Music and Video

The music and video industries are massive, and there’s plenty of online resources for enjoying them. In this section, we’ll cover various applications for downloading or streaming, the latest brand or tech news, and managing your huge collections.

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Play movies backwards with Video Time Reversal

Video Time Reversal 2 is a specialized video conversion program for the Windows operating system that enables you to convert video files so that they run backwards. From Led Zeppelin to the […]

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Want 1080p playback on Netflix? Don't use Firefox or Chrome

Netflix is without doubt a very popular service that allows you to watch TV shows and movies by streaming them to devices you are using. The service is a lot cheaper than […]

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Netflix: one step closer to a global TV network

Netflix announced yesterday that it launches it services globally yesterday offering it to more than 190 countries adding 130 new countries in the process. While that is still not all countries of […]

New Winamp in Early 2016, but don't get your hopes up

A former Winamp employee revealed on the official Winamp forum that a new version of the popular music player will be released in early 2016. It looked like Winamp would be a […]

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Web unblocker Proxmate reveals subscription costs

Proxmate, the web unblocking service that enables you to access geo-restricted content on the Internet, revealed the service's subscription costs on the newly launched website. The service, which was provided for free […]

Winamp: Vivendi becomes major Radionomy Stakeholder

The never ending Winamp story continues. AOL, the then-owner of Winamp announced back in 2013 that it would shut down the platform and software but changed those plans in early 2014 by […]

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AIMP 4.0 final for Windows is out

The developers of the popular audio player AIMP have released AIMP 4.0 final after pushing out four beta releases and three release candidate builds of the program. AIMP 4.0 is a major […]

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Yahoo Video Guide: search for movies and TV shows across streaming services

Yahoo Video Guide is a new application for Android and iOS that provides you with the means to browse and search movies and TV shows across streaming, rental and shopping services in […]

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Tunlr first look: watch TV worldwide on the Internet

There is certainly no shortage when it comes to solutions to watching Internet TV that you are blocked from accessing because of your geographical location in the world. The three main solutions […]

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Why fragmentation ruins the TV streaming experience

For a brief moment, a couple of years ago, it seemed as if established media companies understood the Internet for the first time. Customers had been battling with companies over restrictions, availability […]

YouTube Red mobile app

Would you pay $9.99 per month for an ad-free YouTube?

Google revealed the much-anticipated subscription service YouTube Red official at an event in Los Angeles today. YouTube Red, which will launch officially on October 28, will be a subscription-based service that provides […]

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Browser Popcorn: Popcorn Time as a web service

The free application Popcorn Time made big waves when it was first released. Depending on who you'd ask, it was either the future of watching content on the Internet or yet another […]

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Paramount's Vault on YouTube brings you dozens of classic movies

While YouTube always had its fair share of movies that you could watch on site if you knew how to find them, the selection of movies from official sources has increased significantly […]

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Twitch fires back at YouTube: video uploads incoming

After Google failed to acquire the streaming service Twitch it began to implement, update and release streaming features on the company's own YouTube video platform. While YouTube is not there yet when […]

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Convert and shrink multiple videos to mp4 with Deepnut

Video files can have extreme sizes depending on formats, resolution and quality settings. If you have ever captured a game video of a game running in 1920x1080 in 30 or 60 fps, […]

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KMPlayer 4.0 ships with minor improvements

Media players, there are so many out there for Windows that it is nearly impossible to compare them all to find out which is best. To name a few popular ones, there […]

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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and others partner-up to create next-gen video formats

A conglomerate of streaming media providers, web browser makers and hardware manufacturers have partnered up to create next generation royalty free video formats. The member list reads like the Who is Who […]

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Spotify tries to clarify its new terms without scaring away customers

Music streaming service Spotify recently announced it would be changing its terms of service and stressed it would be better. However, what followed apparently scared users and now the company is trying to […]

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Baboom Music Streaming launches: focus on independent artists

When you launch a music streaming service these days, you need to distinguish yourself from established and competing services to survive. Most services offer similar functionality, millions of songs to play, web, […]

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First look at AIMP 4.00

AIMP is a popular audio player for the Windows operating system that ships with an impressive feature set and a plugin system to extend its functionality further. The developers of the music […]

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VLC Media Player for Windows updated

VLC Media Player is one of the most popular all-in-one players for Windows. It is available as a desktop program but also as an app in Windows Store on Windows 8.1 and […]

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The Petrucci Music Library is classical music heaven

If you like classical music, then you may want to pay a visit to Petrucci's Music Library as it is one of the greatest free classical music resources the Internet has to […]

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Google launches free ad-supported radio on Google Play in the US

Google announced yesterday that it has launched a new service on Google Play that brings ad-supported radio to Google users from the US. There is certainly no shortage when it comes to […]

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How to convert media to audio with AIMP3

AIMP3 is an audio player for Windows that supports the conversion of video and audio files to audio formats among other things. The program's audio converter is quite powerful as it supports […]

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10 StreamWriter tips to get the most out of the radio recorder

StreamWriter is an excellent program for Windows to record Internet radio stations. We have followed the development of the program ever since it was released and covered several of the program's major […]

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How to disable auto-playing Flash and HTML5 videos

If I had to rate annoying things that I encounter on the Internet on a scale, auto-playing videos would certainly make it to the top of the list, especially if they are […]

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Play music from various Internet sites with a single music player

If you like to listen to music you have probably noticed already that the Internet is a treasure trove in this regard. Music is posted in audio or video form on many […]

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Display video thumbnails for popular file types in Windows Explorer

The default file browser of the Windows operating system, Windows Explorer (or File Explorer if you are using Windows 8 or newer), supports several display formats for files. I prefer the details […]

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Google discontinues Youtube's Collections feature

Google just announced that it will discontinue YouTube's Collections feature on May 20, 2015. Collections allow you to group subscriptions on YouTube into different categories. For instance, you could create a music […]

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Reddit TV: the best YouTube videos non-stop

If there is one thing that Google could improve on YouTube it is making it easier to discover new interesting videos on the site. Sure, you get recommended videos when you search […]

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TestTube lets you join experiments on YouTube

TestTube is a new experimental page on YouTube that lists some of the experimental new features that Google is currently testing on the site. Google likes to test new features in so-called […]

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Top alternatives for Windows Media Center

Now that Microsoft confirmed that Windows Media Center won't be part of Windows 10, it is time to look at suitable alternatives for the build in program. Microsoft called Windows Media Center […]

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Need a Grooveshark alternative? NetEase Music may be it

So Grooveshark had to shut down after battling it out in courts for years and continuing operations in the meantime. With the site down, existing users may take the suggestions into account […]

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Grooveshark shuts down

The popular music service Grooveshark is no more. An announcement was posted on the service's frontpage that explains the reasoning behind the decision. We have followed Grooveshark ever since it was launched […]

MusicBee review: the ultimate music player?

MusicBee made it in the top 20 of programs that Ghacks readers cannot live without. Reason enough to check it out and review it here on the site as I have not […]

tomahawk

Tomahawk is a powerful music player with charts and much more

Tomahawk is a powerful, cross-platform music player that you can link to various free and commercial online music streaming services among other things. The player's plugin system is introduced right on first […]

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How to activate YouTube's transparent player design

Changes on YouTube are not rolled out to all users at once. Google tests them on the live site after testing them internally by enabling them for a fraction of the site's […]

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That i icon on YouTube? That's the new Cards feature

If you have watched a YouTube video lately you may have noticed an i icon appear in the top right corner on the site like on this video here. This is YouTube's […]

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VLC 2.2.0 update improves extension handling

VLC Media Player is one of the two media players that I install on every Windows PC that I work on (the other is SMPlayer). It is a great media player that […]

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Imgur launches Video to Gif service

Animated Gifs seem to be everywhere these days. You find them posted on forums, on social networking sites, in chat messages, and even sites like YouTube have started to experiment with the […]


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