Setup Your Own Radio Station on Windows OS

I know there is a lot of guys out there who are really fascinated by the people down radio show and always wish to have one, including me. Well, now you can get your own radio show and your own radio station.

This tutorial required a bit of your computer skills to setup your radio station.

To begin with, you need ShoutCast, Winamp, and a good internet connection to host your radio station.

First, get you need Winamp, it’s a free software, you can easily download it here. Then get Shoutcast D.N.A.S. You also need Shoutcast DSP plug-in for Winamp. Read More »

How to prevent your playlist in winamp from getting lost out

I have been using winamp from a long time as a music player, it is I think the best player which is free also, but initially when I use winamp for the first time I found a issue in it.

Let me tell you how does it happen.

I used to enqueue some songs from different directory locations ,and issue arises when accidentally I double click on any .mp3 file due to which all the playlist which I collected in winamp got evaded in seconds and the only songs which remain there is that on which I have accidentally double clicked. It may have happened to you some time if you have used winamp. Read More »

Kwik Kool Kantaris

It’s been a while since we featured a media player but it’s been worth the wait. Hot out of the box is Kataris a free Open Source player based on a past favourite, VLC, but all you really need to know is that it can play just about any type of multimedia file, Here’s the highlights: AAC, AC3, AVI, FLAC, MID, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, OGG, QuickTime, Matroska, DIVX, XVID, H264, MP3, WAV WMA and many, many more. There’s also integration with Apple Movie Trailers and Last FM, plus some really freaky visualisations.

The Right Mixxx

I have to say straight away that the last time I did any DJ-ing, record players still had a 78rpm speed setting. I freely admit to being a bit out of touch with current trends, but I’m reliably informed that this free Open Source program, called Mixxx is just the job for all of you hep cats out there who enjoy mixing your tunes and generally fiddling around with musical tracks. Key features, so I’m told, include the ability to read new fangled music formats, like MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Wave (something to do with turntable speed, I suppose…), it can import M3U and PLS playlists, whatever they are, and it has Beat Estimation and Pitch Independent Time Stretch features, which is probably a good thing. Read More »

Watch Out Windows

Radio, phone, GPS, MP3 player, TV, camera… been there done that, but just when you thought there wasn’t anything else that could be shoehorned into a wristwatch, think again. A company called Epoq has managed to fit a copy of Windows Mobile onto one, which you drive using a 1.4-inch OLED touch screen, and just for good measure the EGP-98B has built in 1.3MP camera, wi-fi, Bluetooth and a 4-band GSM phone. Now, it might all be a wind-up (pun intended) because details and availability are all very sketchy, and good images are also hard to find. Read More »

How To Clean Up Your MP3 Library

If your digital-music library is more than a few years old, chances are it contains songs from a variety of sources: ripped CDs, peer-to-peer services, online music stores, good-hearted friends, and so on. The only problem with such an eclectic collection is that nothing’s consistent: Volume levels jump up and down from one song to the next, album art shows up sporadically, and the ID3 tags well, let’s just say the band that sings “American Idiot” isn’t named Greene Dye. Thankfully, these are easy problems to fix, if you have the right tools. We’ll show you how to change tags and find album art as well as tweak volume levels using freeware apps. Read More »

How to Buy an MP3 Player

MP3 players are one too many these days. Music on the move is fine, but being bombarded with choices can be quite a pain when you are ready to buy one. Do you go with a well known name, such as Apple and their iPod or do you take a chance on a cheaper, not so well known maker? Well, to make your decision a little easier, here is a rough guide on what to look for when buying an MP3 player.

Memory

Memory is the key to an MP3 player. Therefore, the greater the memory, the better it is. You can store that many more songs and so on. There’s nothing like it! Read More »

MP3 Player for The Dolphins

Music addicts out there who like to swim have now the chance to listen to their favorite music underwater with the only condition to get the latest item in the waterproof electronics industry. This time, is Oregon Scientific MP120 fully waterproof MP3 player.

What’s interesting about this device is its capability of functioning underwater, at a maximum depth of about 1 meter. What sucks is the amount of time it does that, reduced to a shameful 30 minutes. But hey, you have to admit it’s cool, since your heart won’t let you submerge your precious iPod underwater. Unless you get one of these. By “these” I mean the H2O iPod Underwater Housing, which was specially designed to keep the most important components of your electronics away from the water. This time, the design line is not bad either. Read More »

Free DVD to MP3 Ripper

Over the past few months I’ve had a lot of people asking me how they can extract the soundtrack form a DVD so they can listen to it on a MP3 player or iPod and my usual response has been to play the disc back on a PC and use the most excellent Audacity freeware editor/recorder to capture the audio, then export it as an MP3 file. It works well, bout now there’s an even easier way a freeware utility called Free DVD MP3 Ripper. It couldn’t be simpler, just pop in a DVD, select the part of the recording you want to extract, Read More »