It’s always practical to have a gaming device at hand when your on the move It sounds little bit nerdy but true it is. You never know when you’re going to end up in line, stuck in traffic, or locked in an elevator for three days in a row.
However, before I switched Windows Mobile, getting some decent games on my pre-historic cellphone was pretty much impossible, and one doesn’t string a PSP around his neck all day and expect to be popular with the ladies. So, imagine my joy when I got to know that there are free games for iPod that I can download!
These games, which were mainly meant to be downloaded from the iTunes store, could help you kill that little time that was still moving, and although gaming sounds highly impractical with a scroll-click-weel and a center button, they’re great fun i must say.
However, paying for these games gets old quick. Especially because you’re paying 5 bucks (or 5 Euros - people really don’t seem to know how to convert prices) for games you’ve played in your browser a few years ago, like Tetris and music quizzes.
The problem with the iPod’s freeware games market is Apple’s overprotectiveness. It’s not easy to put games on your iPod that weren’t bought in iTunes. But today, we’re going to show you how it’s done.
Please Note: that the iPods supported by this tutorial are the iPod Video 5G and 5.5G (pictured above). Trying this with iPod Nano’s, iPod Classics, or any of the newer models will be bound to result in failure (and there is no other alternative but installing Linux on your iPod).
Either way, everything described in this tutorial, you do on your own risk. Everything 3.1 is not responsible for any potential problems, or damage to your iPod.
So let’s get started,
Prepping your iPod for free games
The process consists of three parts. First, we’re going to make sure iTunes won’t undo all our hard work with the next synchronisation. Then, we’ll need to copy the necessary files and folders to our iPod, and finally, we’re going to patch our firmware.
Configuring iTunes
First of all, let’s fire up iTunes and disable a few options. In Devices - iPod - Options in the Summary tab, make sure that Enable disk use is checked.
Also, go to the Games tab and disable the Sync games box.
Now, close iTunes and make sure your iPod is mounted. If not, remove it and plug it in again.
Moving the files
Next, configure Windows Explorer to display hidden files and folders. If you’re using XP, go to Tools - Folder Options. On Vista, this option can be found in Organize - Folder and Search Options.
In the View tab, make sure Show hidden files and folders is enabled.
Open your mounted iPod in Windows Explorer and navigate to iPod_ControlGames_RO and extract the hex folder of your downloaded games. Read more about where to get these games at the bottom of the article.
Patching your iPod
For this one, you’ll need to download iPodWizard (v1.3) and the right firmware file - 5G or 5.5G. If you don’t know for certain which you need, the 5.5G iPod is the one with search function.
Fire up iPodWizard and make sure the edit mode is set to Firmware File. Then, browse to the correct firmware. Finally, press Write to iPod and follow the directions on your screen.
Yo! Congratulations, you should now be able to find your games on your iPod under extras. Have fun!
Download Free iPod Games
If you do a quick Google search, a few sites will pop up where you can find free games for your iPod that you can download, one of those sites is Emobilez. This site offers a wide variety of free mobile/portable software, and has a healthy arsenal of games as well.
Although I’ve got my doubts with some of them (e.g. Lost and Zuma), all games are believed to be in the public domain.
Anyways, Happing Gaming!!! (:
Most users/readers would probably agree with me that Apple’s iTunes software is not a lightweight software. To the contrary. The application takes a lot of time to load sometimes and is heavy and some will see it as an overkill if you only want to transfer music from and to an iPod. That’s where iTunes software alternative comes into play.
Froddle Pod is an iTunes alternative and it's absolutely free. It certainly is not as feature rich as iTunes but it provides access to the main features that an iPod owner needs. It can copy music and videos from and to an iPod which is definitely the main and must reguired feature that any iTunes alternative should support.
The software can also backup and restore all data that is stored on an iPod. Another nice feature is music normalization for all or selected music on the iPod.
