The latest version of our favorite tagging application has been released. Mp3tag 2.38 has a lot of fixes and some great new features. Some of the most anticipated features include support the latest lossless format TAK, support for importing cover art from the clipboard, displaying of cover art in main window, FLAC cover art support, […]

Talkhouse, LLC who are known for there speech activated retrieval system have released a new media player with an interesting feature. The new Talkhouse media player allows users to navigate, manage and player there media files using voice activation. This is accomplished using the space bar so by holding down the space bar the voice […]

I wanted to share an interesting tool that I setup for my sister who is an avid iTunes user but also has a HTPC running Media Center Edition. Until now iTunes content was restricted to iTunes but with this tool iTunes protected content such as movies, music and TV shows can be played through […]

If you are looking to have TIVO-like control over your favorite internet radio stations then we might have a solution for you. iRecordMusic is a internet audio recorder with support for realtime encoding to AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 (LAME) and FLAC. It also has the ability to schedule recordings using iCal which is one of […]

We recently came across an interesting lossless audio tool for MAC OS X users. The X Lossless Decoder (XLD) can encode, decode and play a variety of lossless audio formats.
Supported formats include:

Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
Wavpack (.wv)
TTA (.tta)
Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 only]
AIFF, WAV, etc

Compatible with 10.3 and up XLD is actively developed and was recently […]

The folks over at Freeverse have released the latest version of there recording and editing software Sound Studio 3. This latest version adds much needed support for Apple Lossless as well as ADTS AAC, NeXT/Sun Audio and Ogg Vorbis. Also new to version 3.5 is a ID3 tag and iTunes metadata editor. Sound Studio […]

 
I came across an interesting media transcoder called MediaCoder that is free and open-source. MediaCoder is available under the GPL license and combines many popular audio and video tools from the open source community into one package. Format support is plentiful with support for FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless and WAV/PCM as […]

The latest version of one of my favorite plugins, the WMP Tag Support Extender (WMPTSE) is now available. WMPTSE extends metatag support in Windows Media Player 9,10 and 11. Because MCE 2004 and 2005 are based on Windows Media Player it works with Media Center Edition 2004 and 2005 as well. See our WMP/MCE Guide […]

A new version of the Mac sound editor Amadeus has just been released for Mac OS X. Amadeus Pro V. 1.0 adds a host of new features including multi-track editing, faster editing of large (2GB+) files, analysis tools and last but not least the Favorite Actions tool. The Favorite Actions tool allows you to […]

The powerful audio toolkit Media Rage has been updated to a new version with a host of welcome features and bugfixes.
MediaRage 3 is the latest offering from Chaotic Software, purveyors of Mac OS X tools but best known for Media Rage.
This took kit features all of the wepons you need to battle your audio files […]

It is great to see new tools and utilities that enhance the management of lossless audio files. One of these tools is AutoFlac. AutoFlac is a script that works with EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to create individual Flac files or a single Flac file along with .Cue and .Log file creation. There is a thread […]

I have been working on transfering my wife’s first radio shows from tape to FLAC. In researching the project Audacity quickly rose to the top as a great solution for recording and editing. Audacity 1.32 which is still in beta adds a bunch of useful new features including FLAC encoding, project saving and recovery […]

Roxio just released RecordNow 9 Music Lab Premier, the latest version of their audio management and creation tool has a long list of features including web radio capture, playlist creation, mobile phone ring creation tool and noise removal to name a few. The feature we are most interested in is the addition of support for FLAC. Other […]

Version 0.7 has brought big improvements to this lossless audio application for the MAC OS X operating system. MAX can encode and decode to over 20 formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE which makes it a must have for any MAC users who need to convert their lossless […]

We have seen an increasing number of media player software that support the more exotic lossless audio formats. With that in mind my thought is…….get it together Microsoft and Apple! People want to have a choice and be able to play their favorite format in their favorite media player. Until then we will search high […]