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Songbeat 360 Brings Back Seriously Easy Music Downloads
12:10AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe Air): Songbeat, the search-and-click MP3 downloading app of, erm, questionable legal standing, has returned as a cross-platform Adobe AIR app. Just like before, it’s like an old-school Napster for one-off MP3 grabbing, with one small caveat. More »
Organise
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Want to copy a song from your iPod back onto your PC? You’ll need some specialised software, and potentially infinite patience. Here’s the lowdown on what you need to know. More »
Persistence Is Key To iPod Music Copying
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Want to copy a song from your iPod back onto your PC? You’ll need some specialised software, and potentially infinite patience. Here’s the lowdown on what you need to know. More »
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MP3 Diags Scans And Repairs Your MP3 Collection
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Window/Linux: Fixing a tag here and there is one thing, but what if your MP3 collection is in need of a deep and serious massaging to get things in order? MP3 Diags lets you dig into the guts of MP3s. More »
Design
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Album cover design might be a dying art in the CD age, but serious music buffs can still obsess over classic covers. AlbumArtExchange has around 50,000 album cover scans, and it’s not afraid to tell you how good most of them are. More »
AlbumArtExchange Offers High-Quality Album Art
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Album cover design might be a dying art in the CD age, but serious music buffs can still obsess over classic covers. AlbumArtExchange has around 50,000 album cover scans, and it’s not afraid to tell you how good most of them are. More »
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Homemade Floating Speaker Takes Your Tunes On The Water
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Whether lounging in the pool or tubing down a river, enjoying warm weather and water shouldn’t separate you from your tunes. Check out this speaker modification project to create a waterproof, tune-blasting buoy. More »
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TidySongs Cleans Up Your Music Genres
7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac OS X: TidySongs is an Adobe AIR application that analyses your iTunes library to find duplicates, clean up tracks, and better organise your genres (something that’s always been the black hole of metadata with my music). More »
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MP3Extractor Flags And Separates Large MP3 Files
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Lengthy MP3s, like a poorly converted audiobook or an analogue to digital recording, often need to be chopped into smaller, easily managed MP3s. MP3Extractor will make short work of it. More »
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TuneWiki Puts Lyrics, Radio And Social Features Into Mobile Music
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | iPhone/Android/BlackBerry: TuneWiki does pretty much everything your phone’s built-in music player does, then does much more. The notable feature is real-time lyrics display, but TuneWiki also geo-locates songs playing near you, shares favourites on social networks, and handles radio admirably. More »
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MP3 Quality Modifier Packs More Music On MP3 Players
1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: MP3 Quality Modifier makes it easy to lower the bit rate of your audio files, allowing non-audiophiles to more of them onto an MP3 player. More »
