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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Feb 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 27

Spotify: Music legally on demand

gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here.
Spotify is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently available [...]

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Categories: Mac, Music and Video, Online Services, Windows

  • 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: Jan 8th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Stream Music contained in torrent files

If you do not want to download music from Bittorrent you now have an alternative that might suite you better. You can use the Bitlet Bittorrent Applet to stream the music contained in the torrent to your computer. The applet phrase hints that Java – not Javascript – is required to stream the music from torrent files to your computer.

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Categories: Music and Video, P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2007
  • Comments: 13

Winamp 5.5 lite vs. XMPlay Memory Management

A new beta version of Winamp 5.5 has just been released as usual in a full, pro and lite version. Winamp lite is basically a music player supporting many different audio formats while the other Winamp editions support video playback, cd ripping and an integrated browser to browse sites like Shoutcast.

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Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 21st, 2007
  • Comments: None

Record MP3 Streams with Screamer Radio

I recommended Phonostar some days ago to record mp3 streams of more than 4000 radio stations which had the big disadvantage that it would not add the real filename, title and artist but use a generic name for the saved mp3 stream. Screamer Radio on the other hand uses the meta data that is sent by some radio stations to add those information to the name of the saved mp3 file which makes it easier to get an overview over all downloads.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 14th, 2006
  • Comments: 1

Burn Audio CDs from exotic audio formats

Most burning tools that support the creation of audio CDs support only the most common formats by default. Those formats are normally mp3, wav or wma. Some suits support other formats as well but I never found a burning suit that supported all of the formats that I needed. One way to solve this issue would be to use plugins that would increase the supported formats, one plugin pack for Nero can be downloaded here. (Click on Nero Audio-Plug-Ins..)

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Categories: Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 2nd, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Access 1010 free music albums with Jamendo

Jamendo is a community website that lets you discover a growing collection of currently 1010 free music albums released under Creative Commons using latest p2p technology.That´s right, you are free to download everything using bittorrent. But that´s not all Jamendo is about. They have a very active community that reviews albums, rates and tags them and offers personal recommendations.

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Categories: Cool, Music and Video

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