Following a “Blessed nightly build” which in my testing’s was unusable, the Songbird developers have released Songbird 0.7 Refresh Candidate 1, which I have been able try out, and have been very impressed by. I continue to use Windows Media Player and Media Monkey for my music collection management, but I watch progress on Songbird [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Winamp has been one of the applications in the past that belonged to a set of software programs that I installed automatically after setting up a new operating system. This has changed in the last two years because I did switch from Winamp to XMPlay which is only using half of the resources that Winamp [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Music Assistant is a great tool that can help musicians doing two things that they probably do on a daily basis. The first is helping them tune their instrument while the second is to act as a metronome. The Metronome part is easily explained. The musician picks a tempo like Allegro or Moderato and has [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Favtape has received some news coverage lately and basically everything that can be said has been said about this website where users can share their favorited and bookmarked songs of their Last.fm and Pandora accounts. Well the service got updated a while ago and is now displaying the top songs of every year from 1901 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

It has been nearly two years since I took the last look at the Winamp iPod plugin which has gone a long way since then. Now every iPod generation and edition is supported by the plugin which gives Winamp users the option to manage their iPod from the Winamp Media Library. Like iTunes the Winamp [...]

Categories: iPod, Software, Windows

DRM (Digital Rights Management) is slowly getting out of company executive heads and several stores are successfully selling music that is DRM free. That’s a good thing for the customer who can transfer the songs that he bought to other devices and even burn them on CD if he likes. We are however not at [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Security

I’m usually very picky when it comes to posting links that offer free music but this one is definitely to good to keep for myself. Nuclear Blast is a Record Label that was founded in Germany and focuses on certain variants of Metal including Grindcore, Blackmetal and Melodic Death Metal and Hardcore Punk. Some popular [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Back in the days when the Internet was just a series of tubes music, movie and book fans had to get their recommendations from magazines, friends and the guy in the store that sold them the stuff. Recommendations on today’s Internet are a big thing. They are highly popular with users and companies alike. Users [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video, The Web

Reble is a software for Windows that is providing a group of friends access to their combined music collection over the Internet. Think of a buddy system from an Instant Messenger with the difference that everyone can share music folders from their hard disks that every other friend in the friend list can access. The [...]

Categories: Software, Windows