AIMP2 has been my favorite software music player for some time. It replaced several tools that I have used throughout the years, from Winamp Lite over XMPlay to iTunes. AIMP2 had a lot to offer: It was compatible with most music formats out of the box and lightweight enough for even low end PC systems. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Nautilus is one versatile file manager. The ability to add actions (with the help of Nautilus Actions) makes Nautils’ ability seemingly endless. I have covered adding actions to Nautilus before (see my article “Add actions to extend Nautilus functionality“). That article covered an earlier version of Nautilus Actions. Now that this tool has matured quite [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I have a number of large music directories on numerous drives. The files in these directories have been added (over the years) from various sources. The biggest problem with my collections is the tags on the files aren’t all correct. Because of this, some music players won’t list the information for the file which means [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Music Industry, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Music and Video, Open Source, Software, Tools

If you look around and ask your friends which media player they prefer you will most likely come up with many different answers. Winamp, Windows Media Player and iTunes will surely be on the top of the list with lesser known players mentioned by some of the friends. Most are perfectly happy that they can [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Most users would probably agree that Apple’s iTunes software is not a lightweight application. To the contrary. The application is huge and some will see it as an overkill if you only want to transfer music from and to an iPod. That’s where iTunes software alternatives come into play. Froddle Pod is such an iTunes [...]

Categories: iPod, Software, Windows

Adam Pash is a Senior Editor at Lifehacker and also someone who likes to code. His latest gorgeous application is a Greasemonkey script called Google Inline MP3 Player which, once installed, displays a [Play] link next to each mp3 link on a website. A click on that Play link embeds an inline mp3 player, more [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Music and Video

Mix2Stix was primarily designed to copy random mp3 files from the hard drive to an USB stick or mp3 player to ease the pain of selecting the music manually. It provides a one click solution with a few comfort functions which I will explain later in this article. The user has to set four parameters [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Tools

If you want to use iTunes Apple wants to make you believe that you need an iPod or iPhone. That’s not the complete truth and there are numerous ways to use iTunes with other mp3 players and even mobile phones or handhelds like the PSP. Before I explain the how I would like to talk [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows