First Look at Spotify Lite a resource-friendly Spotify app
So-called lite apps are quite en vogue right now. Lite apps are designed for low-end mobile devices or regions with slow Internet speeds. The apps are streamlined, use less resources and work […]
A look at mpv.net, a mpv frontend with Everything integration
Mpv.net is a frontend for the popular cross-platform media player mpv that features the same great media format support and adds unique features and improvements on top of that. Interested users may […]
VLC Media Player 3.0.7 released: security updates and improvements
A new version of the cross-platform multimedia application VLC Media Player hast been released today. VLC Media Player 3.0.7 is a minor update that fixes security issues and includes some improvements and […]
IrfanView 4.53 Image Viewer released
IrfanView is one of the most advanced image viewers that is available for Windows. IrfanView 4.53 was released last week; it is the first release of the program in 2019 and one […]
PCRADIO Internet Radio app that works with low speed Internet
Mobile users have several options when it comes to listening to Internet Radio on their devices. Some like to stream directly from the Radio station's website, others prefer music apps with radio […]
Counterpoint: Why I’m keeping my subscription services
Recently my colleague, Martin Brinkmann, wrote why he was getting rid of streaming services. That’s fine, he’s entitled to do what he wants, and if he doesn’t watch them, then, by all […]
2019: the year I dropped all entertainment subscription plans
This is somewhat of a personal story but it is probably one that is of interest to many out there. For the past couple of years, I had Netflix and Amazon Prime […]
A preview of VLC Media Player 4.0
VLC Media Player 3.0 was released in 2018; the non-profit organization that is behind the program, VideoLAN, revealed information about the upcoming VLC Media Player 4.0 recently in a presentation at FOSDEM […]
Amiga Music Tracker and Player in JavaScript
BASSOON Tracker is a free web application that gives you full control over an Amiga music tracker and player. The Commodore Amiga, the successor of the Commodore C-64 home computer, was a […]
Kodi 18.0 Final has been released
Kodi 18.0 has been released. The new version of the media center is already available on the official download page on the project website. Kodi is one of our top Windows Media Center […]
Changes to Windows Media Center and Player Metadata service
Microsoft revealed plans on Friday to turn off the metadata service for certain media product and operating system combinations. The company maintains two media products right now that ship with various versions […]
Nuclear is a free Spotify alternative for the desktop
Nuclear is a free Electron-based program for desktop operating systems such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X to stream music from popular free sources on the Internet. The music app is […]
Winamp Community Update Project releases first Winamp Preview
WACUP -- the Winamp Community Update Project -- released a preview version of the music player to the public yesterday. WACUP is a third-party modified version of the music player Winamp that […]
How to block endscreen video recommendations on YouTube
Whenever playback of a video on YouTube ends or is about to end, video recommendations may be displayed; these recommendations are based on the viewing history and display thumbnails of videos picked […]
VLC Media Player 3.0.5 is out
VideoLAN released VLC Media Player 3.0.5 to the Stable channel earlier today. The new version of the cross-platform media player is a bug fix update for the most part; it fixes minor […]
Handbrake 1.2.0 video transcoder released
Handbrake 1.2.0 is the latest version of the cross-platform open source video transcoder. The new version is available for all supported operating systems -- Windows, Linux and Mac OS X -- and […]
Remove Backgrounds from Photos automatically
Remove.bg is a new free online service that you may use to remove the background of photos automatically that you upload to the service. Sometimes, you may want to remove background noise […]
YouTube removed 7.8 million videos and 224 million comments in Q3 2018
Google owned YouTube published the YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement report for the third quarter of 2018 yesterday. The report highlights that YouTube removed 7.8 million videos, 224 million comments, and 1.6 million […]
TV and Movie streaming is heading in the wrong direction
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Now, YouTube TV, and many others; soon, Disney's entry into the market with its own service while other companies consider entering the TV and movie streaming […]
Paint.net 4.1.5 released with performance improvements
