The latest installments of Windows Media Player add two context menu entries to some folders in Windows Explorer. The options that are added are “play with Windows Media Player” and “Add to Windows Media Player List”. Users who regularly work with Windows Media Player might want to add these context menu entries to all of [...]
Sopcast Internet TV Filter For Windows Media Player
Sopcast is a free Internet TV client that can be used by users worldwide to watch TV on their computer system. Most of the TV stations that get broadcast by Sopcast are in Chinese language. They are still very popular in many other countries as these channels tend to show live sports events that might [...]
AutoLyrix Automatically Displays Lyrics And Album Art
AutoLyrix is a small cross-plattform software program that can automatically identify the song that is playing in a media player to display the lyrics and album art of it. Compatibility seems to have been of utmost importance to the developers of the software. AutoLyrix is able to detect songs in dozen of music players including [...]
Windows Media Player CD-Text
CD-Text stores additional information on a audio CD. The information consist usually of the album, name, song name, track info and artist. Many computer music players like Winamp or MediaMonkey can read CD-Text and display the information. Instead of playing track 1 the user would actually see the track name and related information.
Windows Media Player [...]
Watch CNN Live
Here is a quick tip send in by Alex who is a regular reader and commenter here at Ghacks. If you want to watch CNN live and all other methods and applications do not seem to work right now you might want to try the following easy method providing that you have access to a [...]
Windows Media Player Light
Whenever Microsoft sends out a new version of their upcoming operating system Windows 7 to their partners they can be sure that someone will post information about it soon thereafter. Many screenshots of features of the new Windows 7 client have been posted a day ago which showed some of the new features and design [...]
The Trouble with Nokia’s Music Service
Mobile phone giant Nokia is looking for a foothold into the music distribution business. To that end, Nokia has introduced an online music service called the Nokia Music Store in Australia. Their aim is to provide a service that will take on Apple’s iTunes and win.
There’s nothing wrong in wanting to beat iTunes. However, the [...]
