Everton from Connected Internet posted a nice article where he is detailing his steps to add tags and cover artwork to his mp3 collection using a few selected freeware programs and iTunes. He suggests to use Picard for the tagging process because Picard is able to add most tags of known albums automatically.

The only information that are not added by Picard are the cover artwork and the genre. It is understandable that the genre is not being added because it is sometimes difficulty to select a genre that everyone would be comfortable with. Itunes will be used to add the cover artwork right from the iTunes store.

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Yesterday I introduced the relatively new music community Soundpedia that has an excellent selection of artists, albums and songs available that can be listened to using the build in flash player. There is no obvious way to download the music right from the website but there is an option that I would like to explain.

Before I start I would like to point out that the quality of the mp3 audio files from Soundpedia is not that great. The mp3’s seem the be encoded with 32 Kbit only which is probably not enough for most users. This is therefor just a theoretical approach to downloading music from Soundpedia which can be used on other sites as well.

You do need the software Grab++, Orbit Downloader and a browser.

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I read about Soundpedia at Techcrunch for the first time and was pleasantly surprised about the functionality and look of Soundpedia. What I really like about it is that you can listen to complete albums using their music flash player. You can either search for artists or albums using the site search or browse artists and albums by selecting a genre from the sidebar.

The site search and browsing the genres is currently the only way to be able to find and listen to all artists that are hosted on Soundpedia. The method to browse the albums and artists reveals that only a few of them are listed currently.

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TV Links is a very comprehensive up to date website that offers links to hundreds of TV shows, movies, cartoons, anime, music videos and sport shows. The main url brings you to the listing of all available TV shows which start with all episodes of 24 and end with Zoey 101.

All popular shows like Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Star Gate, Star Trek, Desperate Housewives, The Sopranos, Criminal Minds, Alias and hundreds more are available with most if not all episodes a mouse click away. One little drawback is that several episodes have subtitles in different languages but the main language is English.

All shows load in a small popup and play immediately at least on my connection. All videos are hosted on the usual video hosting websites such as Youtube, Veoh and Dailymotion. Tv Links is updated frequently with new shows and broken episodes get replaced rather quickly, at least that is the case for the most popular shows.

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Nothing is more frustrating than to witness that the movie that you downloaded for hours won’t play on your computer. Maybe there is only black screen, no audio, blurred pictures or out of sync audio and video. The most likely cause for this behavior is that a audio or video codec is missing on your system.

One way to solve this would be to install one of the huge codec packages that probably install the codec that you need but will definitely install many other codecs that you will never need or even cause problems on your system.

Codec Installer is a freeware much like G-Spot wich analyzed a video file and displays audio and video codec information about it. A nice feature is the option to download any identified missing codec right from Codec Installer saving you the hassle to search for the right and current version of the codec on the Internet.

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