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		<title>Music Player Jaangle</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/26/music-player-jaangle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to get Teen Spirit to work for quite some time but never succeeded. The developers have in the meantime renamed their application to Jaangle and surprise, surprise: the music player does not crash anymore on my computer system. Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to music players from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/jaangle.jpg" alt="jaangle" title="jaangle" width="196" height="84" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-16676" />I have been trying to get Teen Spirit to work for quite some time but never succeeded. The developers have in the meantime renamed their application to Jaangle and surprise, surprise: the music player does not crash anymore on my computer system. Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to music players from the popular Winamp to resource friendly players like AIMP2 or highly configurable ones like Foobar. Jaangle does offer a few features out of the box that might make it the prime choice for some users.</p>
<p>Probably the most noteworthy is the automatic recognition of music that gets added to the music player. It is possible to scan folders on the local hard drive for music. Album art and additional information are automatically retrieved by Jaangle and displayed in the player. This does include band and artist information which are usually not provided by many music players.</p>
<p><span id="more-16675"></span>Jaangle can also display song lyrics, tabs, reviews and user comments if available. Extensive tagging options are supported to edit or add tags to songs or albums. This includes the usual information such as band name, genre or album but also lyrics, tabs and comments.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/music_player-500x350.jpg" alt="music player" title="music player" width="500" height="350" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16677" /></p>
<p>Another interesting feature is the search which offers several advanced search parameters. It is possible to perform a basic search, advanced search (artist, title, album, location), display the latest additions since a specific date, by rating or by lyrics, comments or personal information.</p>
<p>A major drawback of the music player is missing Internet radio support; Something that most players are offering. <a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/09/25/jaangle-stylish-audio-manager-downloads-info-and-artwork-from-the-net/">Samer</a> of Freeware Genius points out that it is also missing mp3 player support, audio podcast subscriptions and CD ripping capabilities. <a href="http://www.jaangle.com/">Jaangle</a> can be downloaded from the developer&#8217;s website. It is compatible with most Windows operating systems including Windows XP and Windows Vista. It is an interesting player for users who do not need the missing functionality.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/jaangle/" title="jaangle" rel="tag">jaangle</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-player/" title="music player" rel="tag">music player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-software/" title="windows software" rel="tag">windows software</a><br />

	<h4>Related posts</h4>
	<ul class="st-related-posts">
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/" title="Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player (July 4, 2009)">Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/" title="Windows Media Player Import for Winamp (August 15, 2009)">Windows Media Player Import for Winamp</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/19/songbird-1-2/" title="Songbird 1.2 (June 19, 2009)">Songbird 1.2</a> (5)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/12/aimp-2-adds-windows-7-jumplist-support/" title="Aimp 2 Adds Windows 7 Jumplist Support (August 12, 2009)">Aimp 2 Adds Windows 7 Jumplist Support</a> (10)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/20/xbmc-media-center-final/" title="XBMC Media Center Final (November 20, 2008)">XBMC Media Center Final</a> (13)</li>
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		<title>Windows Media Player Import for Winamp</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media-player]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winamp library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows media player]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows media player import]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows media player library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Media Player and Winamp are two of the most popular media players that come with a large feature set that include playing various video and audio formats or media management capabilities. Users who want to transfer their multimedia collection from Windows Media Player to Winamp now have the possibility to automate the process with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/windows_media_player.jpg" alt="windows media player" title="windows media player" width="162" height="55" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12787" />Windows Media Player and Winamp are two of the most popular media players that come with a large feature set that include playing various video and audio formats or media management capabilities. Users who want to transfer their multimedia collection from Windows Media Player to Winamp now have the possibility to automate the process with the help of the free Windows Media Player Import software program for the Windows operating system.</p>
<p>Winamp by default comes with the option to import the iTunes media library. It does however not include a similar option to import media from Windows Media Player which is why the software program has been created by the developer.</p>
<p><span id="more-15384"></span>The application can import the Windows Media Player library into Winamp. This includes audio and videos files, all metadata including ratings and play counts. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/windows_media_player_winamp_import.png" alt="windows media player winamp import" title="windows media player winamp import" width="441" height="382" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15385" /></p>
<p>The software comes with a few options to customize the import of the Windows Media Player library. It is possible to import all media files or only audio or video files. There is also an option to only import audio and video from an existing playlist.</p>
<p>Three additional options are available. It is possible to ignore files that are already in the Winamp Media Library, remove files from the Winamp Media Library that are not in the Windows Media Player Library and to automatically import on Winamp startup.</p>
<p>The program will not make any changes to Windows Media Player no matter which settings are selected in the application. </p>
<p><a href="http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/moreprogs/mlwmpimport.htm">Windows Media Player Import</a> is available at the developer&#8217;s website. It requires Windows 2000 or higher (means it is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7), Winamp 5 or higher and Windows Media Player 9 or higher.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/media-player/" title="media-player" rel="tag">media-player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/winamp/" title="winamp" rel="tag">winamp</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/winamp-library/" title="winamp library" rel="tag">winamp library</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-media-player/" title="windows media player" rel="tag">windows media player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-media-player-import/" title="windows media player import" rel="tag">windows media player import</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-media-player-library/" title="windows media player library" rel="tag">windows media player library</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-software/" title="windows software" rel="tag">windows software</a><br />

	<h4>Related posts</h4>
	<ul class="st-related-posts">