The developer of the image editor Paint.net released version 4.1.5 of the application for Microsoft's Windows operating system today. The new version of Paint.net is available on the Microsoft Store and as […]
YouTube now with free ad-supported blockbuster movies
Most YouTube users don't associate the site with blockbuster movies, probably, even though it is possible to rent movies on the site just as it is possible to do the same on […]
How to download all Flickr Photos
SmugMug, the new owner of Flickr, announced plans recently to limit free accounts to 1000 photos or videos on the site instead of the previously used threshold of 1 Terabyte of storage […]
Flickr limits free version to 1000 photos
Flickr announced plans to limit free accounts of the photo community severely in the coming months. The photo hosting service offered 1 Terabyte of photo storage to free users since 2013. Yahoo, […]
SoundFixer fixes sound issues on YouTube
SoundFixer is an extension for the Firefox web browser that attempts to fix sound related issues on YouTube and select other sites with audio. Internet users who watch videos with audio on […]
Radionomy plans to release a completely new Winamp version next year
Radionomy, the company that bought the Winamp application, web services, and technology from AOL in 2014, revealed that it is working on a brand new version of Winamp that it plans to […]
A look at a preview of the music player Dopamine 2.0
The developer of the music player Dopamine work on the next major release, Dopamine 2.0, at the time of writing. He released two previews of Dopamine 2.0 so far and we are […]
Internet Archive releases Winamp Skins Collection
The Internet Archive published a huge collection of skins for the media player Winamp the other day which anyone may browse and download. Winamp is still a popular media player despite the […]
YouTube Miniplayer first look
YouTube Miniplayer is a new YouTube feature on the desktop that users of the video streaming site may activate to play videos in a smaller player on the page. Eagle-eyed YouTube users […]
Winamp 5.8 Beta leak appears on the Web
A beta version of the upcoming Winamp 5.8 media player found its way to the darker side of the Web where it is now being distributed heavily. Winamp, which was once a […]
How to enable AV1 support on YouTube
AV1 is a new media codec that is being integrated into various web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome at the moment. The codec is developed by a consortium of […]
fmedia is a lightweight audio player, recorder and converter
The cross-platform program fmedia (fast media player) is an audio file player, recorder and converter. All modern computer operating systems come with at least one program or app to playback media files. […]
Skype update introduces call recording
Users of Microsoft's Skype messaging application for desktop and mobile operating systems can use a new call recording feature that Microsoft built into the application recently. Call recording functionality has been a […]
YouTube pushing non-skippable ads
YouTube revealed in a new video for content creators recently that it plans to push unskippable video ads on the video hosting site. The video "Want to earn more money from ad […]
GIMP 2.10.6 launches with major improvements
A new version of the popular cross-platform image editor GIMP was released yesterday. GIMP 2.10.6 features a number of important changes and improvements including new filters and other enhancements. While the new […]
Add Support for Flac, Ogg and other formats to Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a native multimedia player that is available in all versions of Windows that Microsoft supports. While Microsoft did create special editions for use in the European Union and […]
Netflix Smart Downloads explained
Smart Downloads is a new Netflix feature that makes available the next episode of a TV show on your devices and deletes the watched episode. Netflix is available for all sorts of […]
Netflix tests Ultra plan
Customers of the streaming service Netflix can choose between three plans right now: basic, standard, and premium. The plans determine the quality of the streams, the number of screens customers can watch […]
How to repeat (loop) YouTube Videos automatically
If you like a particular video on YouTube very much, you may want to play it over and over again using some sort of repeat functionality. Problem is, most users don't know […]
How to watch YouTube videos on your desktop (without browser)
You have plenty of options when it comes to watching videos hosted on YouTube: you can use a web browser, an application on mobile devices, or watch the videos on your Television. […]
Why you should always use YouTube's Privacy-Enhanced Mode
YouTube launched a new feature on the site recently that it called Privacy-Enhanced Mode. You find the option when you open the embed options on the site to embed video code on […]
