Renaming a file is as simple as hitting F2 on your keyboard. Well it is all good unless you have ten or twenty or more files to rename.
Short for Peter’s Flexible RenAmiNg Kit, PFrank is a bulk file/folder renaming program that lets you can easily organize your music, picture, video, or any other [...]
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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. [...]
Are you on Twitter? If not, well, then this song is for you! If you are, then do follow me
Ben Walker came up with this beautiful song. Take your pick below.
Twitter song links
The original song post on the 50/90 site
Download the MP3
The French translation of the song
The Twitter song video (640×480 MOV)
The lyrics [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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Have ever converted an audio-tape to digital format? If you are doing so, the normal way is recording via the Line-In. The recorded audio is a single long file.
You could use a high-end complex graphical tool to split this mp3 or you can use
MP3 Splitter.
MP3 Splitter is an MP3 audio editing utility that is used [...]
Midi files have a variety of uses. You can play them on your computer, your cellphone and your synthesizer. Unfortunately, you still can’t play them on your music player.
What if you’re a musician and have created that beautiful piece and saved it in midi. How, do you spread it to people who prefer using a [...]
Playlists are simply the best thing that happened to music playback. You can queue and choose exactly which order you want to play your songs and save this list for future use. Playlists IMO are almost a must when playing music on your iPod or music player when you have your music all neatly organized [...]