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/" title="Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player (July 4, 2009)">Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/26/music-player-jaangle/" title="Music Player Jaangle (September 26, 2009)">Music Player Jaangle</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/19/how-to-add-your-music-to-videos/" title="How to add your music to videos (May 19, 2008)">How to add your music to videos</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/09/autolyrix-automatically-displays-lyrics-and-album-art/" title="AutoLyrix Automatically Displays Lyrics And Album Art (December 9, 2008)">AutoLyrix Automatically Displays Lyrics And Album Art</a> (12)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/12/aimp-2-adds-windows-7-jumplist-support/" title="Aimp 2 Adds Windows 7 Jumplist Support (August 12, 2009)">Aimp 2 Adds Windows 7 Jumplist Support</a> (10)</li>
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		<title>Extract Audio From Videos</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/extract-audio-from-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/extract-audio-from-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio extractor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extract audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extract music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[x2x free audio converter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Extracting audio from videos can be interesting for computer users in several occasions. Be it extracting music from videos to be able to listen it in a music player or mp3 player or extracting audio from television interviews or movies to do the same. Quite a few free software programs are available that can extract [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/microsoft_windows.jpg" alt="microsoft windows" title="microsoft windows" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11907" />Extracting audio from videos can be interesting for computer users in several occasions. Be it extracting music from videos to be able to listen it in a music player or mp3 player or extracting audio from television interviews or movies to do the same. Quite a few free software programs are available that can extract audio from videos including the excellent <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/21/create-ringtones-with-audacity-and-youtube/">Audacity</a> but also <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/07/extract-audio-directly-from-youtube-with-mediacoder/">Mediacoder</a> or <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/19/grab-the-latest-music-from-youtube/">FLV Extract</a>.</p>
<p>One of the most comfortable computer programs to extract audio from video files is X2X Free Audio Converter. It is possible to load multiple videos into the application and convert them in a batch process. Videos can be loaded from the build in file browser.</p>
<p><span id="more-14930"></span>Many major video formats are supported by the audio extractor including avi, wmv, mov, mp4 or flv. The audio that gets extracted can be converted into various audio formats including mp3, ogg,wav, aac or wma.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/extract_audio_from_videos-500x370.jpg" alt="extract audio from videos" title="extract audio from videos" width="500" height="370" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-14931" /></p>
<p>The quality of the audio files can also be configured by the user from economy quality which uses a 64 Kbit to high quality encodings with 256 Kbit. A few advanced options are available that include trimming the video to extract only the audio from a specific part of it. The time it takes to extract the audio from the videos depends on the length and format of the videos.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.x2xsoft.com/productlist/audio.html">X2X Free Audio Converter</a> is definitely a pretty basic software program that does exactly what the user expects of it.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio-extractor/" title="audio extractor" rel="tag">audio extractor</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/extract-audio/" title="extract audio" rel="tag">extract audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/extract-music/" title="extract music" rel="tag">extract music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-software/" title="windows software" rel="tag">windows software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/x2x-free-audio-converter/" title="x2x free audio converter" rel="tag">x2x free audio converter</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/" title="Windows Media Player Import for Winamp (August 15, 2009)">Windows Media Player Import for Winamp</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/" title="Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player (July 4, 2009)">Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/26/music-player-jaangle/" title="Music Player Jaangle (September 26, 2009)">Music Player Jaangle</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/21/zonescreen-finally-gets-64-bit-update/" title="ZoneScreen Finally Gets 64-bit Update (October 21, 2008)">ZoneScreen Finally Gets 64-bit Update</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/07/zc-dvd-creator-platinum-free-full-version/" title="ZC DVD Creator Platinum [Free Full Version] (October 7, 2009)">ZC DVD Creator Platinum [Free Full Version]</a> (16)</li>
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		<title>Automatically Download Youtube Videos (And More)</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/21/automatically-download-youtube-videos-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/21/automatically-download-youtube-videos-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Browsing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firefox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[download youtube videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[download-manager]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the popularity of video portals like Youtube came the desire to download the videos to the local computer system to be able to watch them (again) offline or to convert them to burn them to DVD and watch them on TV. Hundreds of applications and software programs have been designed to fill that gap [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/firefox.png" alt="firefox" title="firefox" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13848" />With the popularity of video portals like Youtube came the desire to download the videos to the local computer system to be able to watch them (again) offline or to convert them to burn them to DVD and watch them on TV. Hundreds of applications and software programs have been designed to fill that gap and we already reviewed many of them in the past including popular download manager like <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/orbit-downloader/">Orbit Downloader</a> or the <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox/">Firefox</a> add-on <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/11/firefox-download-helper-extension/">Download Helper</a>.</p>
<p>Yahoo Downloader is another Firefox extension that has been designed to download videos from portals like Youtube, Yahoo or CNN but also music from sites like Pandora, Last.fm or Imeem. Probably the most interesting feature for many users is the ability to automatically download videos from these websites.</p>
<p><span id="more-14574"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/download_youtube_videos.jpg" alt="download youtube videos" title="download youtube videos" width="438" height="347" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14575" /></p>
<p>The Firefox add-on places an icon in the Firefox address bar. Some users might not like the location of the icon as it is placed on the left side of the address bar. This can however be easily changed by right-clicking blank space on that toolbar and selecting the customize option. The Yahoo Downloader icon can then be dragged and dropped to another location, toolbar or even removed completely as it is not needed for most of the functionality.</p>
