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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: 5

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

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

How To Record Internet Radio With AIMP2

Regular readers already know that I recently switched from using XMPlay to AIMP2 which provides the better total package. One of the interesting functions of AIMP2 is to record Internet radio (yes XMPlay can do that as well). It took a while to find out how this function could be enabled in the player and [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 13th, 2008
  • Comments: 16

Installing Winamp Plugins In AIMP

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 [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, software

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Jul 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Amarok 2.0 is Ready

Some of you will remember my post a little while back about favorite music players. For most people on Linux, Amarok rules hands down. In fact, Amarok has gained a reputation as ‘the player’ and made a lot of Windows users sit up and take notice, myself included.
The developers at Amarok have been working [...]

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Categories: Linux, Music and Video, software

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