media players
doubleTwist Adds Podcasting To Its Device Syncing Powers
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: doubleTwist makes for a convenient way of syncing your smartphone, camera and other USB-plug-able gadgets, especially if you’re not using Apple products. Now doubleTwist does a great job of finding and monitoring podcasts, and sending them where you want to listen. More »
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AudioBox Puts Your Music Library In The Cloud
9:00AM Lisa Hoover | When you bop between your work and home computers all the time, it’s tough keeping your favourite music at your fingertips (“Which computer has my Once More, With Feeling soundtrack on it?”) AudioBox lets you listen to your music from anywhere. More »
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4:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to your computer (they’re like newsreaders for media). Check out these five popular podcast managers and let the entertainment come to you. More »
Five Best Podcast Managers
4:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to your computer (they’re like newsreaders for media). Check out these five popular podcast managers and let the entertainment come to you. More »
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VLC Gets Extension Capabilities In Nightly Builds
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | VLC Media Player does a fairly great job playing any media file on nearly any system. Now it’s slowly being opened up to extensions that can enrich and expand your music and movies, which you can jump ahead and grab. More »
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Amarok Media Player Updates: Features Added, Bugs Squashed
12:00PM Whitson Gordon | Windows/Mac/Linux: The new version of the Amarok may not be life-changing, but it could certainly make your music life easier. BPM filtering, font changing, podcast importing and reorganisation join the regular bug fixes to make Amarok more stable and streamlined media player. More »
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Foobar2000 1.0: Nicer Layout, Support For Windows Media
10:00AM Lisa Hoover | Windows only: Freeware audio player foobar2000 has a big new 1.0 release under its belt, sporting a bunch of new features and improvements. If you’re looking for a lightweight media player that’s highly customisable, then foobar2000 deserves a look. More »
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Songbird 1.4.2 Brings New Look, CD Ripping And Device Support
3:30AM Whitson Gordon | Windows/Mac/Linux: Previously mentioned Songbird, the open source, Mozilla-powered, supposedly iTunes-killing media player has updated to 1.4.2, bringing a host of new features, including AAC metadata support, a new feather (skin), CD ripping and support for many mass storage devices. More »
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VLC Gets Dressed Up For Christmas
3:45AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re a fan of VLC — the open-source and awesome media player that had made appearances in our Hive Fives for best portable applications and best desktop media players — you may have noticed a little change in your VLC icon this week. More »
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MediaMonkey 3.2 Syncs With More Devices, Adds Auto Folder Watching
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: We dig MediaMonkey for its album art and tag-fixing powers, but the free jukebox software can do so much more — like sync to nearly any smartphone or MP3 player, and automatically manage your music library. More »
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | The Windows version of iTunes is indisputably the poor cousin compared to the Mac release. One feature it implements patchily is support for the multimedia keys found on many PC keyboards, but you may be able to fix that with the mmKeys.dll plug-in. More »
mmKeys.dll Makes Media Keys Work Properly With iTunes
9:00AM Angus Kidman | The Windows version of iTunes is indisputably the poor cousin compared to the Mac release. One feature it implements patchily is support for the multimedia keys found on many PC keyboards, but you may be able to fix that with the mmKeys.dll plug-in. More » 