<p>A left-click on the icon will display the window of the download that will list all the videos that have been discovered in open tabs in the Firefox web browser.A click on the download it button will start the download. This can be automated if automatic downloads have been enabled in the options of the Firefox add-on. This setting makes it very comfortable to download youtube videos or videos and music from the other supported audio and video portals.</p>
<p>All videos will be downloaded to a location on the local computer system which can also be changed in the options of the add-on. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13059">Yahoo Downloader</a> is a great add-on for users who download many videos or music and want to automate the process as much as possible.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-youtube-videos/" title="download youtube videos" rel="tag">download youtube videos</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-manager/" title="download-manager" rel="tag">download-manager</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox-add-on/" title="firefox-add on" rel="tag">firefox-add on</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox-extension/" title="firefox-extension" rel="tag">firefox-extension</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/pandora/" title="pandora" rel="tag">pandora</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/yahoo-downloader/" title="yahoo downloader" rel="tag">yahoo downloader</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youtube/" title="youtube" rel="tag">youtube</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/11/youtube-comment-cloud-firefox-add-on/" title="Youtube Comment Cloud Firefox Add-On (April 11, 2009)">Youtube Comment Cloud Firefox Add-On</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/25/video-download-add-on-netvideohunter-for-firefox/" title="Video Download Add-On NetVideoHunter For Firefox (May 25, 2009)">Video Download Add-On NetVideoHunter For Firefox</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/sort-downloads-in-firefox/" title="Sort Downloads In Firefox (November 29, 2008)">Sort Downloads In Firefox</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/13/grab-download-music-videos-and-flash-from-websites/" title="Grab++ download music, videos and flash from websites (June 13, 2007)">Grab++ download music, videos and flash from websites</a> (9)</li>
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		<title>Miro 2.5 RC1 Released</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/08/miro-2-5-rc1-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/08/miro-2-5-rc1-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Miro team has released the first release candidate of the upcoming Miro 2.5 version. Miro is a very convenient media player that combines Internet media with local media. It offers one of the most sophisticated and easy to use interfaces. Users can integrate their audio and video files in Miro but the main advantage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/miro25.jpg" alt="miro25" title="miro25" width="128" height="107" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14244" />The Miro team has released the first release candidate of the upcoming Miro 2.5 version. Miro is a very convenient media player that combines Internet media with local media. It offers one of the most sophisticated and easy to use interfaces. Users can integrate their audio and video files in Miro but the main advantage is the ability to subscribe to channels to download and watch their content in the player. It is pretty much like RSS feeds only that the content is not only text but also video and audio content.</p>
<p>There are hundreds, if not thousands of content channels to choose from the latest movie trailers to the most popular Youtube videos to Ubuntu guides. It is also possible to add feeds that you discover that are not already included in Miro. These feeds will be handled just like any other feed.</p>
<p><span id="more-14243"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/miro-500x439.jpg" alt="miro" title="miro" width="500" height="439" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-14245" /></p>
<p>It is possible to auto download new posts from the subscribed feeds or to download them manually. Miro offers a built in Torrent client as well which makes it possible to download audio and video torrents to watch them in the interface as well.</p>
<p>Version 2.5 of Miro comes with some serious (that&#8217;s what the developers call it) speed and memory usage improvements. It can be downloaded from the <a href="http://www.pculture.org/nightlies/">nightlies</a> downloads page.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio-player/" title="audio player" rel="tag">audio player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/miro/" title="miro" rel="tag">miro</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/miro-2-5/" title="miro 2.5" rel="tag">miro 2.5</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/rss-audio/" title="rss audio" rel="tag">rss audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/rss-video/" title="rss video" rel="tag">rss video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/torrents/" title="torrents" rel="tag">torrents</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video-player/" title="video-player" rel="tag">video-player</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/" title="Windows Media Player Import for Winamp (August 15, 2009)">Windows Media Player Import for Winamp</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/18/the-best-linux-media-players/" title="The best Linux media players (April 18, 2009)">The best Linux media players</a> (20)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/" title="Taksi Open Source Alternative to Fraps (December 12, 2006)">Taksi Open Source Alternative to Fraps</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/13/taking-a-second-look-at-miro/" title="Taking a second look at Miro (January 13, 2008)">Taking a second look at Miro</a> (5)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/26/stream-video-torrents/" title="Stream Video Torrents (July 26, 2008)">Stream Video Torrents</a> (2)</li>
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		<title>Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trout is a lightweight free music player by Donation coder member Skwire. It was born out of one of the coding challenges and has since then evolved into a music player packed with functionality. It is on the other hand a bare bones music player without a fancy skin and visualizations. Users who do not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/microsoft_windows.jpg" alt="microsoft windows" title="microsoft windows" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11907" />Trout is a lightweight free music player by <a href="http://www.donationcoder.com/">Donation coder</a> member Skwire. It was born out of one of the coding challenges and has since then evolved into a music player packed with functionality. It is on the other hand a bare bones music player without a fancy skin and visualizations. Users who do not need these features or want a secondary audio player for certain situations might want to read on.</p>
<p>Trout can be downloaded as a portable version or installer. It supports a wide variety of audio formats including mp3, ogg, wma, flac and others. Music can be loaded by dragging and dropping files or folders into the interface or by using the menu toolbar at the top. All audio files that have been loaded into the player are displayed in the playlist area in the lower half. This area contains not only information about the names of the songs but also information about bitrates, sizes, artist and album tags and more.</p>
<p><span id="more-14119"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/free_music_player.png" alt="free music player" title="free music player" width="487" height="333" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14120" /></p>
<p>Songs can be sorted by clicking on one of the columns. It is for example possible to sort by album, artist, playing time or filename. Trout offers a set of features that many expect from today&#8217;s music players. This includes support for Internet radio streams, freeDB support for audio CDs, compatibility with most tag formats and tag editing, hotkeys, lyrics, album covers or various play modes. Track announcements are another interesting feature that are great when listening to audiobooks.</p>
