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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 29th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

MP3 Quality Modifier

The opinion on the quality of digital music can differ widely depending on the personal taste. Some users are perfectly happy with music that has been encoded with 128 Kbps or even less while others swear on lossless music codecs. The perception of the individual is the most important factor although others might play a [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Free Ringtones

The Internet can be an amazing resource for free ringtones. There are technical ways to obtain ringtones by using audio editing software programs or simpler by using ringtone search engines. One of easiest to use is Tonzr, a search engine for free ringtones that finds more than eight million different songs.
The search works by entering [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 10th, 2009
  • Comments: None

iWow makes your music sound ‘wow’

iWOW is perhaps my favourite iTunes plug-in. It makes your sound, whether videos, podcasts or music, feel much more vibrant. To dramatically improve sound, the user must simply choose their form of speakers (surround, laptop speakers, headphones etc), the type of sound and if music its genre. This takes no audophile, but advanced options do [...]

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Categories: Mac, Music and Video, Windows

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Feb 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 25

Spotify: Music legally on demand

gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here.
Spotify is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently available [...]

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Categories: Mac, Music and Video, Online Services, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 18th, 2009
  • Comments: None

ID3 Mass Tagger

There are many excellent tools to tag a music collection. Tools like the excellent mp3 tag can be used to tag an entire collection thoroughly. If you are more a command line junkie who likes to tag music from the command line or build his own scripts to tag his music collection you might like [...]

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Categories: Linux, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Mp3 Packer

Data is usually stored efficiently in mp3 files. This means that it does not make much sense to compress mp3 files further at least if size reduction is the desired result. Compressing a standard mp3 file will usually result in a size reduction of a few Kilobytes which, even if applied to a collection of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Add mp3 support in Fedora 10

One of more frustrating aspects of some modern Linux distributions is that they do not ship with mp3 support rolled in. This is, by design, done because of licensing issues. And granted using the ogg format is a much better solution in the end (as well as a much better sounding format) but for those [...]

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Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

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