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Songr is a completely free and small application which we can use to search over 16 music engines and directly download files within the app. And even more, we can download YouTube high-quality videos and if we prefer, just extracting and downloading the audio from the video.
Since the Napster blast, the web did not have the chance to unify a good way for users to get music for free (and legally); tons of sites and applications appeared but not all of them are famous. Songr is one of those that are in fact quite powerful. You can download it from this link.
Here are some of the features:
Songr aggregates results from 16 mp3 search engines
Full album search- Download HQ/HD YouTube videos and optionally extracts the audio track as mp3
- It grays out low bitrate preview-only and mp3s
- Intelligent sorting: Songr tries to display high quality mp3s on the top of the list
- Double clicking a mp3 file opens it directly in Windows Media Player
- Songr converts links that point to a web page instead of the mp3 file
- It makes possible to discover the name of a song by typing some words in the Search by lyrics panel and listen to a preview of the song
- Automatic updates check, to get more search engine connectors
- Automatic mode
- Links to buy music from Amazon and Rhapsody
- It’s freeware, without ads or restrictions
The supported MP3 search engines: Audiodump.com, BeeMp3.com, DilanDau.com, 4shared.com, Goear.com, Hypster.com, Iask.com, JustHearIt.com (YouTube videos), Kohit.net, Mp3000.net, Mp3Realm.org, Mpeg-Search.com, Skreemr.com, Socbay.com, Soso.com, Wrzuta.pl.
ListenToYouTube.com is a simple and free web app which we can use to extract the audio from a YouTube video. No registration required, we only need the YouTube URL and we are ready to go.
There are several sites and applications available to do this, but this is one of the simplest we can find.
- Just access the web site ListenToYouTube.com.
- Copy/Paste the YouTube URL. Click Go.
- Wait a few seconds until the video is retrieved to a server, removed the audio and make it available to download.
We can even choose the type of quality of the audio we are going to download, standard or high quality.
I’m a huge music lover and as such I’m always looking out for the latest and greatest pair of headphones that can provide me the greatest quality of audio. Sometimes it’s not always in the most expensive pair, but there’s lots of trial and error until you find the brand you’re most comfortable with. Because price is such an issue can be hard to justify the purchase of a $300+ pair of headphones when the money is tight, so the release of these new Kicker headphones is definitely timely.
The new Kicker HP1973 Over-the-Eat Headphones are a great buy for a mid-range pair of headphones. Having hard a pair of Kickers in the past, these headphones are sure to get you the sound you’re looking for without breaking the bank. The classic retro look is being promoted to both music lovers and musicians alike for any of their needs. They feature a lightweight over-the-ear design, padded headband, black braided cloth cable, a 3.5mm iPhone-compatible plug, and a sleek black paint job.
The inspiration for the design is stated in the name, 1973, when the only way to hear great music was with a pair of cans like these. The dynamic full range of audio will, as they say, hit all the highs and lows of your favorite tunes. Coming in at $70, it’s a fair price to ask for style and substance.
As an audio content creator, I’m always looking for ways to record better audio, whether it’s in my in-home studio or on my mobile as I’m on the go. Too often I find myself with opportunities to record a quick sound byte while attending conventions, meetings, seminars, or running into people across town. I’ve tested a lot of audio equipment out, but to fit my needs the real winner has been Blue Microphones.
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I’m a huge fan of music. I’ve got several versions of the iPod for a variety of occasions, I’ve got streaming music players all over my computer, I’ve got sites bookmarked that stream audio from overseas; for me, there’s just nothing better than paying music for inspiration, clarity, and nostalgia. To increase my music listening abilities I’ve used plugins such as FoxyTunes to give me access to my music straight from my browser, but what if I’m not home or on my laptop. There’s a good chance I’ve got my mobile on me and I can stream from there, but for those of us always changing computers, or using public computers, there’s now an interesting option that we can participate with.
Stereo8 is a new stream audio web app that streams straight from your browser. No downloading, no installing, no problems. Just about any browser should work (I tested on Safari, Firefox, IE6 and IE7, Opera, and Chrome). Simply select a genre of music you want to listen to, and let the music play. You can interact with the music by voting on what you like, and those votes determine what’s played. Stereo8 calls it self a true internet radio with a twist. That twist is that listeners can vote and share music with one another making it a social community of sorts.
As I write this article I’ve picked the video game category and have listened to some of the biggest games from my present and past. In some of the other categories I was listening to songs that perhaps I was not a fan of myself, and some more obscure songs that I never even knew existed, which is not always a good thing. But if you’re looking to be introduced to something new and unique, far from the beaten path you’re used to traveling, then perhaps Stereo8 is for you. A few stations I found really solid, and just now they started playing the Terran theme from Starcraft, so that’s just an idea of the kind of music you’ll be listening to (at least on the game channel).
It never fails that sometimes when I try to import my music CD’s that I don’t have the right album art to show in my music player. When it comes to music I’m picky, and I like my music to be labeled correctly, ratings, rankings, album names, and definitely album art.
If you’re like me, then All CD Covers might be the place to stop in order to fill the missing void of album art you might have in your playlist. With over 100,000 album art and growing, there is a good chance you’ll find what you need.
As an added bonus they also offer movie and game cover art for all of your media. It’s a nice one stop shop to get yourself caught up and make your file listings attractive and cataloged just right.
Last week I ran into a small problem when trying to put an audio book onto my iPod. The audio book was in .wma, or Windows Media Audio format, my iPod doesn’t like that format. A quick Google searches lead me to one of the simplest pieces of conversion software that I’ve used in some time.
Switch is a multi-platform dead simple program to use. Simply tell it where the directory of files lives that you want to convert, point it to the directory where you want them to end up (or the same one), along with what format you want them converted into and click a button. I seriously wish more software was this easy to use.
On my core 2 duo Macbook with 2GB of RAM it took about 4 hours to convert 12 .wma files into 192 kb/s .mp3’s. This isn’t a five-minute job to do, and I fully expected it to take some time, so plan ahead.
Sound quality, to my untrained ears was identical.
Ease of use for this multi-platform software, being able to handle dozens of file formats and being free means this small app will stay installed for some time.