<p>The minimized music player needs less than 3 Megabytes of computer memory while playing and therefor ideal for low end computer systems. The free music player <a href="http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/trout.php">Trout</a> is compatible with all Microsoft operating systems from Windows 9x on including Windows XP and Windows Vista. It can be downloaded directly from the developer&#8217;s website.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/donation-coder/" title="donation-coder" rel="tag">donation-coder</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/free-music-player/" title="free music player" rel="tag">free music player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3/" title="mp3" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-player/" title="music player" rel="tag">music player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/portable-software/" title="portable software" rel="tag">portable software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/trout/" title="trout" rel="tag">trout</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows-software/" title="windows software" rel="tag">windows software</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/26/music-player-jaangle/" title="Music Player Jaangle (September 26, 2009)">Music Player Jaangle</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/18/id3-mass-tagger/" title="ID3 Mass Tagger (February 18, 2009)">ID3 Mass Tagger</a> (0)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/15/windows-media-player-import-for-winamp/" title="Windows Media Player Import for Winamp (August 15, 2009)">Windows Media Player Import for Winamp</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/04/what-type-of-music-am-i-listening-to/" title="What Type of Music Am I listening to ? (January 4, 2008)">What Type of Music Am I listening to ?</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/24/validate-your-mp3-collection/" title="Validate your mp3 collection (November 24, 2007)">Validate your mp3 collection</a> (4)</li>
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		<title>The best Linux media players</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/18/the-best-linux-media-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Wallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rhythmbox.png" alt="rhythmbox" title="rhythmbox" width="120" height="120" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12168" />Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over all of a sudden there is no Windows Media Player or iTunes. And then comes the bombardment of different applications to choose from! All of this combined makes for some difficult usage. </p>
<p><span id="more-12138"></span>And so&#8230;I thought it would be smart to write about the best tools to play certain media types. Understand that these are the best in my opinion. You might hear differently from every other user.</p>
<p>With that in mind, let&#8217;s take a look at the best audio and video viewing tools available.</p>
<p><strong>Audio</strong></p>
<p><strong><a title="XMMS" href="http://www.xmms.org/" target="_blank">XMMS</a>. </strong>Call me a purist but for straight up audio you can not beat XMMS. No you will not be able to manage your iPod with this tool. But for pure music enjoyment, nothing beats it. And if you were a Winamp user you are in luck because it works the same way. There is one hiccup with using XMMS. If you plan on playing MP3 files, like everyone does, you&#8217;ll have to uninstall the XMMS installed on your distribution (if one was in fact installed), and make sure you install the player xmms-mp3 instead. Once installed you can enjoy: mp3, acc, ape, flac, icecase/shoutcast, ogg, shn, speex, tta, wav, wavpack, wma. XMMS is also themeable for all you desktop hipters ;-).</p>
<p><strong>Rhythmbox</strong></p>
<p>Of all the music managers, my favorite is Rhythmox. Rhythmbox was inspired by iTunes so, as you can imagine, it integrates well with iPods and other such devices. And although you can not use Rhythmbox with the iTunes store, you can download music from both <a title="Magnatune" href="http://www.magnatune.com/" target="_blank">Magnatune</a> and <a title="Jamendo" href="http://www.jamendo.com/" target="_blank">Jamendo</a>. Rythmbox also supports DAAP sharing which allows you to connect to a centralized server. Rhythmbox uses Gstreamer so it supports a wide range of audio formats.</p>
<p><a title="Banshee" href="http://banshee-project.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Banshee</strong></a></p>
<p>Banshee is another favorite that manages to one-up Rhythmbox by being the first Linux media manager to integrate with the Android-based G1 phone. Banshee offers all of the features of Rhythmbox minus the ability to download music from a &#8220;store&#8221;. Banshee does, however, include last.fm stream support. The list of audio files Banshee supports is smaller than that of XMMS mp3, acc, ogg, and wav.</p>
<p><strong>Video</strong></p>
<p><a title="MPlayer" href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html" target="_blank"><strong>Mplayer</strong></a></p>
<p>Mplayer is not usually the default video player in Linux nor is it the easiest to install or get running. But when you do get it installed and running it works flawlessly. There are some distributions (such as <a title="Elive Compiz" href="http://www.elivecd.org/Download/e17-compiz" target="_blank">Elive Compiz</a>) that install MPlayer<strong> </strong>as the default movie player which plays video files and DVDs perfectly.</p>
<p><a title="VLC" href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank"><strong>VLC</strong></a></p>
<p>VLC is typically the favorite &#8220;universal&#8221; media player. This little gem really can play it all. And the beauty of VLC is that it&#8217;s cross platform, so if you know VLC in Windows or Mac, you will know it in Linux. VLC supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming. VLC is not nearly the installation nightmare of most other video players. If your distribution does not default to VLC, you might want to give it a try before you resign yourself to the idea that Linux and video do not make good bedfellows.</p>
<p><a title="XINE" href="http://www.xine-project.org/home" target="_blank"><strong>XINE</strong></a></p>
<p>When all else fails, XINE. XINE is one of the more well done, reliable, versatile of the media players. XINE plays CDs, DVDs, VCDs,? and decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3. You can also install support for mov and mp4 media as well as real player files. XINE is that media player I install when my current distro doesn&#8217;t play well with VLC or Mplayer.</p>
<p><strong>Final Thoughts</strong></p>
<p>Viewing media files doesn&#8217;t have to be difficult, even in the Linux operating system. Although this list isn&#8217;t exhaustive, it is the best of the best IMHO. Any of the above players should work well for you.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/linux/" title="Linux" rel="tag">Linux</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/media/" title="media" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/11/use-orb-to-stream-media-on-any-device-with-internet-access/" title="Use Orb to stream media on any device with internet access (January 11, 2007)">Use Orb to stream media on any device with internet access</a> (1)</li>
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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/10/showmedo-free-video-tutorial-website/" title="ShowMeDo Free Video Tutorial Website (December 10, 2006)">ShowMeDo Free Video Tutorial Website</a> (7)</li>
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		<title>Extract Audio Directly from YouTube with Mediacoder</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/07/extract-audio-directly-from-youtube-with-mediacoder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
YouTube isn&#8217;t just for watching videos. A lot of times you can find great music in the form of old songs that aren&#8217;t available anywhere else online. Or you come across a fascinating audio track and get tempted to use it elsewhere.
Extracting audio from a YouTube video usually requires you to download the video [...]]]></description>
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<p>YouTube isn&#8217;t just for watching videos. A lot of times you can find great music in the form of old songs that aren&#8217;t available anywhere else online. Or you come across a fascinating audio track and get tempted to use it elsewhere.</p>
<p>Extracting audio from a YouTube video usually requires you to download the video to your hard drive, convert it to another format and then extract the audio track from it. Well, I&#8217;ve been doing a little experimenting and discovered that you can extract audio directly without downloading the video from YouTube. The secret of my success: <a href="http://www.mediacoderhq.com/index.htm">MediaCoder</a>.</p>
<p>As far as transcoders go, Mediacoder is one of the best out there. It requires a bit of a learning curve but it&#8217;s capable of a lot of stuff. I&#8217;ve been using it almost exclusively whenever I need to convert a video or any media files.</p>
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<p>To extract the audio directly from a YouTube video, navigate to the video in question and copy the link in the address bar. Then, open up Mediacoder, click on the <strong>Add</strong> button and select <strong>Add Url</strong>. Paste the link of the video in the box that pops up.</p>
<p>Now, you need to adjust the settings of the converted file. On the lower left-hand side of the GUI are the different transcoding parameters. Click on the <strong>Audio </strong>tab and select the encoder format. For example, if you want an MP3 file, you would select the Lame MP3 encoder. Then, click the <strong>Video </strong>tab and uncheck the box ‘Enable Video&#8217;. This ensures that only the audio is transcoded.</p>
<p>Once your transcoded settings are in place, click the <strong>Start </strong>button to begin converting your file. It only takes a few minutes or so. After transcoding is finished, play back the transcoded file and check if it&#8217;s complete.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve done a lot of testing and this method works for most YouTube videos but not all of them. I think that has something to do with the format used in the original file upload. Still, this is a nice trick to try out whenever you want to quickly extract an audio track from online video.</p>
<p>Have you used Mediacoder to extract audio before? What do you think of this tip? What software do you use to extract audio from a video clip? Let me know in the comments.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/converting/" title="converting" rel="tag">converting</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mediacoder/" title="mediacoder" rel="tag">mediacoder</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youtube/" title="youtube" rel="tag">youtube</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/24/youtube-enhance-youtube-experience/" title="Youtube: Enhance Youtube Experience (April 24, 2009)">Youtube: Enhance Youtube Experience</a> (11)</li>
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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/01/youtube-video-search-is-a-barebone-youtube-downloader/" title="Youtube Video Search Is A Barebone Youtube Downloader (September 1, 2009)">Youtube Video Search Is A Barebone Youtube Downloader</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/26/youtube-video-awards-2006-winners/" title="Youtube Video Awards 2006 Winners (March 26, 2007)">Youtube Video Awards 2006 Winners</a> (0)</li>
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		<title>Cue Splitter</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/02/cue-splitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A somewhat rarer format for music is providing an album as one mp3 file that is accompanied by a cue. The cue file contains the information about the track list, song names and artists. Several applications like Exact Audio Copy have options to rip audio CDs that way. This does pose a few problems however. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A somewhat rarer format for music is providing an album as one mp3 file that is accompanied by a cue. The cue file contains the information about the track list, song names and artists. Several applications like Exact Audio Copy have options to rip audio CDs that way. This does pose a few problems however. The main one being that one cannot pick a single track from the album or copy a single track to a mp3 player like the Apple iPod.</p>
<p>That is when so called cue splitters come into play. A cue splitter basically uses the information provided in the cue file to split the large mp3 file into corresponding single tracks. <a href="http://www.medieval.it/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=28&#038;Itemid=70">Medieval</a> Cue Splitter is one program that can be used for this task. The free software pretty much does all the work. At best all the user has to do is to load a cue file into the application and press on the Split button to start the process.</p>
<p>The Cue Splitter does provide several advanced options like picking the right naming format for the mp3 files that are created. The default naming convention is (track number) [artist] song title, for instance (01) [Ash] Lose Control.mp3. This can be changed easily in the options to something without brackets and spaces.</p>
<p><span id="more-6705"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cue_splitter-500x389.jpg" alt="cue splitter" title="cue splitter" width="500" height="389" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6706" /></p>
<p>Splitting the mp3 into different single songs takes only a few seconds with Medieval Cue Splitter. The software program provides access to all tags which can be edited.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio-software/" title="audio software" rel="tag">audio software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/cue-splitter/" title="cue splitter" rel="tag">cue splitter</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/medieval-cue-splitter/" title="medieval cue splitter" rel="tag">medieval cue splitter</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3-software/" title="mp3 software" rel="tag">mp3 software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3-splitter/" title="mp3 splitter" rel="tag">mp3 splitter</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a><br />

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		<title>How to add your music to videos</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/19/how-to-add-your-music-to-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 07:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be a quick tutorial on how to use the Open Source software Virtualdub to add music to videos. I started recording some games that I&#8217;m playing for my game blog Take 9 and discovered in the process how it is fairly easy to add your music to the videos. Now this might be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This will be a quick tutorial on how to use the Open Source software Virtualdub to add music to videos. I started recording some games that I&#8217;m playing for my game blog Take 9 and discovered in the process how it is fairly easy to add your music to the videos. Now this might be common knowledge for the video guys among us but everyone else who wants a clean fast solution might be inclined to give this method a try.</p>
