I have been trying to get Teen Spirit to work for quite some time but never succeeded. The developers have in the meantime renamed their application to Jaangle and surprise, surprise: the music player does not crash anymore on my computer system. Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to music players from [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Japanese mobile phone developers, companies and the recording industry of Japan are in talks currently to agree on new anti-piracy measures to fight music piracy in Japan according to the Financial Times. The proposed solution offered by the recording industry suggest digital rights management to be build into every mobile phone sold in Japan. The [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Security

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

Windows Media Player and Winamp are two of the most popular media players that come with a large feature set that include playing various video and audio formats or media management capabilities. Users who want to transfer their multimedia collection from Windows Media Player to Winamp now have the possibility to automate the process with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

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Microsoft and Reverbnation are currently running a promotion that is offering 1000 songs for free download. The songs are available in mp3 and m4a format and can be downloaded directly from one of the websites the promotion is running on. This includes the Windows Myspace page and a special Windows directory at Reverbnation. You find [...]

Categories: Music and Video

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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The opinion on the quality of digital music can differ widely depending on the personal taste. Some users are perfectly happy with music that has been encoded with 128 Kbps or even less while others swear on lossless music codecs. The perception of the individual is the most important factor although others might play a [...]

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 [...]

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