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Export All Media Files Sent Or Received In iOS Messages App From One Place

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Just the other day, while testing the tweaks that allow users to attach long videos with their iMessage and MMS, I realized that for anyone who texts a lot, finding media files in the Messages app is a real headache. Even the search feature in the stock Messages app is limited, and only works for parts of threads that have been loaded manually. In this situation, a section maintaining a collection of all media files saved in the Messages app might have been really useful. Since no such feature exists in iOS, the Cydia store has a pretty decent solution up its sleeve. MediaExport is a Cydia app that shows photos and videos saved in all of your message threads. You can then save these files to the camera roll, or share them using the service of your choice. Read More

Turn Your USB Drive Into A Portable Apps Launcher & Media Manager

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Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Windows apps with you and use them wherever you have an access to any Windows PC ? CodySafe is what you’re looking for! It’s a handy portable applications manager that lets you install portable apps on a USB thumb drive or external portable drive. Both the software itself and the downloaded apps are directly installed to your flash drive. In addition, you can carry you favorite media files with you in its pre-configured and well-organized Music, Pictures, Videos and Documents folders. You may also enable the integrated autorun option for CodySafe to automatically launch itself as soon as you plug in the drive. Likewise, the installed apps can be set to auto-execute similarly as well. Read More

SyncLib: Sync And Share Photos, Videos And Music Across Web, Windows & iOS

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Cloud computing is probably one of the finest inventions of the internet.  It’s free, it’s fast and works everywhere. Although quite useful, most cloud services provide you with limited storage, where additional space or unlimited plans being the prerogative of paid accounts. So, if you have got stupendous amount of media stored in your PC and want to share it across all your devices, for instance, your Desktop, Notebook, iPhone or iPad, for free, then give SyncLib a try. It’s a sleek Windows media suite that aims to help you share your Videos, Music and Photos across all your devices. What’s more, you can even stream the media directly from the web. Unlike storing on cloud, it syncs your media files to all the aforementioned devices from your local storage, while giving you the freedom to have access to your media wherever you are, provided you have access to the internet. In addition, you may share your content with your Facebook and Twitter friends directly from within the application, along with an integrated chat functionality. Read More

QuickPlay: Borderless HD Video Player With Support For Up To 4K Resolution

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Even though Microsoft have tried to improve Windows Media Player a lot in terms of interface and design, it still supports only a few number of formats and has room for improvement. A lot of people like to switch to a different media player for that matter, and for playing HD video formats, such as MKV containers and other popular ones. Third party video players, such as VLC, GOM Player, Media Player Classic and KMPlayer are what most people choose over Windows Media Player since they are capable of playing almost any video and come packed with a wide spectrum of features that are never found on Windows Media Player. However, if you want a eye-candy media player that can also play all types of video files, give QuickPlay a shot. It is an application for Windows that allows you to play high (very high, and i literally mean it) definition videos and supports video resolution up to 4096p, casually referred to as 4k. This resolution, though not mainstream is the next new standard after 1080p. Only a few of players support such a large resolution. Keep reading to find out more about QuickPlay. 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

TigoTago: Spreadsheet-Based Tag Editor For Multiple Media Files In Batch

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There are a lot of people, including me, who like to keep their music organized and well-tagged. Tagging the music helps you in easily searching for the required track, no matter which audio player you are using. Even though it has great usefulness, Microsoft hasn’t given a lot of options to users in this regard. Tagging files is a lengthy process of opening each file individually and editing the correct information for every track separately. The main reason that most people avoid tagging their music collection is the amount of time and effort it takes to do it. TigoTago is a tag editor that takes care of this problem and provides you with an easier and less time-consuming method to batch edit the tags of your media files. More on TigoTago after the jump. Read More

NextPVR Is A Personal Video Recorder, Player & Media Management Center

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Managing your media is very important for you to quickly find what you are looking for instead of wasting time in searching for the required music, video or image file. NextPVR is a Windows application that works as a personal video recorder, media center and media manager for you. It allows you to watch your favorite videos, listen to music and view images. If it’s a DVD or something you have got stored up in your collection in the hard drive, NextPVR plays it all. You can either play the files stored in your PC, or access the ones stored on other devices all across your home network. There is also a web interface which allows you to schedule and stream media from a remote location. Read More

MediaRename: Easily Find Correct Names For Stored TV Series & Movies

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Nowadays, when storage devices with huge capacities are easily and cheaply available in the market, it is not unusual for one to have stored large number of TV series and movies. Organizing these TV series and movies can be a bit of a hassle if you have a lot of media stored in your hard disk. One of the most common problems while downloading TV series is that they are not properly named. Checking each media file separately and renaming it to the proper name can take up a lot of your time. Instead of doing it manually, try MediaRenamer. It is an open source application for Windows that allows you to easily rename movies and TV series media files stored in your computer. It lets you scan folders containing movies and TV series, automatically detects their correct name, and renames them accordingly. Keep reading after the break to find out more about MediaRenamer. Read More

Synchronize Media Between PC & Mobile Using Salling Media Sync

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Just a decade ago, computers were fast enough to do all that peta flop calculations they are capable of doing today. Besides our PCs, even mobile phones nowadays are practically computers with dual core processors and capability to perform almost every function that a computer can, including opening and editing text files, playing music and video files, playing 3D games, overclocking, communicating via video chat and what not. With this much capability, phones also come with gargantuan amount of storage space, which for a cellphone, is considered quite enough. With huge data storage capacities, it is common for people to sync and carry around important files, as well music and video collections, in their phones. Salling Media Sync is a Windows application that allows you to synchronize playlists, music and podcasts from iTunes, and photos from Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop Albums SE, to your mobile phone. The application lets you sync selected or all the media from and to your mobile device. It's quite easy to use and consists of a simple interface design. Keep reading for details about its usage, including a few screens. Read More

ZappoTV For Android: Browse Local/Online Media & Stream To Your TV

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ZappoTV Mobile Media Center is a comprehensive local and online media discovery, browsing and streaming app for Android and iOS-powered devices. Not only does the app allow you to view all photos and videos stored on your device and local network, but also stream content from numerous popular social media networks including Facebook, YouTube, SHOUTcast, Flickr, Picasa and lots more. What’s even better is that the app can be used to remotely stream media from your Android device to another, or an internet-enabled TV. After its successful debut in the iTunes App Store, ZappoTV has finally made its way to the Android Market. Read More

myCollection: Manage All Your Media & Auto-Update Information From Web

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myCollections is an open source application to help you manage your Apps, Books, Games, Movies, Music, NDS, Series and other types of media under separate tabs. The application allows you to view all or just some of the tabs, depending on your preference, and shows detailed information about each selected media item. You can apply various filters to displayed content, such as View Files with Cover, Without Cover, Complete, Not Complete, Heard, Not Heard etc, and different views such as Card View, Covered View, CoverFlow View etc. It comes with a built-in duplicate checker and a tool to automatically download media information from the web. Moreover, myCollections has multi-language support, and offers different skins to choose from. More on the application after the jump. Read More

E-Z Media Converter Lets You Convert Selected Part Of Any Media File

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Due to the large number of media devices, files need to be converted to different formats in order to be played on them. Last year, we covered MediaHuman Audio Converter an easy to use audio conversion tool, and then MediaHuman Video Converter, a video converter that allows you to batch convert videos to a number of formats by providing you with a long list of presets to choose from. Today, we have another video converter for you, named E-Z Media Converter, that allows you to convert between a large number of, both audio and video media formats. Other than converting audio and video media files, it also allows you to select just a part of the file to convert. For instance, if you want only the first 2 minutes from a 10 minute video, you don’t have to convert the whole file. Just select the required portion and convert! Currently, AVI, FLV, WMV, MP4, AAC, FLAC, WAV, WMA and MP3 media formats are supported by the application. Read More

Cloudless: Two-Way WiFi Media Sync Between Computer & Android Without A Desktop Client

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If you've been following our Android apps section for quite a while now, then you might probably remember SweeSoft’s SweetHome!, a free app that automatically syncs all your device’s photos/videos to your computer over a common Wi-Fi network, without a desktop client. Just recently, said developer has added a new level to the aforementioned concept and released an alpha build of a brand new app to the Market by the name of Cloudless Wi-Fi Media Transfer. The app extends its remote syncing support beyond images/videos, allowing you to sync your favorite music (MP3) files as well. Using Cloudless, you can now enjoy two-way sync of media files; from your computer to Android and vice versa. That’s not all, you can sync media files across multiple computers that are connected to your network, and specify sync directory as well as direction for each. Read More

Mydiamarks: Bookmark Media & Share YouTube Video Timecodes [Android]