It supports the following iPod models currently: iPod Nano (all), iPod Mini (all), iPod Classic (3rd to 6th generation). No support for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch yet.
The software did check for and download the Microsoft Visual J# Distributable which takes up 80 Megabytes of space on the hard drive.
Try it and tell other Everything 3.1 readers if you like it or not!
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Yesss!!! Let me set the scene for you. You ere at a Bon Jovi concert and you’re lucky enough to be in the front row! The band starts up playing “Living On A Prayer” and the arena erupts with excitement. The whole crowd is belting out the lyrics when it comes time for the chorus. All together the crowd goes “WWWOOOOAAAH!” then Jon sticks the mic out for the crowd to join in and it happens to be in front of your face. You scream “We are almost there!” BBUUZZZ, what have you done? Wrong! The crowd dies down, the band stops and you realize that you have just killed the concert.
I’ve searched and scanned the World Wide Web to save you from ever having to encounter this and found the three best sites on the net for song lyrics. I evaluated them for a vast library of Pop, Oldies, Indie and everything in between. The sites need to be easy to navigate, the design should lend itself well to lyric browsing and the search function should be prominent without too many cheap ads & pop-ups getting in your way (let’s face it, they have to make money somehow).
So, here we go - counting down from number three to number one.
3 - MetroLyrics.com
In a huge leap forward, MetroLyrics stands heads and tails above LyricsPlanet. Upon visiting this site, you are presented with lots of valuable information about the music world. You are shown upcoming hot releases, the real current top hits and a nice and neat search bar.
One nice feature about their search is that you can type just the parts of lyrics that you remember and it will find you that song. (Similar to sites Lyrster and Lyricsfly) Remember that time you were humming a tune and wondered what on earth that was from? MetroLyrics can tell you.
Navigating the site was quite easy but the way the search results were presented threw me off a little bit. The results are presented with the Artist and Song Title highlighted on different sides of the column and then partial lyrics displayed below which confused me. All in all, I’d say they have a large selection, easy enough navigation, great search capability and some good features, like a handy iTunes plugin and a forum that distinguish it from the rest. It is worth your time to check out.
2 - LetsSingIt.com
LetsSingIt is where the lines start to blur between music discovery site and lyrics site which works extremely well. They have an extremely powerful search box prominent on the homepage that made it simple to find any song, artist or lyrics you’re looking for. I got creative and decided to look up MC Hammer on this site. Of course, I went for “You Can’t Touch This”.
As you’d expect I was presented with the correct lyrics for the song but LetsSingIt gives you so much more. There is an artist bio, discography, top songs, pictures, fan pages and the feature that really made the site stand out, a YouTube video of the song embedded in the page. These videos are embedded by the users of the site and are all correctable by other users in case one of the links dies. The video feature made it fun to read along with the lyrics while you rock out to you’re old pal, MC Hammer.
I was torn between the top two sites in this roundup. LetsSingIt fell to #2 due to their design. I think they tried to pack too much into their pages and it makes it seem cluttered. The information is great and visible but in the sidebars, you can get lost.
1 - Lyrics.com
If you’re looking for lyrics online, I say that there’s no better place to go besides Lyrics.com and with a domain name like that, they’d better be good. All of the features from the previous two sites are combined into one and then made even better by the folks at Lyrics. You are presented with a clean, impressive design with minimal ads.
There is great information such as new releases, top hits and most popular songs displayed right on the homepage. A powerful search bar resides on the top that allows you to search for lyrics, songs and artists. Results are displayed in a clean, easy to read way. There is a great community built around the music with many people for you to interact with.
Lyrics pages present you with not only the lyrics but also with a video to rock out to as you scream the lyrics at the top of your lungs. One feature that set this site apart was the dedication section. Those of you love birds out there will like this section to share meaningful songs with your special someone.
Out of all the sites I tried out for this round up, Lyrics.com really impressed me the most. It is certainly the best place on the internet to find any song lyrics.
Do you use or know any other site, which you think we are missing in this post? Let us know in the comments.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
I’m sure you guys will agree that the one annoying thing when enjoying a random mix of your favorite tunes is the change in quality, especially in the volume. Since our music originates from so many different sources, quality is never the same, but variations in the volume are most unpleasant thing.
While it’s difficult to fix the overall quality, it’s rather easy to normalize the volume of any track with the right tool. That’s where MP3Gain comes in.
MP3Gain, does statistical analysis to determine how loud a file sounds to the human ear. Most other normalizers work with peak normalization, normalizing a song’s value based on its loudest passage. Furthermore, you will love to hear that normalizing your MP3s with MP3Gain has no effect on the quality, as no decoding or encoding takes place.
The program was primarily written for Windows. However, there is a Linux GUI and a MacMP3Gain version available.
So how does it work? It’s pretty simple. You add files or folders and set the target volume. The default is 89,0 dB. In other tools, you will find up to 92,0 dB as a default volume for normalization. However, I would always go with the default of the respective tool, unless you know what you’re doing when changing this.
When you have added all files you wish to normalize, click the Analysis button. From there, you can select either Track or Album analysis in the pull-down menu. MP3Gain now analyzes each file to check the current volume and whether the file has clipping issues. The Track Gain indicates the increase or decrease in volume required to match the target volume. You can clear the results by selecting Clear Analysis from the Analysis button pull-down menu.
Once the analysis process is completed, you can click the Gain button to initiate the suggested changes. Note that there is also a drop-down menu for this button from which you can select Track, Album or Constant, depending on what type of adjustments you prefer. The included help file does a very good job of explaining what the differences are.
Should you realize that you’ve made the wrong selection, you can cancel anytime and undo all changes MP3Gain made. Simply add all of the edited files that were previously modified and select >Modify Gain >Undo Gain changes from the menu.
MP3Gain is the right tool to solve the issue of varying volume levels in any MP3 collection & very easily!!!
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Now you guys can easily record any sounds in mp3 format using the Free MP3 Voice Recorder. If you want to record a song then this is the best choice as you can decide the quality of mp3 file it would produce.
Not enough? Well, That’s not all. You can also record the sounds in many other formats, including AAC, WMA, WAV, AC3 etc.
Click here to download Free MP3 Voice Recorder.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Do you browse YouTube videos from your computer or laptop connected to your TV? or some other web-enabled device like cellphone, PDA etc.
I am so damn sure you've noticed that YouTube is far from optimized for your huge display. Google has heard all your bellyaching and ultimately super-sized YouTube for your TV!
So, if you’ve been wanting to play some YouTube videos on your TV, now is the best time to try it out. YouTube XL is another interface for accessing YouTube, except everything is huge!
As you can see above, the site’s format gives you a much easier time to click on icons or links that actually fill up the entire screen. When I tried this out on my tablet connected to my Sony 52” flat panel it was a breeze to navigate and play videos. It was love at first site!
I did a quick search by selecting the search box in the upper right hand corner away from all the other links and typed in Eminem.
Results were shown in an easy to choose format and playing a video was just so damn easy. I selected the top result and I was on to watching my video.
The controls are easy to use as they are also large and in charge.
You can do anything here that you can do on YouTube and it is a great user experience for us big fan of YouTube!
Thanks for listening Google/YouTube! Any one have any other requests? Let us know by posting it in the comments!
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
StreamTorrent is a free software program for the Windows operating system that allows users to watch - and stream - TV and videos over the Internet. The relatively unknown application provides access to hundreds of popular TV stations including BBC One, BBC Two, ESPN 360, Fox Sports 2, ESPN and HBO. The software uses P2P technology that is popular in similar applications like TVU Player which means that the computer’s bandwidth is used to stream the contents to other users.
Users start by clicking on File > Search in the menu to open the search interface which can be used to list all available channels or filtered channel lists either by keyword or pre-selection (e.g. sports, top 100). It is also possible to enter a keyword which will search for and return all channels matching that keyword. A good start is probably the top 100 channel list.
It takes a few seconds to populate the channel list which displays one channel per row. Each row includes the name, bitrate, quality, audience and other values. The most important are the bitrate, quality and audience as these are indicators on the quality of the picture and the bandwidth that is needed to watch the channel fluently.
A click on a channel with open an internal viewer that is connecting to the selected tv channel. This process can also take some time as the StreamTorrent begins the buffering process.
e player contains basic status information and controls including a buffer bar, changing to full screen or changing the volume.
Watching tv is probably the most popular use of StreamTorrent. It is possible to add new channels to the application and to start a live stream from the local computer system.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
WE WANT PEACE - featured in "The National Newspaper" :
"Gaza rap track is an internet hit" - The National Newspaper
A peace song written and recorded by a Dubai-based(Pakistani) rapper in response to the recent conflict in Gaza has become an internet hit.
The track, We Want Peace, was recorded by Nasir Akmal, who performs under the name of Jihad.
He collaborated with several US musicians to put together the song, which aims to draw attention to the situation in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a whole.
The National reported on Akmal’s project in January, when the artists were beginning the recording. It was completed last month.
Yesterday it was the fourth most popular song on the hip-hop website hiphopdx.com, where it has been played more than 70,000 times. In total, it has been played or downloaded more than 100,000 times.
“It’s a blessing to see so many people getting behind the song and its message,” said Akmal. “To witness this success really reinforces that pushing a positive message still has its place in our world today.”
The idea for the track came after Akmal saw images of dying Israeli and Palestinian children during the Israeli assault on Gaza in December and January. “I had to at least try and do something about it,” he said. “Now our song is out there.”
It has also been crowned Everything 3.1 song of the month - May 2009.
Make Sure U Check It Out & Spread The Word!
Click here to Get this Song!!! (:
Do you want to work out and not have to think about which songs you want to take with you on your music player? How about if you just want some music to “chillout” to? If either of these sounds like it could be your nirvana, then the SanDisk slotRadio Player may be the device for you.
The SanDisk slotRadio Player is a music player that comes with a slotRadio mix card that’s preloaded with 1,000 songs from artists on the Billboard charts. The slotRadio mix card is actually a specialized microSD card so you can use your own microSD card, too, once you’re done listening to the 1,000 tunes (more on that later).
The slotRadio Player itself is a very cool looking device. It’s made from die-cast aluminum and features a 1.5-inch OLED screen. It also offers a built-in FM radio which can display the song and artist as well as call letters from participating radio stations. As for navigating the player, you are presented with left and right navigation controls that can be triggered by pressing to the right or left of the screen. This allows you to go through different genres / playlists. Once you find a genre you like you can pause the song in that genre or skip the song entirely. You can also navigate left or right again to switch to a different genre. The slotRadio Player also has a clip built-in for clipping it to yourself for working out, walking around, or just enjoying your music and ships with both a USB cable and a plug that lets you charge the slotRadio Player in a standard AC outlet.
For my tests: the slotRadio player worked without fail. I took it out of the box, plugged in the headphones, plugged in the slotRadio Mix card, and was listening to the slotRadio mix card in seconds. I also flicked the slotRadio player to FM and that’s when I noticed it showing me the song and artist that was playing on the radio–nice touch! After I was done listening to FM, I switched the slotRadio Player to PLAY mode. The player started playing music immediately and also showed a variety of animations while the music was playing. For example, during “Rock” you are treated to an animation of a rock band and while in “Workout” you see silhouettes of people running. The display also cycles between which song is playing and which song is coming next in the playlist.
I also tried to drag my own music over. According to SanDisk, there’s about an album’s worth of space available on the slotRadio Mix card. I dragged over two Billy Joel MP3s and when I wanted to access them I navigated to the “MyChannel” playlist. From there I was able to cycle through each song.
I mentioned navigating the slotRadio Player earlier in this review. One thing I didn’t highlight was the player’s inability to allow the user to go back to a song previously played. In order to hear a song that you have already listened to in your playlist, you have to cycle all the way through again. This is done for business reasons. Basically it’s a “legal thing” and that’s how SanDisk can deliver 1,000 songs so cheap. I should also mention that the songs are DRM’d and there’s no way to access them aside from playing them on the SlotRadio Player.
That said, legal or not, it’s still troubling, though most people probably won’t even be bothered by it, especially since it’s touted as a feature and it’s supposed to deliver a “laid back experience” since you can just let the slotRadio Player play the playlist or skip a song if you don’t like it.
After playing with the slotRadio Player for a while I can now see its appeal. If I just want to take a player with me for a good workout, the slotRadio Player has a workout theme already made, and I didn’t have to hook up the player to my computer to get it. This goes for many other genres / playlists. Whatever mood you’re in, there’s already a playlist ready and waiting to be listened to. If you want additional music you can purchase another slotRadio Mix card or make your own on a microSD card–it’s just that easy.
The slotRadio Player is currently $99 and comes with 1,000 songs. At that price it’s a bit pricey but when you consider that it comes with 1,000 songs, and also allows you to use your own microSD card, it’s not too hard to stomach.
Read more about the slotRadio Player or purchase it for $99 at slotRadio.org
First of all i am sure the majority of you probably know about this, but i just found out about it today after fiddeling with stupid "free trial" bs software.
So this is how to do it:
Do this in iTunes
Right click on the song you are going to make into a ringtone, and select “Get Info.”
Go to the options tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringer to start/stop. The ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less.
Click OK when you’re done.
Then right click on your newly “clipped” song and select “Convert Selection to AAC.”
The song will be re-encoded using the start and stop times determined (If your menu item does not read “Convert Selection to AAC” and reads “Convert Slection to MP3″ (or some other format) please go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change the “Import Using” drop down menu to “AAC Encoder”).
After the song is done encoding, navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won’t delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).
Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and choose “Get info” Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop)
After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and you’re done! Remember to go back into iTunes and uncheck your custom start and stop times for the original version of your song.
If you aren't able to change the file extension you must disable "hide extensions for known file types"
In Vista from Windows Explorer, click Organize / Folder and search options/ View (tab) and uncheck the box.
In XP i think its tools / folder options.
So yeah that's it!
Sometime you may have this problem: You have an old computer which holds all your iTunes library including music, video, movie, tv shows, etc. And now you get a new computer, you want to transfer iTunes library from the old computer to the new one.
And here is a step by step guide will provide two solutions to fix the problem;
Option 1: If you have an iPod, you can sync your iTunes library to the iPod, and then copy them from iPod to the new computer;
Option 2: You can sync iTunes to external hard drive and import them back to the new computer;
Now, let's start the guide.
Part 1. User iPod to transfer iTunes library to another computer
Step1. Sync the iTunes library from computer to your iPod, I'm sure you can handle this step, so I'm not explain it here.
Because iTunes prevents copying music and video from iPod to computer, you need special software to bypass the iTunes limitation. I have tried many iPod transfers, and I strongly recommend this iPod to Computer transfer. It's really easy to use. I have tested it with all series of iPod including iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Shuffule, iPod photo, even iPhone, they all works pretty well. Moreover, you can use it as an iTunes alternative, it's really useful when your iTunes can't recognize your iPod but you want to upload music and video to iPod.
Step2. Download and install the iPod to PC transfer, here is the free download link, it's about 5.2 MB. For more information about it, you can visiting this iPod transfer review. Run the iPod to PC transfer, plug in your iPod to the new computer, it will detect your iPod and scan your iPod, then it will return a list of the files on your iPod. Choose the list and files you want to transfer, Click the Start Transfer button.
