MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain information extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You’ll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genre and track number. Also this hint will contain two additional handy information extracted from the MP3 file: song’s bitrate and duration.

This extension can be very useful when you have a lots of files with meaningless names as e.g. Track23.mp3. With help of MP3 Hint you will fast recognize any MP3 file, without necessity of loading this file into a MP3 player. I’m sure you will appreciate advantages of this extension when you will be renaming your music files, copying chosen compositions for someone, or browsing someone’s music collection in the local network – you don’t need to download whole file anymore to see what song it is, just hover your mouse cursor over its icon.

Download MP3Hint : Click Here (182 KB)

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Now, you don’t have to go goggling for individual video converter, because  the king of all converters is here. It helps you to convert between almost all video formats like AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, M4V, 3GP. Convert audio and video formats for Apple  iPod , Sony Playstation, Microsoft Zune, flash players.

In addition, the collection contains audio extractor & converter, which allows you to extract audio tracks from video files and convert audio files between the most important audio formats (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, AC3, FLAC).  Very easy to use even for novice users.

No installation required, just run the StartPVCS.exe.

Download Pazera Video Converters Suite : Click Here (29.7 MB)

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Ok, it happens often that you want to split large AVI file into smaller files, maybe you want to split the large DVD file into small 700MB files to fit in your CD’s or clip a specific scene from a video, etc. There are many softwares available on the net to split, join or Clip large AVI/DivX files. Most of these applications are either trialware or difficult to use.

AviSplit is the simple solution for this. It can split a large AVI file into more convenient pieces (you set the size), rejoin those pieces or extract a clip with a specified starting and ending point.

Whether pieces or a clip, Avisplit output can be viewed in any standard player, and when the pieces are recombined, the result is exactly the same as the original.

Whether splitting, rejoining or clipping, very fast as no data processing is involved (lossless). Generally, using Avisplit is about as fast as copying the file itself.

Download AviSplit : Click Here (703 KB)

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With Duplicate Music Files Finder you can track your music files duplicates and delete them. The program uses advanced search techniques to detect duplicates(it searches MP3s TAGS, detects duplicates even if the file names are not the same etc). If duplicates are found you can delete the files you want: just check them and press the right mouse button. You can also play the selected files in your favorite Media Player to see if they really are duplicates.

But this is not all you can do with DMFF. The program comes with a module that can be used to quickly rename bad formatted music files. Just load one folder and DMFF will detect the bad formatted files and let you choose which of them to rename.

Even though DMFF is specialized in detecting duplicates of music files, it does not mean that it can be used only for these file types. You can use the CRC Match or Exact File Name match methods to detect duplicates of other file types.

Download Duplicate Music Files Finder : Click Here (910 KB)

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Jammix Enhancer is a plug-in for Winamp which enables you to improve this player’s sound quality, or at least adapt it to your likings.

The program offers more than twenty presets and also allows the user to create as many more as desired. Thus you have a wide range of possibilitires to customize Winamp’s sound according to your preferences or the way you listen to music.

Some of its enhancements are automatic volume adjustment, special configuration to listen to music with earphones or dynamic bass power. Jammix Enhancer is, in fact, one of Winamp’s highest rated plug-ins.

Notes:

To install, simply copy the ZIP contents into the Winamp Plugins folder and access the plug-in options via the Winamp Options > Preferences > Plug-ins menu, under "DSP/Effect"

Download Jammix Enhancer : Click Here (351 KB)

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LyricsSeeker is a very small plugin for your favorite music players that retrieves lyrics to song currently playing. You can install plugin for iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player or both. LyricsSeeker will notify you if it found words to song in our extensive database featuring over 450,000 lyrics and 15,000 artists. Best iTunes, Winamp and Windows Media Player Lyrics Plugin.

If lyrics are found, a notification balloon will show for 10 seconds as presented in figure below. After ten seconds, balloon will disappear leaving colored icon reminding you that lyrics were found. You can either click balloon or double click notification icon to retrieve lyrics. Lyrics will be shown in your Internet browser (you have to be connected to the Internet in order to get lyrics).
If lyrics were not found, balloon will not show up and the LyricsSeeker icon will remain gray suggesting that lyrics were not found.

Download LyricsSeeker : Click Here (563 KB)

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 MixMeister BPM Analyser is a small program to calculate the Beats-Per-Minute (BPM) of your songs and update the ID3 tags in your music files with exact BPM information. Can add a particular folder or simply drag and drop files, further you can sort files by Title, Artist, or BPM. Also, print option included to create BPM reports for your entire music collection. Now you can create separate playlist of fast songs with high BPM and mellow songs with low BPM and enjoy the songs according to your mood.

Info:

• Calculate extremely accurate BPM counts for any song
• Drag and drop music files from Windows Explorer
• Display and sort files by Title, Artist, or BPM
• Update ID3 tags in your music files with exact BPM information
• Easily print BPM reports for your entire music collection
• Export BPM counts for use in other programs
• Free to use and distribute for non-commercial purposes

Available for both Windows and MAC.

Download MixMeister BPM Analyser : Click Here (638 KB)

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Everybody loves YouTube and love to view those videos on their cell phones. Ordinarily, you download the YouTube Flash video(.flv) using a downloader or from some website, then you have to look for a converter to convert the .flv file to the .3gp file or say .mp4 for ipod or other phones. You search all over the net then you come across some complicated or a shareware program. Now you don’t have to go through all this. YouQueue(Freeware) will let you download and convert to the desired video format. Just select the videos from website, select the output format for those videos. and let the software do the rest.

It uses the concept of Queue to download and convert all the videos one after another. To explain this in detail lets take this simple example.

Suppose you have searched and want to download 3 videos from YouTube, One is to be converted to .AVI format other one to .Mp4 and the third one just the normal .flv format.

• Just right click the video and click “Add Video to queue”
• Select the file from the conversion settings, choose the output format individually and add to queue by pressing the Add to Processing Button.
• Once you see those files in the Processing queue list click the Download/Convert button and sit back. Your file will be ready for viewing after being downloaded and converted.

You can also add an URL or a .flv file from your hard disk to convert.

This is a “MUST download” Software for all the YouTube fans outthere.

Download TeleQueue : Click Here (both installer and Portable version)

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Most harmful viruses on the net disable the Task Manager and Registry editor making it difficult for  you to deal with their infections. This makes almost impossible for us to kill the running malicious processes or delete the registry entries from the startup.

Always, running an anti-virus scan is the first solution in such case, but if still unsuccessful and you want to enable the Task manager manually, here are 2 simple  methods to fix this error.

Method 1:

Goto Start > Run > in the box copy and paste this

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

and press OK.

Method 2:

Download and run this registry fix,  from HERE

Off course, always restart PC or Re-login for the changes to take effect when u make changes in the registry.

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In my earlier article i wrote about streaming TV over then LAN. The same way you can start your LAN RADIO using winamp and other two small softwares that will help you stream audio at desired bit-rate. Now, you can share you favorite music with your friends on your LAN.

You will need the Following Softwares:

1. Winamp : You can download the latest version here.
2. SHOUTCAST DSP : Plugin:Download here
3. SHOUTCAST server : Download here

Before setting up the whole thing  you should know what you are doing, so you know where to start the troubleshooting if something goes wrong.

What is SHOUTcast? What is DSP plugin? What is a shoutcast server?

Okay, i’ll put this in simple words, As you all know when we broadcast any media you need a server to hold the incoming requests and respond to those requests. The SHOUTcast server accepts, establishes and logs the incoming connections.

The Shoutcast DSP plugin tells the server that it’s streaming the audio from winamp on the defined port  at the defined bit-rate.

Now that you have a brief idea, lets start:

I assume that you have download and installed the Winamp player, Shoutcast DSP plugin and SHOUTcast Server. If not yet, download from the links above.

• Open Winamp player Select OPTIONS > PREFERENCES (Ctrl + P)

now in the WINAMP PREFERENCES window

Select DSP/Effect which is under “Plug-ins”(left panel). in the Right panel select “Nullsoft SHOUTcast  source DSP” and click the “configure active plug-in” button.

A new “SHOUTcast source” plugin window will pop which looks like this:

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Leave the settings in the OUTPUT > Connection section unchanged.

You can edit the text in OUTPUT > Yellowpages (this will be displayed in the playlist of the remote listener). I have added my URL and edited the Description of the server. Check the images below.

Enter the bit-rate at which you wish to stream the audio in the Encoder section.

By default is 40kbps, i usually use 256kbps.(at least 128kbps recommended)

You are done with the SHOUTCAST Source setting.

• Start the server from start >all programs . A Server Monitor GUI will open with the even log.

Ok now start the music and Press the Connect button in the SHOUTCAST source.

Winamp > SHOUTcast source window > Output Tab  > Press CONNECT.

My Machine IP is 172.16.4.8 and i am broadcast the audio on default port 8000, so  my broadcasting link will be http://172.16.4.8:8000

The remote users have to open his URL their media player.

For Demo I have opened the URL in my Windows Media Player (File > Open URL > http://172.16.4.8:8000)

Here is the screenshot of how it looks when the link is played .

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Thats all, give this URL http://UR-IP:8000/ to LAN users and they can hear what you streaming.

You can always change the port number on which you have to broadcast incase you have some other application running already on that port. All you have to do is Edit the portbase value.

By default the value is  “Portbase:8000”.

Change the value to your desired port by editing the sc_serv.ini file.

If you have any problem configuring, feel free to contact me.

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