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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Songbird 1.2

The music manager and player Songbird has been released in version 1.2 recently. Several new and interesting features have been added to the program including the ability to sync the music library with Apple’s iTunes software, Last.fm radio support or the automatic organization of all music files on a computer system.
Songbird is able to import [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 29th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Display Album Covers With CD Art Display

CD Art Display is an interesting application that can display music album covers on the computer desktop independently from the music player. It is compatible with a wide variety of music players including iTunes, Winamp, Foobar, Windows Media Player.
The program will automatically display the covers of the currently playing song in its interface. Next to [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Billy a simple but awesome music player

We had a look at how you use your medial player not long ago and I’ve taken a look at some of the ones you mentioned  I particularly liked Billy (thanks for the tip Xaro), a no-frills (but also no complications) music player, which does exactly what I want it to do. Play my music [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Listen To Music Online With Vastfm

Vastfm provides an interesting free of charge service that allows users to listen music online; Lots of music to be precise. The website uses mashups to provide their content as their servers are only hosting a few lines of code that power the site. What Vastfm is doing is to pull the selected artist’s discography [...]

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Categories: Cool, Music and Video, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Control iTunes Playback With Shortcuts

If you like to listen to music in iTunes you might have noticed that iTunes does not provide keyboard shortcuts to control the playback when iTunes is running in the background. Other music players like Winamp or AIMP provide that feature which might be interesting for many users.
The developer of iTunes Media Keys released a [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 13

XBMC Media Center Final

The final version of the XBMC has been out for a while now. We covered an alpha release back in August and it is time to check on the final release and promote the product further. It may sound a bit biased but I’m using the XBMC for years on my old modded Microsoft Xbox [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, software

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