Step3. After you clicking the Start Transfer button, the following window will pop up; you can choose transferring to computer hard drive or iTunes directly. You can set the output fold at settings option before transferring.
Done, If you are Mac user, you may try this Mac iPod to computer transfer, the operation steps are similar to the windows version, so I’m not repeating here. For more iPod Transfer alternatives, you can refer to this side by side iPod to Computer Transfer review.
Part2. Use external hard drive to transfer iTunes library to another computer
Since iPods get their music by syncing with iTunes, you'll need to either 1) tell iTunes to store music files on your portable external hard drive instead of your regular drive, or 2) import music files from your external drive into iTunes.
Step1: Tell iTunes where to store music files
Open iTunes and select Edit -- Preferences. Then click the Advanced tab where you'll find the iTunes Music folder location.
Click the Change button and choose a folder on your external hard drive (you might want to create one first if you want files to be stored in a particular folder on the new drive).
If you want all of your music files to be moved over from your main drive to the external drive, then make sure the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option is checked.
Step2: Import music into iTunes from an external hard drive
If you already have music video on a portable hard drive, and just want to get them into iTunes so you can sync up and get those files on your ipod, then you can just drag and drop those files onto your new computer iTunes.
You can also use the File -- Add Folder to Library menu in iTunes, choose the music and video folder on your portable drive, and iTunes will add those to your library.
If you uncheck the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option, which is on this same tab shown above, then iTunes will leave the files on your external drive.
In the checked state (shown above), iTunes will copy all of the music files from the folder on your external drive over to your main drive. That might not be what you want (particularly if your external drive has more files on it than the size of your main drive).
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Oh snap, it's on like Donkey Kong, or at least like an intense level of Galaga. More specifically, Microsoft continues its advertising offensive against Apple with yet another commercial pointing out the cost of being hip, only this one targets iTunes and not MacBooks.
"I don't know about you, but I don't have thirty grand laying around for music," Moss says.
His solution? A subscription service like Zune Pass, of course! "One costs a lot, and one costs a little," Moss adds, referring to the iPod with $30,000 worth of music and Zune Pass's unlimited subscription plan for $14.99/month. For those of you doing the math at home, $30,000 buys almost 167 years of Zune Pass.
There are obvious flaws in Microsoft's latest pitch, but the goal here isn't necessarily to discredit Apple's iPod/iTunes combination as a viable music platform (too late for that) as much as it is to promote Zune Pass. The question is, will it work?
Hit the jump and sound off!
The same software developer who created the iTunes Playlist Exporter has created another useful third party tool for Apple’s iTunes media manager. The software is called iWatchSyncer and its main purpose is to monitor a folder on the local hard drive for new music to synchronize it with the iTunes software. The software has been designed to be foolproof. All the user needs to do is to pick a folder on the computer system that should be monitored for new music files.
The only other available option is to select a playlist to be created or extended with the music that is found in the monitored directory. This is an optional step though and not required for the music import to work properly. The software will check the folder for new music periodically and add it automatically to iTunes whenever new music is discovered in that folder on the drive. It looks like the interval is set to 1 minute as music that is moved to the folder gets quickly added to iTunes all the time.
The program has to be running in the background for this to work properly. It uses quite some computer memory (34 Megabytes on a Windows XP test system) which might make it to memory hungry for some computer systems. Could be worth a try for users who regularly add music to a specific folder and its subfolders on a computer system though. The music does get added to iTunes regularly as well.
The popular music manager iTunes offers a great and easy way of creating playlists. It takes a few clicks to create and fill a playlist in the iTunes software. There is however no official way of exporting playlists from iTunes to the computer system. This might be interesting for users who want to transfer playlists to other devices or systems that cannot be connected to the iTunes software, e.g. a mp3 player or cell phone from another manufacturer.
Enter iExporter. The software program for the Windows operating system comes with the means to easily export playlists to the computer system. The only restriction of the program is that it currently only works with native mp3 files.
