Quick Media Converter (QMC) is a universal video converter that was specifically designed to convert video formats to other video formats.
QMC comes with two modes, viz. easy and expert. Easy is a painless, few click conversion option if you don’t want to break your head too much with getting the video conversion done.
Expert mode is [...]
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Your music collection is growing and growing fast and after sometime you realize it is totally unmanageable. If you’re as particular at me, you’d like your music neatly tagged the files properly named and arranged, then this is one tool worth using.
MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. [...]
If there is one disease that I have, and it is my need for using different software for different purposes. This is especially true in the case of multimedia, i.e. audio and video players.
Currently I have several players installed or their portable versions stored on my laptop. These are my favorite five.
Media Player Classic
Media Player [...]
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
VLC media player comes with tonnes of features. The best feature is that you do not need to have [...]
Why pay for programs to burn CDs when you can get professional CD burning programs for free.
Ashampoo is currently offering v6.71 of their Ashampoo Burning Studio.
Ashampoo Burning Studio Free has all the features you need to take care of your regular burning tasks, including CD, DVD and Blu-Ray burning, multi-disc file backup, an integrated audio [...]
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This week on Multimedia Monday, we cover a rather small but handy tool.
Audio/Video to Exe converts audio/video files to other audio/video formats or selfplaying-executables.
The following formats can be converted into exe:
3gp, aac, ac3, aiff, asf, avi, exe, flac, flv, gif, m1v, m2v, m4v, mka, mkv, mov, mp2, mp3,
mp4, mpc, mpg, nut, ogg, ra, rm, swf, [...]
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When you’re talking media players, one name that always comes to mind is Winamp.
I’ve been using Winamp right from its 2.x versions which is to say from quite a few years and have always used it as my primary player when playing long playlists of music spread over a several day period.
Winamp has progressed from [...]
In breaking news, News.com reports that Microsoft has been ordered to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent for the technology used to power MP3 audio in Windows.
The figure has been set as per the number of PCs sold with Windows in 2003.
MP3 technology has been jointly built by Fraunhofer and Alcatel-Lucent. This court ruling against [...]
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mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files (e.g. to wav format) for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder [...]