<p>You do need the program <a href="http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/">Virtualdub</a>, a video file and some sort of audio file. Now start Virtualdub and either open the video using the File > Open Video File dialog or drag and drop it into the program interface. The video can be played right away in the software. You see it twice because the left one is the original video and the right one the processed video. If you only change the audio they will look alike.</p>
<p>Click on Video and make sure Full Processing Mode is activated. Switch to the Audio menu and make sure Direct Stream Copy is active in here. Select the Audio from other file option and pick a audio file on your hard drive. It will be automatically integrated in your video and play in normal speed.</p>
<p><span id="more-4183"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/virtualdub-500x321.jpg" alt="virtualdub" title="virtualdub" width="500" height="321" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4184" /></p>
<p>Hit the play button at the bottom to see the video and listen to your audio. It should be in sync. If you are satisfied with the result you can select a compression for the video in the Video > Compression menu and save the video afterwards in File > Save as Avi.</p>
<p>Normally the music will not have the same length as the video and you could sync both by adjusting the frame rate of the video. Click on Video > Frame Rate. Notice the Change so Video and Audio Durations Match ? If you select that option the audio and video will have the same playtime. This means however that the frame rate of the video will either be increased (if the audio is shorter) or decreased (if the audio is longer).</p>
<p>So your video will either play faster or slower depending on your selection. A good tip is to convert the fps to the original fps as well in the same menu. I try to find audio files that roughly have the same length as the video to avoid slow or super fast videos.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/software/" title="software" rel="tag">software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/virtualdub/" title="virtualdub" rel="tag">virtualdub</a><br />

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		<title>Create executable media files</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/create-executable-media-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to send a video to your friend that you found on Youtube only to find out that Youtube is blocked at his school or workplace or that the video is not playable because it is missing the needed codec and the installation of new applications or codecs is blocked ? Audio / Video to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to send a video to your friend that you found on Youtube only to find out that Youtube is blocked at his school or workplace or that the video is not playable because it is missing the needed codec and the installation of new applications or codecs is blocked ? Audio / Video to Exe might be the solution. I&#8217;m usually not very fond of executables sent over email or offered on websites and very cautious before I even think of double-clicking those files.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s ok as long as you can validate that the executable has been send by a friend. I would still scan it using an online scanner though. The software supports a lot of different audio and video formats, all the important ones are included like mov, flv, mp4, mpg, avi, swf and wmv.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.f2ko.de/English/a2e/index.php">Audio / Video to Exe</a> (via <a href="http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/05/how-to-play-audio-and-video-files.html">Instant Fundas</a>) can process multiple files at once and either convert them into a different format or create one executable for each multimedia file that has been added to the interface. The output size is roughly the size of the audio or video file.</p>
<p><span id="more-4122"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/audio_video_to_exe.jpg" alt="audio video to exe" title="audio video to exe" width="500" height="209" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4123" /></p>
<p>I did encounter several errors while testing the application. It seems to have trouble with large files. The conversion of a 1.7 Gigabyte video to the executable format succeeded but I was not able to play it afterwards. Some videos were not playing correctly as well after the conversion.</p>
<p>The only advice that I can give is to try it out for yourself and see if the conversion worked for the audio or video files before you upload them or send them to a friend.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio-conversion/" title="audio conversion" rel="tag">audio conversion</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/codecs/" title="codecs" rel="tag">codecs</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/exe/" title="exe" rel="tag">exe</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/multimedia/" title="multimedia" rel="tag">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/software/" title="software" rel="tag">software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video-conversion/" title="video conversion" rel="tag">video conversion</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/windows/" title="Windows" rel="tag">Windows</a><br />

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		<title>List all installed multimedia codecs</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/18/list-all-installed-multimedia-codecs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listing all installed multimedia codecs is an easy task if you use the software Installed Codec from Nirsoft. The software scans the registry in two places looking for installed codecs displaying them afterwards in a list that can be sorted in a few different ways. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listing all installed multimedia codecs is an easy task if you use the software Installed Codec from Nirsoft. The software scans the registry in two places looking for installed codecs displaying them afterwards in a list that can be sorted in a few different ways. </p>
<p>The main purpose of Installed Codecs is to be able to find out which codecs that have been installed lately are interfering with other codecs that have already been installed on the PC. This can be done by sorting the codecs chronologically and disabling those that have been installed lately.</p>
<p>Some understanding of video and audio codecs is helpful as well because it would not make sense to disable audio codecs when analyzing a video playback problem.</p>
<p><span id="more-2141"></span>Installed Codec does not have to be installed and can be run from any place. It takes a few seconds before the list of all installed codecs is populated. A right-click opens a menu with options to enable and disable codecs, save items and create html reports.</p>
