A Free Digital Music Manager to Find Tracks Online

The Muffin Music Finder is a totally complete digital music manager. It finds tracks online and handles all the music files on the computer.

The base for the music recognition component of the software is Fraunhofer technology. This application brings completely real analysis to audio files, and also creates playlists which consist of songs that follow the user defined search rules on a computer, an iPod device, or an MP3 player. The software has an MP3 Manager built in which detects music files by looking for their musical fingerprint. It completely analyzes the file prior to it being displayed on the list, without relaying the information to third party recommendations or ID3 tags. In addition, it also creates a playlist with other tracts sound like what is expected or are similar.

When the user selects the music that matches the user’s taste, Music Finder arranges all the songs and creates a playlist. This playlist consists of, what may be forgotten tracks or tracks that have never been listened to.

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Use VLC media player as Video Cutter

The latest version of VLC media player lets you cut videos and use it as a video cutter. There has been a lot of several cool features added to the latest version of VLC. If you haven’t downloaded the latest version yet, then download it from here.


How to Cut Videos Using VLC

Install the latest VLC player.

Open player and under option “View” select “advanced controls”.

Now you can see some extra icons available in your control panel. First button from left is the “RECORD” button.

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Copy Any Movie DVD to Hard Disk : Bypass DVD Copy Protection

At certain times when we used to copy the original DVDs (movies) to the hard drive, it used to get a copyright error. We get the error because those DVD titles are often encrypted, which prevents us from either copying them to hard drive or if we manage to do so, being able to play the resulting files. So here is a freeware called DVDSmith to copy any DVD movie with excellent DVD copying quality in Full Disk Mode. It can backup, clone or copy DVD movie to computer as DVD folder, ISO file. With DVDSmith Movie Backup, everyone can experience its features in super fast copying speed (only about 15 minutes for DVD-5 or 25 minutes for DVD-9) and more! It can even bypass the copy protection error. Below are some quick features about this freeware : * Supports Copy-Protected DVDs, Copies all DVDs even with anti-piracy encryption. * Perfect Video & Audio Quality - like the original. * High speed and quality. Copy your DVD movie in a very short time. * Supports both NTSC & PAL DVD movies. * Make high quality back copies of your favorite DVD movies. * Sound and video never change in quality. * Very easy to use for everyone - Just click and Backup. Download Instructions: Click here to download DvdSmith from the official website.

Listen Online Bollywood Live Radio - City 1016

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Free Online Radio via Gtalk/Yahoo/MSN

Listen free online radio through Gtalk or your favorite messenger. You can use this online radio service either via the browser interface (inside gmail) or the Gtalk application itself.This online chat radio is made possible by the guys from gtalk2voip. Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger users now can connect to a number of Internet Radio Broadcasting stations and start listening radio streams. How to listen to free online radio 1. Subscribe to gtalk2voip by adding service@gtalk2voip.com to your buddy list. 2. Send RADIO command to service@gtalk2voip.com to get list of available radio stations along with their ID’s. 3. To listen a particular radio station, simply send a command RADIO (number/id). Here is the complete list of online radio stations available through them. LIST OF AVAILABLE RADIO STATIONS: 100 - 181.fm - Kickin Country (Todays Best Country!), http://scfire-chi0l-1.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1075 101 - 1.FM - Country, http://64.62.194.11:8020/ 102 - Atlantic Sound Factory - ASF Radio, http://69.31.50.146:80/ 103 - 100.7 Jack FM, San Diego, http://38.116.132.31:9024/ 104 - 102.7 FM The Fringe, http://64.72.124.89:8134/ 105 - 181.fm - The Buzz (Your Alternative Station!), http://scfire-nyk0l-1.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1022 106 - 181.fm - The Mix Channel (70s, 80s, 90s and Todays Best Music), http://208.53.158.167:8032/ 107 - 181.fm - The Eagle (Your Home For REAL Classic Rock!), http://208.53.158.126:8030/ 108 - .977 The 80s Channel, http://scfire-ntc0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040 109 - 1.FM - Channel X, http://209.51.161.54:8072/ 111 - Radio Helsinki - 92.6 MHz, http://88.198.49.11:8000/live56.ogg 201 - KCRW World News, http://scfire-ntc0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1047 202 - Sporting News Radio, http://scfire-chi0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1057 203 - KPFK - Southern Californias 90.7 FM News, Talk n Music, http://64.27.31.66:80/ 204 - WBUR 90.9 FM, Bostons NPR News Station, http://205.234.188.21:80/ 205 - TalkRadioX -- http://talkradiox.com, http://tv.stream-music.net:8332/ 206 - Arabian HIT 96.7 FM, Dubai, http://wm-live.abacast.com/arabian_radio-hitfm-24 To connect, type RADIO number where number is a station numerical ID from the list above.

Use your pc as alarm

Now this is specially for the ones who are too lazy to get up even when the trust cellphone dies screeching its lungs out. Its pretty simple Creating the playlist create a playlist of your favourite songs in Winamp, WMP or any other player. Export the playlist as a M3U playlist. M3U is generally accepted by almost every player. Triggering the alarm point to start> programs >accessories > system tools >scheduled tasks Create a new task and choose program as windows media player or winamp (May work with others too but I haven’t tried anything else) Choose “daily”, Enter the time and choose “every day” at next screen. It would now ask for password (leave blank in case you don’t have one) Right click on the newly created task and check the “run only if logged in” check box. In the properties. Append the path to the playlist you created in the “run” text box. It should now look like Code: Code: “D:\windows mediaplayer\wmplayer.exe”K:\Playlists\smoothies.m3uthe text inside quotes is my WMP’s path. It may vary for you. The text after WMP’s path is the one to the playlist. Click OK and you’re done.

SET A VIDEO AS YOUR WALLPAPER

This is a pretty simple tweak using which you can set any video as your desktop wallpaper. Just follow the steps given below: 1. Download VLC Media Player and install it. 2. Run VLC media player, go to Settings->preferences->Interface->General, then click on wxWindows. Remove the tick on "Taskbar" and put a tick on "Systray icon". 3. Now go to Video->Output Modules->DirectX. On the bottom right put a tick on advanced options check box. You will now see some options. Put a tick on "Enable Wallpaper Mode". 4. Now, select playlist, then click General and put a check or tick on "Repeat current item". 5. Press the Save button. Now close the vlc player and run it again (to save the settings permanently). 6. Now play any video you would like to set as Wallpaper. Right click on the video and click on "Wallpaper". The video would be set as your wallpaper!!!

Add Album Art to any Music Folder

Add Album Art to any Music Folder
This is easily my favorite tip! One of the coolest new features in Windows XP is its album thumbnail generator, which automatically places the appropriate album cover art on the folder to which you are copying music (generally in WMA format). But what about those people that have already copied their CDs to the hard drive using MP3 format? You can download album cover art from sites such as cdnow.com or amguide.com, and then use the new Windows XP folder customize feature to display the proper image for each folder. But this takes time--you have to manually edit the folder properties for every single folder--and you will lose customizations if you have to reinstall the OS. There's an excellent fix, however.

When you download the album cover art from the Web, just save the images as folder.jpg each time and place them in the appropriate folder. Then, Windows XP will automatically use that image as the thumbnail for that folder and, best of all, will use that image in Windows Media Player for Windows XP (MPXP) if you choose to display album cover art instead of a visualization. And the folder customization is automatic, so it survives an OS reinstallation as well.

Your music folders never looked so good!

Great tip for MP3 searching on google

Go to google copy and paste in ?intitle:index.of? mp3 and after mp3 put in an artist or album or whatever and hit enter… what you get is lists of downloadable mp3s eg: ?intitle:index.of? mp3 shakira enjoy downloading…………

Hidden Programs In Windows XP

Do Comment If you Like it... Programs: 1. Private Character Editor : Used for editing fonts,etc. ** start>>Run ** Now, type eudcedit 2. Dr. Watson : This an inbuilt windows repairing software ! ** start>>Run ** Now, type drwtsn32 3. Media Player 5.1 : Even if you upgrade your Media Player, you can still access your old player in case the new one fails !!! ** start>>Run ** Now, type mplay32 4. iExpress : Used to create Setups. You can create your own installers (.exe files) ** start>>Run ** Now, type iexpress HIDDEN MUSIC Microsoft Windows XP is playing a cool music during installation. It is a pleasant little tune that you’ve probably never heard, unless you were present when Windows was being installed on your PC. After that it’s never played again, unless you know where to look for it. To hear what you’ve been missing, just follow these: Make you way to C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images and look for a file called "Title.wma" or possibly "Windows welcome music.wma". CooL!!!

Discover Hidden Music in Windows XP

Did you know, there is a hidden music in Windows XP that you have never heard.. To hear this sound, first of all go to Folder Options and under the "View" tab, check "Show hidden files and folder". Now navigate to the drive where Windows XP is installed. So if C:\ is the drive where Windows XP is installed, goto C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images There you will find a file Title.wma. Open in with your favorite media player and listen to it. Do comment...:) ****************************************************************

Customize Windows Media Player Title Bar

Customize Windows Media Player Title Bar Allows you to change the title bar to read Windows Media Player provided by , so if I had entered text of [The Elder Geek], it would read: Windows Media Player provided by The Elder Geek [Start] [Run] [Regedit] Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft Create the Key [WindowsMediaPlayer]. Modify/Create the Value Name [TitleBar] according to the Value Data listed below. Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value] // Value Name: TitleBar Value Data: [Enter the text to be displayed in the title bar.] Note: Whatever text you enter as the value data will be preceded by: Windows Media Player provided by, so if I had entered text of [The Elder Geek], it would read: Windows Media Player provided by The Elder Geek Exit Registry and Reboot Note: Not works in WMP11

Start a movie in paint!

Start movie in Paint! * First start a movie in any player. * Then open Paint. * Now, in the player when the movie is being played, press "Print screen" button on your key board. * Now, Press ctrl+v in Paint * Leave the movie player open and don't minimize it. * Open Paint now and see the movie in the Paint! :)