The software has to be connected to iTunes upon start. This is done by clicking on the Connect to iTunes button. The software will be opened if it is not open already and the two tabs playlists and artists will be populated. The playlist tab contains all playlists that are currently available in iTunes. The artist tab on the other hand offers the possibility to export selected artists from iTunes. This did not work on the Windows XP SP3 test system though.
iExporter is a great software for iTunes users that want to export some or all of their playlists to their computer system.
Wanna Try iExporter? Click Here!
Do you like music? Are you interested in getting the latest music from your favorite artists? This could be your luck day because this online resource was conceived, designed and developed to give you that service.
Blyper will send you a message every time your favorite music artist releases new music. How? Simple: You actually can be notified by email. This solution gives you the chance to add your favorite artist as well as any new artists you want to learn more about by hand or just by importing your Last.fm favorites.
You will no longer have to worry about missing releases, and you can decide how often you are notified. In addition to this you will have the chance to find new artists from other users with similar music preferences.
If you want to share all your music with your friends and get the best music presents for their birthdays this site will play out that role splendidly.
Discovering new music today can be a bit difficult. You often read about new releases purely by chance and only from the mainstream artists. Blyper.com wants to solve that problem, and give music lovers access to the latest music on the spot.
Click Here to Check it Out!!!
HappY SurfinG!!! (:
Save precious CPU and memory by using mplayer to play mp3s, also keep your playlist file up to date with all your mp3 media files.
First and foremost we need to have mplayer installed, if your on a ubuntu-debian based system use the following command
to install mplayer, if not then you can download the appropriate packages and install them.
apt-get install mplayer
Lets make a home for our script file, and set the appropiate permissions!
mkdir ~/scripts; touch ~/scripts/playme.sh; chmod +x ~/scripts/playme.sh; gedit ~/scripts/playme.sh
Paste the following code into your new script file, if you keep your Music files in a different location then change the variable musdir to match your setup.
#/bin/bash
# VARS ##########################################
tmpdir='/tmp'
musdir='/home/osamad/Music'
filename='playlist.m3u'
# CODE ##########################################
find $musdir -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.ogg' 2>/dev/null >> $tmpdir/$filename
mplayer -playlist $tmpdir/$filename -shuffle -loop 0 -radio volume=80
Using find we build a list of all our mp3s, in this case we have multiple types of media files we want to play so we can specify that by adding the -o -name flags and add them in.
-playlist ;flag we set the playlist file we just created
-shuffle ; enables shuffle mode
-loop 0 ; enables loop 0=forever
-radio volume=80 ; set the default volume to 80% (use * or / to adjust when playing)
RunTime
Push ALT+F2 or launch from a terminal
./scripts/playme.sh
MORE
To find out more information, or to customize your mplayer settings..
man mplayer
Create a custom launcher and run your script from the gnome-panel
When it comes to helping listeners to be exposed to radio content, this is an effective site for you to take a look at.
This site was created with the main purpose to give you the chance to promote your shows (if you represent a radio station), or to discover new programs with new material (in case you are part of the audience)
Mixcloud is a ground-breaking website that will provide users with the ability to distribute and promote their mixes and radio shows. This is an effective way to give fans the chance to find out significant DJs and their works with no trouble at all.
No matter the music genre you like, this site gives you a wide assortment of that content in a very effective and fast way. This could be your chance to be updated with the most innovative music made by the future’s most important DJs.
In case you want to live this appealing experience you can do it without having to pa anything at all for it. There are many websites that provide similar services, but not many of them give you the chance to get this music on demand with a really high quality.
Check 'em out: http://www.mixcloud.com
Exactly what the title of the review says. That is, using this simple tool you will be able to take any video hosted on the popular service and have some fun with its audio by dubbing it as you see fit – using other YouTube videos.
