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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source

YouTube isn’t just for watching videos. A lot of times you can find great music in the form of old songs that aren’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 [...]

Categories: Cool, Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

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. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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’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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

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.

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows