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DJ Genius: Simple Media Player & Tag Editor With Online Radio

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iTunes has become the heart and soul of many music lovers around the globe, due to its support for all iOS devices and an elegant GUI. However because of its many features and heavy UI, it also kicks down your system performance. So, if you are looking for a trimmed down version of iTunes, which also supports sufficient amount of video formats, then try out DJ Genius. It is a simple, yet elegant media player and organizer which offers a simple, iTunes-like UI. The application lets you listen to your favorite songs either from your local music library or online radio. It features a tag editor for adding and editing metadata. Just like iTunes, it provides separate Music, Movie and Radio libraries, comes packed with Twitter integration and an audio recorder. Additionally, there is a DJ Store section of the app that you can set to open a music store of your choice. Keeping the aforementioned features in mind, one could say that DJ Genius is a very limited, lightweight and customizable iTunes. Details to follow. Read More

TunesTEXT: View & Edit Lyrics Of iTunes Tracks And Embed Them Into Songs [Mac]

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At AddictiveTips, we all love the desktop widgets for iTunes that let us play/pause tracks and navigate through the iTunes Movies and Music library without having to bring up the main interface. Earlier, we’ve featured some applications that provide an on-screen controller for iTunes myTunesConrol, Skip Tunes, You Control, Bowtie, just to name a few. This time around we have a feature-rich dashboard widget for iTunes called TunesTEXT, which has been designed to not only control iTunes, but also show and embed lyrics of the songs you play from Music library. In contrast to previously featured app that only displays the lyrics of the songs, this widget also embeds the lyrics into tracks’ metadata, so that you can read the lyrics of the songs on your iPod. Additionally, it lets you change the font size and set lyrics text-related settings according to your preferences. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

iConvert: Convert Videos, Extract Audio & Send Them To iTunes [Mac]

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When it comes to converting videos into iOS devices’ compatible format, there are numerous applications available at your disposal, but unfortunately, only a few media conversion utilities offer an easy way of converting videos into different formats. The video converters require setting video size and resolution, along with video and audio parameters to convert and optimize video for iOS devices. However, if you’ve been looking for a tool that can not only convert videos into iOS devices’ supported formats, but also send converted video to iTunes, then give iConvert a shot. The application has been designed keeping the need of quickly converting videos and synchronizing them with iOS devices in mind. It has the ability to not only convert videos for iPhone, iPod and iPad, but also extract audio from video and send it to iTunes Music Library. Read More

View Track & Artist Notification On iTunes Dock Icon In Mac [Tip]

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You would have undoubtedly come across a lot of apps that allow you to control iTunes from the Menu bar, and we’ve certainly covered our fair share of them. What most of these apps have in common, is that the ones displaying the song & artist name on the menu bar either do so as ticker, or take up a lot of space on the bar itself. As far as seeing the which song is playing goes, this simple tip lets you view the name of the song and the artist on the iTunes Dock icon. Somewhat similar to viewing the number of unread messages on the Mail icon, this little tweak will show a small popup whenever the song changes, and splash the name of the one that is currently playing. Read More

[Giveaway] Decipher TextMessage: Save iPhone SMS & iMessage Threads To PC

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Back in the days of using Symbian ‘smartphones’, before threaded messaging perhaps even existed, I was a huge fan of text messaging. The biggest bummer than dumb phones posed at that time, at least from my point of view, was their limited message memory. When I got my hands on my first iPhone, the biggest relief was the fact that it was able to store virtually unlimited number of messages. Then, over time, the SMS craze diminished, until text messages remained only a form of communication that my phone was capable of doing – until recently. For some reason, I needed to save some messages off my iPhone, and that’s when I realized there was no way to do it (well, no easy way, at least). The hard way involved manipulating the sqlite database that stores iPhone’s messaging threads manually, while the easy way required shedding off some bucks for outstanding results. Decipher TextMessage is one such cross-platform paid application that will allow you to view and export all your iPhone’s messaging threads (SMS, MMS and iMessage) as text or HTML files and save locally, along with a few other, highly useful options, such as recovering deleted messages. Read More

Flutter: Play/Pause iTunes Or Spotify With Hand Gestures & Webcam [Mac]

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Whether you’re crazy about technology or not, you may probably know that sending commands to your computer via brain signals is quite possibly the coolest thing to do (in addition to owning a flying car). While that isn’t possible just yet, what you can do is send signals to your Mac by simple hand gestures that are read through your webcam. Flutter is a free Mac app that lets you just that. Don’t confuse these hand gestures with the same ones you use to swipe through desktop spaces or access mission control. Flutter reads your actions via your webcam. For now, it only lets you pause and play iTunes or Spotify by simply holding up your hand to the camera. Read More

Clicker: Find Shows/ Episodes On Hulu, Amazon, Netflix & iTunes [Chrome]

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Reading a movie review and wondering if it’s available on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, iTunes or anywhere else online? Thousands of episodes from various shows and seasons, mixed among random clips and videos, can be found on different websites. With the massive amount of choices online, finding a show or an episode of your favorite season to watch online can be pain. Clicker, a Chrome extension, is a complete guide to internet television that makes it simple for you to find the right show at the right place. Clicker basically lets you find movie information, episodes and videos that are available online on various popular websites, such as Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and more. It integrates all these sources into one slick interface, so you can easily discover what's available to watch online. Read More

Automatically Add All Media Files To iTunes Library On Mac [Tip]

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If you often download videos and music files instead of purchasing them in iTunes, you have to then manually add them to Apple's native multimedia behemoth. It isn’t difficult, but if you keep downloading media and neglect adding it to iTunes, you get clutter, and lots of it. A much simpler way of doing so is by pasting your media files directly to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. By adding files directly to this folder, iTunes indexes them and they appear in their respective category when you launch the software. Bear in mind that this means the file is copied to iTunes, and not just indexed at its original location. Read More

iTunes Hotkeys: Global Shortcuts For Play/Pause, Next & Previous Track

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iTunes is, hands down, one of the most popular media players around. Its elegant and intuitive interface, and iOS integration has lead it to be used by millions of people. Even though, the application is awesome in every way, it still lacks on of the most important feature - support for global hotkeys. One has to use third-party apps to implement hotkey support for volume adjust, playback, playlist navigation and use other supported features. A couple of days ago, we covered iTunesInfo, an iTunes controller that allows you to configure global hotkeys to perform different actions, such as Play, Pause, Stop, Adjust Volume, Shuffle Playlist etc. It is no doubt, quite a big program with lots of options to adjust hotkeys and view song information in notification window. However, if you are looking for a simple software that enables you to change the track and play/pause music without confusing you with a lot of options, and is also very light weight, then try iTunes Hotkeys. This open source application for Windows interacts with iTunes and allows you to set custom hotkeys to switch to the next or previous song in the playlist and play/pause the currently playing track. More on iTunes Hotkeys after the break. Read More

iTunesInfo: Create Global Hotkeys For Various iTunes Actions

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If you’re one of those audiophiles, who use iTunes as a primary media player for managing their music library, then you must have noticed that it doesn't support global hotkeys to adjust volume and navigate between items in playlist. For this reason, one has to bring up iTunes window to change the track, shuffle playlist, adjust volume etc. We have covered a few applications in the past to solve this problem, such as iHK or iTuneskeys. Today, we stumbled across another powerful iTunes controller called iTunes Info. It is a standalone, portable utility that lets you configure global hotkeys to perform different iTunes actions like Play, Pause, Stop, adjust volume, shuffle playlist, toggle mute, rate & navigate between tracks and more. Moreover, it sends desktop notification, which shows specified meta tag information of the current song. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Skip Tunes: Control The Default Music App In Mac From Menu Bar

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If you use iTunes, you are likely to have an app that lets you control iTunes from the menu bar. Either that, or, at some point, you may have tried using one to make using iTunes more convenient. For whatever reason you didn’t stick with the utility you tried, Skip Tunes is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac app store that lets you control music in your default music player. This means it can work for either iTunes, or any other app that you use as your default music player. The app adds play/pause and forward controls to the menu bar, but expands to reveal a complete media player with a seek bar, a shuffle button and a backward and forward button. Skip Tunes itself present a neat interface that Mac lovers like to see in apps. Read More

Seamless: Resume Music/ Podcast On iPhone From You Left It On Mac [Paid]

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The great ting about iTunes is that you can sync your playlists and tracks, so that you have the same music available, no matter what device you’re using. However, what can be rather annoying is that when you leave your Mac and resume listening to your music on your iPhone (for instance), you have to play the song all over again. Not fun! Imagine if you were listening to a podcast and you had to find your place again? Seamless is a Mac app that makes this transition easier, by allowing you to listen to music on your iPhone right where you left it off on your Mac, and vice versa. While the Mac app is free, the iOS app costs $0.99, and totally worth it! Read on to know why. Read More

MultiTunes: Sync Your iPhone With Multiple iTunes Libraries [Cydia]

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Using iTunes can prove to be a nightmare for even the most experienced of users, and many people end up losing all the data on their iOS device, just because they plugged in their iPhone in to a friend’s computer. In addition to that, there are situations when you might need to sync some data from a computer other than the one having your default iTunes library. MultiTunes is an easy-to-use Cydia tweak, which presents a simple solution to the problem just discussed. The best thing about the tweak is that you don’t have to go through a complicated set up before you can sync your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with more than one iTunes libraries at a time. You can think of MultiTunes as a Cydia tweak that will fool any iTunes library into believing that your device is not a guest one on any system. Read More

You Control: Feature Rich iTunes Controller For Mac Menu Bar

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iTunes controllers that sit in your system menu bar aren’t hard to find; you can find both paid and free utilities that will do nothing more than adding media controls and perhaps the song name to the menu bar. The point of these apps is to provide easy access without having to switch back to the iTunes app window, since it can be slow. You Control is a similar Mac app with two great qualities; it is feature rich, and is free. It gives you the usual media controls and song name displayed in the system menu bar, but the menu bar controls give you access to pretty much your entire media collection in iTunes. From the menu bar, you can access favorites, albums, artists, recent tracks and playlists. Controls like play/pause, stop, Next Track, Previous Track, Volume and shuffle can also be used. Read More

Speaktoit Assistant: Worthy Siri Alternative For Android, Now Available On iOS

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The iPhone 4S’ most advertised, and arguably most distinguishing, feature was Siri – the virtual personal assistant that you’d have either come to love or hate, if you’ve been interacting with her. Despite the beta tag that Siri carries, it works pretty smooth, and has been a cause of envy for most iOS users that didn’t have the iPhone 4S. On the jailbreak front, solutions like Spire Siri port piqued a lot of interest, but they remain heavily dependent on a lot of features (jailbroken device, for one, and working iPhone 4S keys for another). Then there have been apps like Dragon Dictation and Dragon Go!, but none really compared to Siri when it came to ease of use. Speaktoit Assistant, however, looks at changing that, and for good. Details past the break. Read More

Apps Explorer: Browse iOS Apps On Your Android Device

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We know that most smartphone apps released these days are most probably available across multiple platforms. If you’re an Android user, there's the Android Market or alternatives such as GetJar and AppBrain to browse for apps, but what if you, for some reason, wanted to find out whether your favorite Android apps also exist on the iTunes App Store without having to use your desktop computer's browser? Enter iTunes App Store Explorer Apps Explorer – a free and simple to use Android app that lets you explore Apple’s app repository for iOS-powered devices from your Android device. Apart from searching the iTunes App Store for required apps, you can also explore it by various categories including price, country, language, ranking and genre. The app is particularly handy for developers, beta testers and app reviewers who do not own an iDevice, but regularly find the need to have information pertaining to certain iOS apps on hand. Read More

Use Global Hotkeys To Control iTunes With iTuneskeys

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iTunes is a powerful media player, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital media files on a computer. It is also used for complete management and related operations for iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. iTunes can also connect to the iTunes Store, which allows users to purchase and download music, music videos, TV Shows, audio books, games, ringtones and more. Since it’s inception in 2001, it has become one of the most popular media apps for Mac, Windows and smartphone users. iTunesKeys is a system-tray utility, which lets you control iTunes with global hotkeys or via the tray icon menu, which runs in the background. You can control your playback actions, such as play, previous track, play, pause, stop, next, rewind and fast forward, adjust volume and rate items. You can even create a customized rating system for your tracks. iTunesKeys provides display track info on song change, including artwork, launches iTunes automatically and closes it at exit. Read More

What’s New In iBooks 2 & How To Get It For iPhone, iPod touch & iPad

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The blogosphere is abuzz with iBooks 2, after Apple announced the exciting new platform yesterday at their education event in New York. What many people have been asking around so far, is how to get the new iBooks 2 app. Hence, I aim to clear up a few confusions with respect to iBooks 2 in this post, and help you better understand what iBooks 2 offers in terms of improvements and new features. Read More

Apple’s iTunes U Brings Free Study Material To Students, Especially College Goers [iOS]

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A large contingent of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users consists of school and college students. An iPad can really be useful in a classroom, with the amount of educational apps and other supporting matter available in the iTunes App Store. Apple has now taken another step in the right direction to help students, by releasing the new iOS app, iTunes U. Most course books and other relevant study matter, specially for college students, doesn’t come cheap, so this app is the perfect place to find free content related to just about any course. Although iBooks already exists, and offers a nice collection of books, but it is still nice to have an app that is focused solely on books for higher studies and promotes serious education. Read More

notpod: Synchronize Any Portable Audio Player With iTunes

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iTunes is a media manager for iDevices, and thus allows syncing Library items with only iPod, iPhone, and iPad. If you own a non-iPod portable audio player, and want to synchronize it with iTunes Music Library, have a look at Notpod. It’s a miniscule application that lets you synchronize any type of portable audio player with iTunes library without having to tweak the basic structure of iTunes Music Library.xml file. The application disguises your non-iPod music player as iTunes compatible device, and then adds it to iTunes Devices section, letting you synchronize Music Library with specified folder of your portable audio player. Read More