based on rating and skip all of the songs you don’t really like! Furthermore, the auto-rating algorithm will create album, collection, and artist ratings from the song ratings automatically (you can also manually override them), so you can quickly find your favorites.
• Find underplayed music. If you’re a music enthusiast, you probably have so much music that you forget how good a lot of it is until you inadvertently stumble across it. Once you’ve rated your songs, MusicViewer can find the songs and albums that you’ve rated as your favorites but you haven’t played much and suggest them to you to be played.
• Define your own customized playlists. You can create an “80s” collection with all your favorite retro songs in it, a collection of songs that start with the letter “P”, or pretty much any other kind of collection you can dream up. You can export these collections as .M3U, so if you ever decide you don’t want to use MusicViewer any more, you won’t lose your work.
• Use your favorite media player. MusicViewer doesn’t contain it’s own internal player – rather, it calls your user-configurable media player (eg. WinAmp) to do the playing. This allows you the most flexibility possible.
• Work across a local network. MusicViewer can be configured to play songs across a network, allowing you to work from the same database even on different machines.
• Minimizes to a tray icon and doesn’t hog CPU time.MusicViewer is meant to be left running in the background while you do something else. Consequently, it minimizes to the system tray so as not to clutter your task bar. It also utilizes minimal CPU time when idling, so you can still do things like play World of Warcraft without added CPU-induced lag.
• Integrated Tag Editor. MusicViewer lets you view and edit the tags of your files.

Here at Fumesoft, we believe in honesty. There are a few things that MusicViewer does not do (yet), and we feel that you should know about them so you can make an informed decision about whether MusicViewer is right for you.

• MusicViewer is not available for any platform other than Windows. Becauase the grid code it uses extensively is currently Windows only, odds are it will not be ported anytime soon.
• MusicViewer only handles MP3 and OGG files currently. We intend to add support for other formats in future versions, but it's not here yet.
• MusicViewer is not capable of synching with your IPOD.