<p>The location of the installed codec is mentioned in the properties as well which makes it easy to delete it instead of just disabling it. Installed Codec is compatible with Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/installed_codec.html">Installed Codec</a></p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/codec/" title="codec" rel="tag">codec</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/installed-codec/" title="installed codec" rel="tag">installed codec</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/playback-problem/" title="playback problem" rel="tag">playback problem</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a><br />

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		<title>Semi-Automatic MP3 Tagger</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/26/semi-automatic-mp3-tagger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music collections are usually a big pile of messy filenames and folders that have artist, album and song names mixed up. Some files do have mp3 tags, some don't and it would take a long time to go through your music collection manually and edit the mp3 tags. I literally tried and tested a dozen mp3 tagger before I came up with the best solution that would be the most precise and at the same time most automatic way of tagging my mp3 files.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Music collections are usually a big pile of messy filenames and folders that have artist, album and song names mixed up. Some files do have mp3 tags, some don&#8217;t and it would take a long time to go through your music collection manually and edit the mp3 tags. I literally tried and tested a dozen mp3 tagger before I came up with the best solution that would be the most precise and at the same time most automatic way of tagging my mp3 files.</p>
<p>I did find the free mp3 tagger called <a href="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload" target="_blank">Picard</a> shortly after I began my research on the subject. All I had to do was download and install it and add a directory that would contain my mp3 files. Picard would analyze the files and would add them into a category called unclustered files. Pressing the cluster button would try and group the files together sorted by artist and album.</p>
<p><span id="more-1238"></span> This worked well for all of my files except for one single song which I had to manually drop into the right album. Now that everything was sorted the way I wanted it to be I had to start and edit the mp3 tag information to complete the operation.</p>
<p>This process is semi-automatic. Select an album from the list of clustered albums and press the lookup button. A website opens with search results and it is up to you to select the correct artist and album from the search results. This sounds like lots of work but it is not.</p>
<p>The search works fine and takes only a second to show the results. The information will be added to the Albums section of Picard. The last step would be to drag and drop the clustered album onto the new information in the Albums section. Picard tries to automatically add the correct information to the songs, if that does not work you can drag and drop them into the right place.</p>
<p>It is possible to edit information manually and customize the output. The default structure would be artist name / album. Picard is available for Windows and Linux.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3/" title="mp3" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3-tagger/" title="mp3 tagger" rel="tag">mp3 tagger</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/picard/" title="picard" rel="tag">picard</a><br />

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		<title>Record Sounds from any source</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/09/record-sounds-from-any-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Audacity is a great audio editing utility with the ability to record sounds and edit them afterwards it still felt a little bit overweight for the mere taks of recording sounds fast on a computer. I found a freeware utility that can record sounds from any incoming source in various formats including ogg vorbis, monkey audio, mp3 and acm.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While Audacity is a great audio editing utility with the ability to record sounds and edit them afterwards it still felt a little bit overweight for the mere task of recording sounds fast on a computer. I found a freeware utility that can record sounds from any incoming source in various formats including ogg vorbis, monkey audio, mp3 and acm.</p>
<p>The best feature of <a href="http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php" title="record sounds" target="_blank">Harddisk Ogg</a> is that it sits in the tray once configured and you can start the recording with a single mouse click and end it with another one. The quality of the recorded audio can be configured in detail including bitrate, mono or stereo recording and encoding quality.</p>
<p><span id="more-1185"></span> Harddisk Ogg offers several normalization modes that amplify the input signal to a constant volume. You need to download and move the <a href="http://www.mp3dev.org/" title="lame encoder" target="_blank">lame encoder</a> into the folder of Harddisk Ogg to be able to record mp3 files directly.</p>
<p>I would like to explain why a tool like Harddisk Ogg might be useful now or in the near future. Several countries have already laws in place that make it illegal to copy music from Cd&#8217;s if the CD is copy protected. They still allow however to record the songs using audio devices and compare this to the recording of radio with audio tapes.</p>
<p>This is also great if you want to rip audio from music videos that you found on the internet or from youtube videos.</p>

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		<title>Odeo offers an impressive list of podcasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do like podcasts. I listen mostly to music when I'm traveling but I sometimes have the urge to listen to podcasts and especially those that teach me something or cover subjects that I'm interested in. Podcasts are a great way of keeping up with the latest trends and technology on the internet in a time saving manner. I do not have to be near a computer and I can learn about new stuff while sitting in a car or train.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do like podcasts. I listen mostly to music when I&#8217;m traveling but I sometimes have the urge to listen to podcasts and especially those that teach me something or cover subjects that I&#8217;m interested in. Podcasts are a great way of keeping up with the latest trends and technology on the internet in a time saving manner. I do not have to be near a computer and I can learn about new stuff while sitting in a car or train.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" title="odeo" href="http://odeo.com/">Odeo</a> is one of those sites that look crappy but offer so much to their visitors. Their extensive podcast directory is my number one reason to visit them. It is not all about technology or internet, you do find podcasts that cover politics, sex and business as well. You may pick one of the 14 categories and delve right into the immense variety of podcasts that can be listened to online or downloaded in mp3 format.<br />