The process is as easy as it gets, and once your masterpiece is ready you can share it by way of the provided button. Top creations eventually find their way into the site’s main page, where they can be seen and heard by everybody.
As the programmer himself readily admits, this solution has been put together mainly to accommodate tomfoolery and leisure uses, like dubbing a Power Puff Girls video with your favorite song from “Master of Puppets”. However, and as he readily points out, this service can also be put to serious uses such as translating a video file in a very immediate fashion. Any way or the other, the service is interesting and I will certainly be looking out for any update that might be forthcoming.
In their Own Words:
This site allows you to dub youtube videos with other youtube videos, so if you want to put a great song over another before sharing it you can do so via ytDub, or maybe you want to translate a video using the translations from a poor source video? (Honestly we expect you to use funny music to people being stupid, but we had to have a serious reason for ytDub!) We will be constantly adding new tweaks to the site, Surprises Await!
Visit website: http://www.ytdub.com
HappY SurFinG!!! (:
Download Kohram by Amanat Ali mp3(audio) tracks for free.
Album......................Kohram
Artist.....................Amanat Ali
Genre......................Pakistani Pop
Year.......................2009
Label......................FireRecords
Source.....................CD
Grabber................. ..EAC (Secure Mode)
Quality....................VBR/ 44.1 Khz/ Joint Stereo
No. Of Tracks..............12Size.......................84.4 MB
Rip Date...................17/04/09Ripped By..................PAC
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Title/Artist
- Any More - Amanat Ali
- Berungi - Amanat Ali
- Halka Halka - Amanat Ali
- Kohram - Amanat Ali
- Raha Jai Na - Amanat Ali
- Tanhai - Amanat Ali
- Teri Yaad - Amanat Ali
- Thumri - Amanat Ali
- Tujh Say Hee (Maan) - Amanat Ali
- Vari Vari - Amanat Ali
- Yeh Maira Dil - Amanat Ali
Don't Forget to Post Your Comments about the Kohram.
NOTE: Though I haven't had any problems using iPodLinux, you could potentially run into a snag that would require you to restore your iPod's firmware, which could mean you lose all of the music currently on your iPod. So do back up your iPod's music and files before proceeding.
First thing you need to do is download the iPodLinux Installer and extract the contents to a folder on your computer. Don't use a temporary folder, since you'll use the installer more than once, and this is where it will backup your current firmware and settings for easy uninstallation if you choose to get rid of iPodLinux.
The iPodLinux wiki currently claims that the installer doesn't work properly if you've upgraded your iPod firmware with the new iTunes 7, but I am running the latest firmware on my 4G iPod and didn't have a problem. Your mileage may vary, but if you do have a problem with your iTunes 7-upgraded iPod, you can always downgrade your firmware with the iPod Updater 2006-06-28 in order to install iPodLinux (since iTunes 7 has been somewhat of a mess, scads of people are downgrading anyway).
If you're ready to give it a try, run the installer. Again, the iPodLinux people make a point of telling you that loads of iPods aren't officially supported, but you'll find that for most purposes (at least for the games we'll be installing), pretty much any iPod should work fine.
Installation is straightforward. Plug in your iPod with disk mode enabled and run the installer, keeping the defaults. You may be told at some point (at least I was) that there's some dependency errors, but just click OK and barrel ahead.
When you get to the boot loader options, you have a choice: You can have your iPod automatically boot to Apple's default firmware (holding the Rewind/Back button during the boot process will load iPodLinux), boot iPodLinux by default (holding Rewind boots Apple firmware), or select the iPodLoader2, which gives you a boot manager interface where you can choose what to load each time you start up your iPod. In most cases, I'd suggest loading the iPod firmware by default, though I'm currently using iPodLoader2 (pictured above) without problems.
When your installation is complete, go to iTunes and eject your iPod. You may have to plug your iPod into the wall outlet to complete the installation, but the next time your iPod starts up you should be able to boot into iPodLinux.
HappY SurfinG!!! (: