14 Great Multimedia Utilities

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 17:50

14 Great Multimedia Utilities

Need to record and clean up music, edit video or sound, burn DVDs, and handle other multimedia tasks? We've assembled some free and try-before-you-buy tools that you won't want to live without.

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Your PC is an entertainment powerhouse, just waiting to be unleashed. Its talents include recording and playing music, supporting editing of audio and video files, and burning DVDs and CDs. Unfortunately, the software that came with your PC probably won't handle these tasks with maximum effectiveness. So to help you unlock your system's multimedia power, we've gathered a group of 15 downloads--most of them free, some of them try-before-you-buy--that all do great jobs.

Most of these software are free the ones that aren't you can try to search for them in different torrent sites.

For a list of free softwares in a larger category that you can download check out the following thread

Props and kudos to white_hat

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 17:50

Media Players and Burners

Video Software

Audio Software

Free YouTube Uploader

VirtualDub

DVD Shrink

AVI/MPEG/RM/WMV Joiner

Xilisoft iPod Video Converter

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:00

Foxy Tunes

If you spend a significant portion of your life surfing the Web while listening to music on your PC, you probably have to put up with an annoying problem: Your media player (Windows Media Player, say) is probably a rather bloated application, and all too often you must switch back and forth between your browser and your player to pause songs, jump to the next track, increase the volume, and so on.

Foxy Tunes corrects the problem. Though it runs as an unobtrusive toolbar in your system tray, it offers you a full set of media controls in the form of small clickable icons. The program identifies what's playing (including displaying the album art), is skinnable, and can be controlled via keyboard shortcuts. It supports more than 30 media players, and runs as a Firefox extension, though it also works in SeaMonkey and Flock browsers, as well as in Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client. A beta version of Foxy Tunes for Internet Explorer is in the works.

Download FoxyTunes

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:07

JetAudio Basic

Not happy with your current media player? Then it's time to switch to this surprisingly full-featured freebie. It plays many kinds of audio and video files, of course, and it also lets you rip music, burn CDs, and even record music from various incoming sources. Its built-in Internet radio player displays dozens of Internet-based radio stations.

And if confusing media players exhaust you, you'll welcome JetAudio's stripped-down interface and simple method of browsing for files. Another nice plus: You don't have to use the main player controls--a nifty little bar that appears across the bottom of your screen supports such options as playing music, ripping music, and burning CDs.

Download Jet Audio

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:11

VLC Media Player

In a world that seems to see a new type of media format launched every day, it's easy for media players to run into problems playing certain types of files. In particular, Windows Media Player often tells listeners that they need a special codec in order to open a particular media type. But finding a specific codec can be aggravatingly problematic

The free VLC application plays an astonishing array of media types--so many that you may never encounter a type it can't play. Minimalists will love its simple interface; in fact, it's about as stripped-down a program as you'll ever find.

Download Jet Audio

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:21

Online Radio Tuner

The Internet is bursting with free radio stations that offer specialized formats--jazz, classical, dance trance, alternative rock, or just about anything else.

How do you navigate through the embarrassment of riches to find the stations you want? With Online Radio Tuner. This shareware categorizes radio stations into several dozen genres, and lets you listen to any of them with a click or two. It constantly updates its list, too, so you always have the access to latest stations. And since the player is small and unobtrusive, it can sit in the background while you listen.

Download Online Radio Tuner

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:24

Express Burn

Sometimes all you want to do is burn, baby, burn. For those occasions, you'll want this program, which has pretty much every feature you could ask for in burning software. It can handle music and data CDs, video and data DVDs, data HD DVDs, and even data Blu-ray disks. Before you burn, you can see how much space is left on the disk, so you can make sure that it will all fit. You'll find that it's easy to remove or add data or audio and video.

Prior to burning audio CDs, the program normalizes all of the tracks so that they record at a consistent volume, instead of jumping from a whisper to a scream without warning. You can copy entire discs, too. Express Burn is shareware, and it costs $27 to register.

Download Express Burn

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:27

TubeMe

Ever wished you could save a YouTube video to your hard drive? This simple freebie for lets you can do the trick, rendering any YouTube video as savable .flv file. Afterward you can play the video with any media player, send it to friends, burn it to disk, or whatever. You'll need your media player to do handle those operations; this program simply converts and downloads the files.

To copy the videos to your hard disk, just copy their links to TubeMe, and click a few buttons. You can queue up multiple files and download them en masse. Windows Media Player, by the way, won't play .flv files. But the ever-useful VLC Media Player plays them without a hitch

Download TubeMe

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:31

Free YouTube Uploader

As its name indicates, this program is designed to upload videos to YouTube. Run the program and enter your user name and password, and it logs you into YouTube. Then select your video, write a title and description, add tags, and walk through the simple steps of uploading the video, including selecting a category.

Free YouTube Uploader does more than just automate video uploading. Because YouTube enforces a limit of 10 minutes or 100MB per video, the program includes an easy-to-use video trimmer that you can use to pare down the video you want before uploading it.

Download Free YouTube Uploader

**Prodigy** · 29-05-07, 20:34

VirtualDub

This wonderful file for video processing geeks serves as a kind of free, open-source "Photoshop" application for video.

At a basic level, it can capture video and enable you to save it. But beyond that, it's a very good tool for cleaning up and trimming video--especially if you want to use it in concert with a more full-featured video editing program. It lets you crop or compress video, remove and replace audio tracks without changing the video, and use filters to sharpen and blur. You can even delete individual frames. Highly recommended.

Download VirtualDub

29-05-07, 17:50	#1 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	14 Great Multimedia Utilities 14 Great Multimedia Utilities Need to record and clean up music, edit video or sound, burn DVDs, and handle other multimedia tasks? We've assembled some free and try-before-you-buy tools that you won't want to live without. ___________________________________________ Your PC is an entertainment powerhouse, just waiting to be unleashed. Its talents include recording and playing music, supporting editing of audio and video files, and burning DVDs and CDs. Unfortunately, the software that came with your PC probably won't handle these tasks with maximum effectiveness. So to help you unlock your system's multimedia power, we've gathered a group of 15 downloads--most of them free, some of them try-before-you-buy--that all do great jobs. Most of these software are free the ones that aren't you can try to search for them in different torrent sites. For a list of free softwares in a larger category that you can download check out the following thread Props and kudos to white_hat __________________ Last edited by Prodigy; 05-10-07 at 18:59.

29-05-07, 20:00	#3 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	Foxy Tunes If you spend a significant portion of your life surfing the Web while listening to music on your PC, you probably have to put up with an annoying problem: Your media player (Windows Media Player, say) is probably a rather bloated application, and all too often you must switch back and forth between your browser and your player to pause songs, jump to the next track, increase the volume, and so on. Foxy Tunes corrects the problem. Though it runs as an unobtrusive toolbar in your system tray, it offers you a full set of media controls in the form of small clickable icons. The program identifies what's playing (including displaying the album art), is skinnable, and can be controlled via keyboard shortcuts. It supports more than 30 media players, and runs as a Firefox extension, though it also works in SeaMonkey and Flock browsers, as well as in Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client. A beta version of Foxy Tunes for Internet Explorer is in the works. Download FoxyTunes

29-05-07, 20:07	#4 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	JetAudio Basic Not happy with your current media player? Then it's time to switch to this surprisingly full-featured freebie. It plays many kinds of audio and video files, of course, and it also lets you rip music, burn CDs, and even record music from various incoming sources. Its built-in Internet radio player displays dozens of Internet-based radio stations. And if confusing media players exhaust you, you'll welcome JetAudio's stripped-down interface and simple method of browsing for files. Another nice plus: You don't have to use the main player controls--a nifty little bar that appears across the bottom of your screen supports such options as playing music, ripping music, and burning CDs. Download Jet Audio

29-05-07, 20:11	#5 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	VLC Media Player In a world that seems to see a new type of media format launched every day, it's easy for media players to run into problems playing certain types of files. In particular, Windows Media Player often tells listeners that they need a special codec in order to open a particular media type. But finding a specific codec can be aggravatingly problematic The free VLC application plays an astonishing array of media types--so many that you may never encounter a type it can't play. Minimalists will love its simple interface; in fact, it's about as stripped-down a program as you'll ever find. Download Jet Audio

29-05-07, 20:21	#6 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	Online Radio Tuner The Internet is bursting with free radio stations that offer specialized formats--jazz, classical, dance trance, alternative rock, or just about anything else. How do you navigate through the embarrassment of riches to find the stations you want? With Online Radio Tuner. This shareware categorizes radio stations into several dozen genres, and lets you listen to any of them with a click or two. It constantly updates its list, too, so you always have the access to latest stations. And since the player is small and unobtrusive, it can sit in the background while you listen. Download Online Radio Tuner

29-05-07, 20:24	#7 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	Express Burn Sometimes all you want to do is burn, baby, burn. For those occasions, you'll want this program, which has pretty much every feature you could ask for in burning software. It can handle music and data CDs, video and data DVDs, data HD DVDs, and even data Blu-ray disks. Before you burn, you can see how much space is left on the disk, so you can make sure that it will all fit. You'll find that it's easy to remove or add data or audio and video. Prior to burning audio CDs, the program normalizes all of the tracks so that they record at a consistent volume, instead of jumping from a whisper to a scream without warning. You can copy entire discs, too. Express Burn is shareware, and it costs $27 to register. Download Express Burn

29-05-07, 20:27	#8 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	TubeMe Ever wished you could save a YouTube video to your hard drive? This simple freebie for lets you can do the trick, rendering any YouTube video as savable .flv file. Afterward you can play the video with any media player, send it to friends, burn it to disk, or whatever. You'll need your media player to do handle those operations; this program simply converts and downloads the files. To copy the videos to your hard disk, just copy their links to TubeMe, and click a few buttons. You can queue up multiple files and download them en masse. Windows Media Player, by the way, won't play .flv files. But the ever-useful VLC Media Player plays them without a hitch Download TubeMe

29-05-07, 20:31	#9 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	Free YouTube Uploader As its name indicates, this program is designed to upload videos to YouTube. Run the program and enter your user name and password, and it logs you into YouTube. Then select your video, write a title and description, add tags, and walk through the simple steps of uploading the video, including selecting a category. Free YouTube Uploader does more than just automate video uploading. Because YouTube enforces a limit of 10 minutes or 100MB per video, the program includes an easy-to-use video trimmer that you can use to pare down the video you want before uploading it. Download Free YouTube Uploader

29-05-07, 20:34	#10 (permalink)
Prodigy Staff Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: U.A.E, Dubai Posts: 2,651 Credits: 14,343 Thanks: 130 Thanked 497 Times in 258 Posts	VirtualDub This wonderful file for video processing geeks serves as a kind of free, open-source "Photoshop" application for video. At a basic level, it can capture video and enable you to save it. But beyond that, it's a very good tool for cleaning up and trimming video--especially if you want to use it in concert with a more full-featured video editing program. It lets you crop or compress video, remove and replace audio tracks without changing the video, and use filters to sharpen and blur. You can even delete individual frames. Highly recommended. Download VirtualDub

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