<span id="more-1098"></span> I know that you will head right for the sex category but let me give you information what Odeo offers besides the categories. You could start with the Odeo top 40 instead which is a listing of the top 40 podcasts at Odeo based on subscribers. Another option would be to take a look a the staff picks or use <a target="_blank" title="odeo tagging" href="http://odeo.com/tags/all">tagging</a> to find the podcasts that you like. (tagging page looks messed up though)</p>
<p>The best thing about Odeo is that it does not force you to register at the site. Guests may listen and download the podcasts as well. Members do have some advantages such as being able to create personalized playlists and create favorites.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/10/wikipedia-on-your-ipod/" title="Wikipedia on your iPod (January 10, 2007)">Wikipedia on your iPod</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/26/copy-songs-from-and-to-your-ipod-without-itunes/" title="Copy songs from and to your ipod without itunes (November 26, 2006)">Copy songs from and to your ipod without itunes</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/16/winamp-ipod-plugin-2/" title="Winamp iPod Plugin (July 16, 2008)">Winamp iPod Plugin</a> (5)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/" title="Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player (July 4, 2009)">Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/24/sync-any-mp3-player-with-itunes/" title="Sync any mp3 player with iTunes (April 24, 2008)">Sync any mp3 player with iTunes</a> (2)</li>
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		<title>Record any sound on your computer</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/25/record-any-sound-on-your-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought that it should be theoretically possible to record any sound that you are hearing on your computer. Sometimes solutions for selected programs exist but I was looking for a free program that could record any sound no matter the source it was coming from. This can be for example quite useful if you want to record conversations in Skype or Teamspeak or record a sound that you heard on a website on the internet. Yes, even streaming radio poses no problem but you should note that the following free tool is not capable of recognizing the beginning and end of songs. It just records for as long as you want.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always thought that it should be theoretically possible to record any sound that you are hearing on your computer. Sometimes solutions for selected programs exist but I was looking for a free program that could record any sound no matter the source it was coming from. This can be for example quite useful if you want to record conversations in Skype or Teamspeak or record a sound that you heard on a website on the internet. Yes, even streaming radio poses no problem but you should note that the following free tool is not capable of recognizing the beginning and end of songs. It just records for as long as you want.</p>
<p>The freeware that I&#8217;m speaking of is called <a target="_blank" title="mp3 my mp3 recorder" href="http://www.mp3mymp3.com/mp3_my_mp3_recorder.html">MP3 My MP3 Recorder</a>. After installing the application you specify the source from where you want to record the audio from. You may select from the following sources: Phone Line, Microphone, Line In, CD Player, AUX, SPDIF, Stereo Mix and Mono Mix. Stereo Mix for instance should be a great selection for most purposes. Once that is done you should fine tune the recording level for best results.</p>
<p><span id="more-1037"></span>To do so take a look at the bar on the right side of the program window which should not peak into the red area at all times.  Once that is done click on settings to specify the bit rate for the sound that will be recorded (between 32 and 320). You may also set a time limit for the recording but the default is to record until you stop the recording.</p>
<p>If everything is set the way you want it to be you click on the (red) recording button to start the process. The buttons to stop and play the already recorded songs will become active once that process has started.</p>
<p>I think this is a great tool if you want to record audio fast and easy. The quality is pretty nice as well.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/09/record-sounds-from-any-source/" title="Record Sounds from any source (February 9, 2007)">Record Sounds from any source</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/04/trout-is-a-lightweight-free-music-player/" title="Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player (July 4, 2009)">Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/18/top-xp-freeware-that-every-user-needs-part-3/" title="Top Xp Freeware that every user needs part 3 (November 18, 2006)">Top Xp Freeware that every user needs part 3</a> (5)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/" title="Taksi Open Source Alternative to Fraps (December 12, 2006)">Taksi Open Source Alternative to Fraps</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/skype-30-final-has-been-released/" title="Skype 3.0 final has been released (December 13, 2006)">Skype 3.0 final has been released</a> (2)</li>
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		<title>Taksi Open Source Alternative to Fraps</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fraps is a application that lets you capture videos / screens of 3D applications and is mostly used for recording in game movies. The biggest drawback of Fraps is that it is not freeware, you have to purchase it to use all of its features. Taksi steps in and provides a similar functionality with the advantage that it is Open Source, free for everyone to use and download.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" title="fraps" href="http://www.fraps.com/">Fraps</a> is a application that lets you capture videos / screens of 3D applications and is mostly used for recording in game movies. The biggest drawback of Fraps is that it is not freeware, you have to purchase it to use all of its features. <a target="_blank" title="taksi" href="http://taksi.sourceforge.net/">Taksi</a> steps in and provides a similar functionality with the advantage that it is Open Source, free for everyone to use and download.</p>
<p>The unregistered version of Fraps stops after 30 seconds of recording and adds a Fraps watermark automatically to the captured video. It does not make lots of sense to use this version but for testing purposes. Taksi on the other hand has no such limitations making it an ideal capturing application for everyone who does not want to buy Fraps.</p>
<p><span id="more-1002"></span>Taksi is able to use installed video codecs to compress the recorded video on the fly which makes it possible to record very long sequences. The biggest drawback is that Taksi will not record audio as well, you need to find a different way to record the audio. (should work with <a target="_blank" title="harddisk ogg" href="http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php">harddisk ogg</a> for example, not tested though). There are no limitations but the space on your hard disk for recording videos.</p>
<p>I hope the Taksi team decides to integrate audio recording to their application, this seems to be the only thing that is missing to make it a great alternative to Fraps.</p>

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