Supporting the standards

We keep up-to-date

Helium Music Manager has a long history in the music management business. We always keep up-to-date with the latest standards when it comes to storing information about your music. We also keep our eyes and ears open for any information about new formats for storing music files.

You can rest assured that if tomorrow comes with a new music file standard, Helium Music Manager will be able to handle it too.

Helium Music Manager works with all the major file formats

Helium Music Manager supports browsing, editing and playing of the following file formats:

• MP3 (.MP2 and .MP3)
• MPEG Plus (.MPC and .MP+)
• WMA (.WMA)
• FLAC (.FLAC and .FLA)
• OGG Vorbis (.OGG)
• MPEG-4 (.M4A, .M4P, .MP4 and .M4B)
• Monkey's Audio (.APE)
• WAVE (.WAV and .WAVE)

For the more experienced user, we offer support for different tag types as follows:

• ID3v1 (for MP3 and MPEG Plus files)
• ID3v2 (for MP3 and MPEG Plus files)
• Lyrics3v2 (for MP3 and MPEG Plus files)
• WMA (for WMA files)
• Vorbis Comments (for FLAC and OGG Vorbis files)
• QuickTime (for MPEG-4 files)
• APEv2 (for MP3 and Monkey's Audio files)
• RIFF (for WAVE files)

More fields than you will ever need

Helium Music Manager supports more than 60 individual fields for storing of information. This is probably more than you will ever need and much more than the average music manager can handle.

Click here to see a list of all supported fields as well as a compatibility reference.