Finally there’s a solid and reliable solution for converting and managing all your media files in one place. It’s called FreeStudio from DVDVideoSoft. I first came across this program when I was trying to find a quick and easy way to convert my .avi files to →
Speak directly into your PC with DictationPro speech-to-text
I didn’t expect to see it, but here it is: a freeware speech recognition software, and a good one at that. DictationPro is a full-fledged speech-to-text software that can recognize words spoken through a microphone with a high degree of accuracy. It is ‘trainable’ such as →
Convert audio formats, combine audio files, and extract audio tracks from videos with Freemake Audio Converter
Now that your entire music collection, your audio books, and videos, (and even your family recordings from when you were eight) are on a hard drive, you might want to have a dependable, user-friendly tool to convert across different audio formats, as well as for performing →
Stream your music, playlists, podcasts to multiple PC’s and devices with AudioGalaxy
Let’s say you’ve got a snazzy, large music collection on your hard drive at home, and that you would like to take it with you; get access to it from your computer at work, from your iPhone or Android device. And let’s say you want to →
Fix the audio in podcasts or camcorder footage conversations with “The Levelator”
Have you ever heard recorded audio where the voice of the interviewer was so much louder than the voices of his/her interlocutors, or vice versa, or some of the guests were closer to the microphone and thus were louder than others? Certainly you’ve seen this if →
Integrate Last.fm and Grooveshark into your desktop with GrooveWalrus
Another app that proves that our local music and the music we listen to online are becoming one and the same. GrooveWalrus is a free music desktop client that connects to your Last.fm and Grooveshark accounts and provides instant access to these on the desktop. But →
Get detailed information on media files right in file/properties with MediaTab
Ever wish you could quickly look up a media file’s detailed information, such as bitrate, video codec, audio codec, aspect ratio, duration, audio tag info, or anything else you might imagine? You might already know that MediaInfo gives you detailed information about your media files. But →
Groovedown: download MP3s from Grooveshark quickly and easily
These days, there are many services where you can just type in the name of the song or artist you are interested in and instantly download the mp3. Most people use YouTube (which typically involves converting a video to an Mp3), or even Google. But in →
Volume2: a beautiful volume control app
Let’s say you have a program that lets you control system volume via the mouse and/or via user-defined hotkeys. Let’s also say that it can display stylish volume sliders on screen, and lets you choose from many different skins for these. And, moreover, let’s say that →
MiniLyrics: displays song lyrics, synchronized to your music
How would you like to be able to see your song lyrics on-screen in step with your music? Minilyrics is an add-on for a wide range of popular music players that downloads and displays lyrics, and synchronizes them to the music. Supported music players include: Winamp, →
Creevity MP3 Cover Downloader: add cover art to every audio file in your collection
Do your songs lack cover art? do you feel annoyed to have to stare at a generic file icon while everyone else (at least in iPhone commercials) looks at glorious, colorful cover art? This software can help. Creevity MP3 Cover Downloader is a free software that →
Freac: powerful audio converter and CD ripper, optimized for multi-core PCs
While there are many free programs that can rip CD’s and perform audio file conversions, many of them do not support multi-core processing. For most modern PC’s this means that the software does not utilize the full processing power of your machine, resulting in longer encoding →
