June 26, 2010
If you’re looking for a bloated monstrosity that used to be lean it’s hard to beat iTunes. In the beginning iTunes primarily did one thing — playing music — and did it really well. Today iTunes plays music, movies, podcasts, manages iPods and iPhones, manages software for your iPhone and iPod touch and of course [...]
June 15, 2010
There has always been one universal constant for purchasers of an iPod – that they would be using Apple’s iTunes to sync it. Apple’s iTunes has been downloaded millions of times and is adored by many, but what if you’re looking for an alternative? Last year, we covered a similar topic entitled 6 Ways To [...]
June 8, 2010
Don’t you wish you could listen to your collection of MP3s from any computer without toting around a thumb drive or MP3 player? What about sharing the music with others? Wouldn’t that be cool? Also, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to share podcasts and other similar soundbites on your website or another social [...]
May 14, 2010
If you use your computer as a media center (or more specifically, jukebox), you’ll sometimes want to interrupt the automated shuffle. Maybe because you’re up for something harder, or you don’t want your date to know you dig opera. You’re not always going to be in front of your computer, and you probably don’t have [...]
May 13, 2010
What’s a party without music? A boring one is the answer. And if you are the host, what will that kind of party make you? An interesting filler for your friend’s gossip session. If you don’t mind becoming the source of constant giggles behind your back, that’s fine. But you can easily turn the embarrassment [...]
May 12, 2010
As promised in the first part of our discussion about Instinctiv, this second part will discuss the ability of this still-beta app to sync Mac users’ music library to other media player devices. This might be a dream come true to all Mac users who also use other non-Apple gadgets and want a free and [...]
May 11, 2010
When it comes to a music player in Mac, iTunes is the default choice. With the advantage of being the leader, Apple has made iTunes so good and so full featured that it’s extremely difficult for other Mac music players to catch up. Not only does iTunes gives its users superb sound quality, it’s also [...]
May 10, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week we are taking one software category from CNet and listing the top ten most downloaded apps in it. This week we will be looking at MP3 & audio software. These are the apps that we use to convert, organize or listen to [...]
May 2, 2010
Back when Songbird – a music player based on Mozilla’s code – initially launched, I was immediately intrigued by the idea. A completely customizable music player. The audio equivalent of Firefox. Sadly, the critiques were largely true. Songbird was riddled with bugs and sure didn’t mind crashing once in a while. Since then, Songbird has [...]
April 7, 2010
Last week the Songbird team announced it would stop supporting Linux. Since the article announcing this featured the annoyingly chipper bird you see here, and because the headline of said article was the jovial ”Songbird Singing a New Tune,” many people assumed the entire thing was a particularly cruel April Fools prank. I mean, come [...]
