music

Play iTunes Music Library Online With Moof

By Usman | Published: August 28, 2010

Moof offers music buffs with an online application to access, search and manage their music collection. Previously we have come across mSpot (that allows user to upload music file to the online server for accessing them remotely). Moof is different because it lets you import iTunes library and then populate the list with all matching songs found in your music library.

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MP3 Freund: Index Large Mp3 Music Library For Faster Search

By Usman | Published: August 26, 2010

MP3Freund can index your MP3 music library for faster search. It has a fast indexing mechanism, offers instant search with an ability to search by meta information, file name and folder name. It allows controlling of music player using plugins – at the moment only Winamp is supported. However, the opening of music files and drag & drop behavior will work with every media player.

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Organize, Rename, And Tag Music Files With TagScanner

By Usman | Published: August 20, 2010

TagScanner is a comprehensive tool for organizing and managing your music collection. It supports widely used file formats and offers extensive set of tools and options for editing meta information: tags. It can also rename files in multiple ways which are based on diverse tag information, generate tag info from filenames, and perform text transformation from tags & filenames. It offers support of ID3 (V1&V2), Vorbis comments, APEv2, Windows Media and Mp4 (iTunes) tags.

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The Crab: Organize And Download All Related Information About Your Music Collection

By Usman | Published: August 17, 2010

Managing huge music library is a mess and music buffs have to look for different  workarounds to organize their music collection. Prevalently the album art, tagging and ID3 (V1 & V2) information is needed to begin with. If you’re dealing with huge music library then The Crab can help you out in organizing each music album out of your messed up music archive. While supporting all the eminent file formats, its intuitive way of finding information about the specified music files assists you in organizing files without much hassle involved.

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Start My Day: Play Music, Open Favorite Web Links And Launch Applications Under One Window

By Usman | Published: July 24, 2010

Start My Day is an application designed to pamper those users who hate the idea of opening applications from different locations and are in need of tool which can hold all of their favorite applications, music, tools, web favorites under one hood.

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Manage Your Own Media Streaming Server With Subsonic

By ASK | Published: July 20, 2010

Subsonic is a web based media streaming tool which lets you play, share, search and access radio stations and offers whole lot of other features. It allows to stream music on-the-go, which works great when you want to play different genres in different locations. Once configured and set up, your media collection can be accessed from web or from any mobile phone. Yes, they have separate apps for both iPhone and Android.

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Jalmus: Free Music Notes And Rhythms Education Software

By Usman | Published: July 9, 2010

Regardless of what music genre you’re a buff of, there is always a need of understanding the musical notes. Though notes differentiating ability is a pre-req and a lot of listen is also required. If you’ve started perusing music seriously, notes learning software comes in handy. Amongst many tools having relative complexity level, Jalmus is an opensource and absolutely free music education software which is primarily designed for pianists but other instruments enthusiast can also make the most of it. It leans towards teaching all the basic notes to begin with and then some rhythm playing test will be conducted in latter stage.

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Forte Free Is A Professional Music Creator For Desktop

By Usman | Published: July 7, 2010

Creating an awesome musical piece is a craft work and only those who’ve been immensely moved by music can understand the work done behind it, be it rock, pop, classic or of any genre, creating a masterpiece require notes differentiating taste-buds. Music creation tools come useful to lend a helping hand in creating a desired musical piece. Forte Free is an awesome desktop music creator which can considerably mitigate the hard work involved. It is a full-fledged and feature-rich music creation tool, providing lot of options, features, different sound qualities (Guitar, Piano, Organ, percussions, drums) and hundreds of other synthesized sound effects.

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mSpot: Upload And Stream Music Across Multiple PCs / Mobile Devices

By Usman | Published: July 6, 2010

mSpot is a web application which offers the best solution for all those music buffs who are extremely possessive & particular about their music library. Even though web space is overwhelmed with almost every musical piece including all sort of genres, artists and what not, there is still a need of personalized music collection online. It is specifically targeted towards those music junkies who have always faced problems in searching the desired music from web. As name implies, it is one hotspot for saving music online so that it can streamed anytime, anywhere.

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Mixxx Is An Awesome DJ Music Mixer Software

By Usman | Published: July 3, 2010

Mixxx is an opensource feature-rich & full-fledged DJ software contrived especially for Disc Jockeys to create mixed music. As DJs are always on the frantic look out to fuse list of squiggly musical pieces, this one provides hundreds of options and features to let you insert and customize intrinsic sound qualities. It includes thousands of pre-defined sounds which you can easily change & customize according to the tone of music playing at background.

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Download Missing Album Art For Your Music Collection

By Aatif | Published: June 30, 2010

If you’re a music fanboy like me who is very conscious about organization of their music library, and particularly fond of Album Art (you have to admit, the wonderful iTunes and iPod cover flow looks bland without it), this tool will certainly appeal to you. Album Art Downloader is a free, open source software that does just what its name suggests: downloads album art.

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Music Converter Converts Audio Between Popular Formats

By Aatif | Published: June 17, 2010

Music converters are plenty, and many good ones that are free as well, so here the competition comes down to ease of use balanced with feature requirement. There are many popular converters that support a huge format range but let’s face it: most of the times, an average user doesn’t need any of those except the most popular ones. A plethora of settings might also boggle down the average Joe. Hence simplicity also takes the prize.

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Create Music With Boxed-Up Aviary’s Roc Music Creator

By Usman | Published: June 12, 2010

As web is turning out to become a primary focus of the users, some companies are changing tracks to meet the users’ demands. Aviary’s Music Creator is a web application, however, not full-featured music creator but provides ample boxed-up options and features to create out a desired piece of music. What makes it a bit distinctive from rest of free tools is that the interface is quite easy to get by and sequential procedure of creating music really helps any music enthusiast to start making his own type of music instantly.

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Musicy: Listen To Radio And Rip Streaming Music

By Usman | Published: June 11, 2010

As radio stations are contrived for different music genres and distinctive in terms of jazz, rock, metal, heavy metal, grunge and so on, listeners keeps on changing tracks. Tools for recording radio streaming are not sufficient and does not provide full scalability. Musicy on the other hand, targets those music junkies who frequently listens to different radio stations for keeping tab on particular genre. Besides being a radio streaming utility, it also let users instantly rip and download the track which is being streamed.

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Music Management Made Better With Cuberok

By Aatif | Published: June 1, 2010

With so many good options to choose from in music players, there hardly seems any place for a newcomer. Yet Cuberok appeared good enough to merit a review. It is an open source, free music player and collection manager based on Qt4. With a lightweight interface, internet radio support, automatic download of lyrics, and many other features, this software seems to hold quite a promise for the music enthusiast.

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