There are quite a few ways to listen to music online. Users can listen to Internet Radio, specialized websites like Last.fm, video portals or music search engines to do so. Semsix adds another possibility to the possibilities. The service offers music searches for artists, albums or individual song titles in its interface. The first difference [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Many software developers are beginning to add support for new features that Microsoft added to their upcoming operating system Windows 7. One of the major points of interest for developers is the new taskbar that is introduced in Windows 7. The taskbar in Windows 7 offers a new feature called jumplists which allow users to [...]

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

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tools

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 [...]

Categories: Cool, Music and Video, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software