Microsoft has teamed up with music site ReverbNation to hand out more than 1,000 MP3 and M4A files. You won’t know most of them, but there are likely a few keepers worth an extra click.
Want to show your friends which tracks you can mixtape for them, or just show off your brilliant collection of pop hits and esoteric oldies? Dusty Tunes converts iTunes libraries and XML files into web-based lists.
Windows only: Free application iWatchSyncer monitors any folder on your computer and automatically adds new MP3s to your iTunes library, bridging a very annoying gap in the default iTunes behaviour.
We’ve already taken the bold (for us) stance that Twitter can be actually useful. Now Wired comes along and suggests it can actually do something else—serve as a fresh searching pool for new music.
MP3 Search is a web music finder with a simple interface. Similar to previously reviewed Mix Turtle, MP3 Search sports a spartan, grab-it-and-go interface. Unlike Mix Turtle, though, you can download the tracks to your computer. The music you select loads in a small pop-up flash player for preview or quick listen, though you can’t queue up multiple tracks as on Seeqpod. If you have a favourite site for streaming music or finding tunes, sound off in the comments below.
MP3 Search [via MakeUseOf]Windows (with iTunes, WinAmp, or KMPlayer): Free plug-in tool MiniTube hunts down music videos from Flash-based video sites and plays them along with your tunes. MiniTube’s signature feature is the ability to play the video synced up to your local MP3—in other words, lip-synced to wherever you are in the song when the video starts playing. Its video accuracy depends, of course, on the accuracy of YouTube uploaders (and the video’s copyright status), but you can tell MiniTube that a video is wrong and have it re-search, and it can be set to disappear when there’s nothing to grab. Check out a video demonstration of MiniTube in action below.
Windows only: Rename the thousands of MP3 files in your digital music library and add or edit tags, lyrics, and album art in one fell swoop with free utility TagScanner. Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define (like %artist% - %title%), it can make music playlists, and search online databases like freedb and Amazon to automatically tag music missing information. It includes a built-in player as well so you can listen to tracks while you edit. We’ve recommended Media Monkey to whip your music’s metadata into shape, but TagScanner looks like a solid alternative. TagScanner is a free download for Windows only.
TagScanner [via Download Blog]Want to share music playlists Muxtape style but don’t want to muck around with PHP and host it yourself using Opentape? New service Tumbltape creates playlists of songs hosted on our favourite blogging tool, Tumblr. The ReadWriteWeb blog runs down how Tumbltape works.
Beloved music playlist hosting service Muxtape‘s gone offline to “sort out a problem with the RIAA,” but if you’ve got some web server space, you can host, stream, and share your own digital music mixes Muxtape-style with newly-launched PHP web application Opentape. Opentape isn’t affiliated with Muxtape in any way, but it’s wildly similar, boasting a sparse, easy-to-use interface with drag-and-drop song rearrangement. To run Opentape, you’ve got to have a web server running PHP5 (or set up your own at home), and install Opentape on it. Let’s take a closer look.
