Ajay on October 27th, 2008

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. [...]

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Ajay on September 29th, 2008

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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Ajay on April 2nd, 2007

I’m very picky about how I play my music and videos and have several different media players installed that fulfil different purposes.
One such player is jetAudio Basic which is my primary player for playing folders or playlists.

jetAudio comes in a free Basic version and a paid Plus version. Plus adds the mp3/mp3PRO conversion support, recording [...]

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Ajay on March 26th, 2007

WavePad is a FREE audio editing software with features of several expensive sound editing software.
It lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction among others.

Features

Supports a number of file formats including wav [...]

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Ajay on March 5th, 2007

SimpleCenter is a Windows software package that works with a variety of devices, including the Sony PSP, the Nokia N80 and N93 smart phones, and most USB mass storage and Plays For Sure devices. Currently it supports the iPOD, PSP, Nokia N80 and N93 with support for N95 in the near future.

SimpleCenter is available in [...]

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Ajay on January 15th, 2007

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 [...]

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Ajay on January 12th, 2007

In the age of mergers and acquisitions, an unlike partnership has taken place.
Napster has teamed up with AOL and will now power the music service AOL Music.
The music service has been in operation since 2005 after AOL’s acquistion of MusicNow. The estimated timeframe in which all subscribers will be shifted over to Napster is [...]

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Ajay on January 1st, 2007

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 [...]

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Ajay on December 23rd, 2006

When my Dad was down this time, he brought along his iPod Nano. I already have an iPod 30Gb and so didn’t want to use his iPod Nano with iTunes. I searched around for some software that would let me manage the iPod.
I stumbled upon EphPod, which is an iPod managing application for Windows.

Their summary [...]

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Ajay on December 11th, 2006

Do you have an extensive music collection? And are you fed up of adjusting the volume of your player everytime the track changes?
MP3s with different volume levels is a common problem. This problem stems from the fact that tracks in Audio CDs themselves have different volumes. Albums have an average volume with the tracks [...]

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