Grooveshark is a popular online music streaming service based in the United States. The service is currently not restricted to users from the United States unlike comparable services that are. Users can search for and play music, create playlists or tune into one of the available genre themed radio stations. Most of the music on [...]

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It’s long been rumoured that Apple will launch a streaming music service to rival (erm… their rival) Spotify.  Now the company is talking up “an exciting announcement from iTunes” tomorrow with the headline “Tomorrow is just another day, that you’ll never forget”. Nobody knows that the annoucement will be but the concensus on the web, [...]

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Apple has reportedly been in talks recently with senior executives at the major record labels about offering a music subscription service through the iTunes store according to Engadget. The deal is reported to offer $10 to $15 monthly subscriptions what would offer unlimited music but with pricing that would be tiered depending on how much [...]

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A hard drive crash can put a big dent into a computer user’s music and video collection, if there are no backups. Sometimes though there are other possibilities on how to recover a music and video collection after a crash. One of those options is if part or all of the collection has been transferred [...]

Categories: Apple, iPhone, iPod, Music and Video

There are heaps of music players for the Windows operating system. Even if you discount all media players that support music as well, you are left with hundreds of free players for the operating system. This overview takes a look at some of the more popular choices when it comes to music players. Before we [...]

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Shoutcast is a popular music radio directory owned by AOL. It offers an efficient way to find radio stations based on genre and other parameters such as bitrate or compression. Shoutcast made the news recently when it was removed by the developers of the popular media player VLC from their application. You can read up [...]

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If you are like me you probably have a big music collection on your PC. Mine was created by ripping music CDs, recording streaming Internet radio and downloading music from the Internet, all perfectly legal of course. It is likely that duplicate music files exist in large music collections that have been build from different [...]

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If you haven’t experienced Pandora radio you don’t know what you’re missing. Pandora can stream music to your web browser specifically tuned to your tastes. Imagine having that ability right on your desktop – always at your fingertips? Pretty cool eh? Well as of now there is no stand alone Pandora client for Linux nor [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Music and Video, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Ripping music CDs is still something that many computer users do from time to time even with declining music CD sales. Audiograbber is a CD ripping software for Windows that offers a comparable functionality to all time favorite applications for that task like CDex or BonkEnc. It can be used to easily load audio CDs, [...]

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