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Mydiamarks (or simply, My-Media-Bookmarks) is a free app for Android that lets users bookmark their favorite media including audio files (songs, audiobooks etc.) and even YouTube videos. The app has its own native player, music library, YouTube video browser/player and a library that contains all your locally saved bookmarks of audio files as well as the publicly shared YouTube bookmarks (timecodes). Bookmarking with Mydiamarks is simple. While playing some media, just stop/pause on your favorite spot, select the bookmark option and save the bookmark in the app's library. Read More

MediaTab Adds Advanced Audio/Video Information Tab In File Properties

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MediaTab uses MediaInfo libraries to analyze media files and extract audio/video related information. Unlike MediaInfo, which shows multimedia information in a separate window, it integrates with Windows Explorer file Properties dialog box so you can quickly view detailed information of media file in question. The application doesn’t offer a separate interface to browse media files; once installed, right-click the media file, select Properties, and switch to newly added MediaTab tab to view video and audio codecs information, default aspect ratio for video files, video resolution, bitrate, meta tag information, encoded information and lot more. Read More

Hearing Saver Automatically Changes Volume On Plugging In / Unplugging Headphones [Android]

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Do you listen to a lot of music on your Android device? Then you probably know how much of a hassle it is to adjust the media volume every time you plug in your headphones and again up when you unplug them. Well, no more. Introducing Hearing Saver for Android - a small yet extremely handy tool that allows you to set separate media volume levels for when your headphones are plugged in and when they’re unplugged, saving you the trouble of touching that volume rocker each time. In addition, the app can be set to automatically mute ringer and notifications whenever headphones are plugged in – once again, a pretty impressive option to have up your sleeve. Although notification sounds are usually no longer than a beep, most users would rather want they weren’t disturbed by the sound of, say, an incoming SMS or email, while listening to music on their devices. What Hearing Saver offers is a functionality that many would like to see as part of the Android OS. However, even if the guys at Google stick with manual volume control, custom ROM developers can always integrate said functionality into their ROMs. Hearing Saver is free and open source. Read More

Emit – Encode, Download & Stream Media From Computer To Android Over WiFi

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If you are tired of continuously porting your favorite media files to your Android device from your computer or if your SD card cannot stand any more heavy media files, then may be it’s time to try Emit, a real-time media encoder and streamer that allows you to play media directly from your computer onto you Android device over WiFi. Air streaming seems to be the future when it comes to playing media files on your gadgets. No wires involved, no downloading involved, no copy/pasting involved and thankfully, no more long waiting sessions involved. All media content is streamed live from your computer via a server application without storing a single bit of data on your device. You can, however, pre-encode videos and download them to the device for offline viewing, play .mkv files with subtitles and download music from your iTunes library. Read More

Miro 4 Adds iTunes Like Syncing And Media Manager For Android Devices

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Do you hate not having any iTunes like media manager for your Android device? You will probably find a dozen media managers claiming to sync your Android based phone or tablet but none stands as close to iTunes as Miro 4. The next version of Miro (version 4) is a freshly developed open source desktop media manager with features to browse, play, manage, and download media files and podcasts. The biggest feature being that now it can sync with a range of Android phones. What makes it stand out from rest of Android media managers is that it offers iTunes like user interface to not only manage your media files and podcasts but also to sync iTunes library and other defined media folders in somewhat similar fashion. In a nutshell, Miro 4 for Android devices is what iTunes is for iOS devices. Read More

QVIVO Media Center Comes To Mac, Better Than Windows Counterpart

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If you like to try out new media centers with novel and interesting features for organizing media collection, you must’ve stumbled across QVIVO, a brilliant media organizer which capitalizes more on social media components to easily manage and share media collection (movies, music albums, and T.V shows) with your family and friends. Back in March, we covered QVIVO for Windows because it wasn’t available for either Mac or Linux. Just today, QVIVO dev team has notified us about freshly released Mac version. Comparing Mac alpha release with Windows version, it is far more responsive, quick in listing down watched folders, can detect and play movies with all the variations, and importantly doesn’t lag while playing audio and video files and switching between different interface sections. In a nutshell, QVIVO for Mac is better than its Windows counterpart. Read More

Volume Sync For Android Mutes Media Volume When Ringer Is Muted

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Do you know that using your Android's volume rocker keys, you can only adjust your device's ringer volume but not the media volume? Often, when you’re at work, in a library (assuming people still go to libraries) or taking a class, you tend to turn the ringer volume all the way down. That takes care of calls and notifications, but if you were to launch a game, you’d be hard pressed to turn down the Media Volume before breaking the silence and turning into the center of attention. Volume Sync for Android is a free, handy little tool that mutes the Media Volume whenever the Ringer Volume is turned all the way down. Read More