Best places to buy lossless music
2012.10.17.11:42
If you’re looking to buy high-quality music downloads then the FLAC format is a great option. Here are the best five sites from indie to classical to jazz.
How to Find Free MP3s with Google
2012.08.08.14:33
Looking for free music files on the Web is quite simple if you know how to frame your search queries. The information in this article is intended for public domain, legally obtainable content.
There’s an easy way to find free MP3 files with Google; actually, there’s quite a few easy ways. Here’s one (this particular method via Tech-Recipes):
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3
Okay, so let’s break this down. You are attempting to find directories, so you don’t want a a Web page (hence the minus sign in front of both the htm and html extensions). You’re looking for the root directory, so that’s where the “index of” in the title (intitle) comes in. And that mp3 file designation? You can change that to any file you are wanting to look for: wma, pdf, etc.
Now, how about looking for specific artists? Easy:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “beethoven”
Make sure you put the artist’s name in quotes at the end of the search string. Now, there’s another way to do this that might be a little bit easier; you’re just changing the order of your search query around.
intitle:index.of + mp3 + “beethoven” -html -htm -txt
Basically, you’re doing the same thing that you did in the first search string. You can narrow it down even further if you want to:
“index of” + intitle:mp3 + beethoven
All you’re doing here is looking for directories with MP3 in the title and Beethoven.
Why Your MP3s Sound Bad: High-Resolution Audio Explained
2012.02.01.15:18
Several services have cropped up that sell uncompressed FLAC files directly, including HDTracks (https://www.hdtracks.com/), Magnatune (http://magnatune.com/), Zunior (http://www.zunior.com/), and The Classical Shop (http://www.theclassicalshop.net/), albeit at a premium in some cases. Some artists have also made uncompressed versions of the music available direct from their Web sites. The Beatles are selling a $300 boxed set (http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-USB/dp/B002VH7P4O) with a USB drive containing 24-bit FLAC files for all 14 albums. Trent Reznor released uncompressed versions of his four-part album “Ghost” on BitTorrent (which is an awesome distribution mechanism for huge piles of data).
ASIO4ALL
2008.08.20
Freeware Audio Driver
Universal ASIO driver for WDM audio {Use with foobar2000}
ASIO4ALL is a hardware independent low latency ASIO driver for WDM audio devices. It uses WDM Kernel-Streaming and sometimes even more sophisticated methods to achieve its objectives.
http://www.asio4all.com
David Sansome and John Maguire Clementine Version 0.7.1
Freeware Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: Jun 3, 2011
A music player that focuses solely on music? It may seem like a novel idea these days, when most music players have become full-fledged audio and video eco-systems. But that’s exactly what Clementine is: a simple music player that offers a full range of tools to allow you to get the most out of your music collection.
http://www.clementine-player.org
dupeGuru Music Edition
Release Date: 2012.02.02
Donationware Audio
Despite its name, dupeGuru Music Edition is not just for comparing music files. It adds the music functionality on top of a robust duplicate finding application. Using a smart filename comparison algorithm, dupeGuru Music Edition finds duplicates even when the files have different names. dupeGuru runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It also follows a “fairware” pricing model: You can see how many hours the developers put into the application and how many have been paid for by donations and then make a donation yourself.
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me
FLAC
2008.08.20
Freeware {Re-record your audio}
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http://flac.sourceforge.net
Foobar2000 Version 1.1.10
2012.04.02
Freeware Audio Player Installation
An advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Supports 5.1 surround sound on headphones. It reads music files inside archives. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components. Gapless playback. Full unicode support. Easily customizable user interface layout. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component. Customizable keyboard shortcuts. Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.You also need to download the foobar2000 ASIO DLL (click on the Optional Components link on the foobar2000 site); the DLL file should go into foobar2000’s Components folder on your hard drive.
http://www.foobar2000.org
Pianosoft Free MP3 Converter Version 3.4
Freeware MP3 & Audio Conversion (Windows)
Release Date: 2012.01.30
Free MP3 Converter is simple, straight, but yet powerful with options, flexible MP3 encoder. It can be used to reduce file size of some MP3 song so it could be easier sent as E-mail attachment, or to encode some captured audio from different audio sources : TV card, line-in or microphone saved in smaller,more convenient MP3 format. You can use Free MP3 Converter together with Winamp software to write some of your existing MP3-s into wave format (by using Winamp Disk Writer plug in). After you create. wav file you can edit it with wave editing software (Sound Forge, Cool Edit) and/or use Free MP3 Converter to encode. wav file into MP3 according to audio quality preferences or mp3 file size need. Free MP3 Converter is fully featured MP3 encoder. Very easy to use, with bunch of options. Supports encoding of. raw and. wav files, variable bit rate encoding, adjustable bit rates (30-320 KHz),CPU priority adjust, IO frequency adjust, sampling rates, different encoding modes (Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo) and many other options.
http://www.pianosoft-europe.com
Ellora Assets Corporation Freemake Music Box Version 0.9.2
Free Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2012.02.23
At first glance you might think that Freemake Music Box is a librarian/player along the lines of iTunes and Windows Media Player. You’d be wrong. Music Box (free) could care less about what you have on your hard drive. Instead it searches YouTube and presents you with it music and music videos that it finds based on the words, name, title, or phrase you type in the search box.
http://www.freemake.com
Apple iTunes Version 10.5.3
Free Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2012.01.02
Apple’s iTunes 9 has a number of new features, such as iTunes LP (which tries to bring full-blown album art, liner notes, and so on to the digital world), Home Sharing (which allows you to sync your music across computers in your household), and the redesigned iTunes Store. Though these new features make iTunes a stronger media-playback app, it’s hardly a major revamp.
http://www.apple.com
Ventis Media MediaMonkey Version 4.0.2
2011.12.25
Freeware Audio Manager
Manage 100,000+ music and video files without bogging down. Record CDs and download music, movies, and podcasts. Automatically lookup and intuitively tag Album Art and other metadata. Manage any audio / video genres: Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Home movies, tv, etc. Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume. Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party. Sync most iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly. Share via DLNA and convert MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WMA, MP4, AVI, and WMV to support most devices. Movie / Music Manager (for Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, Movies, TV, etc.). Audio/Video Player & (MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, AVI, MP4, WMV etc.). Auto-DJ & secure jukebox mode for parties. Podcatcher & media downloader. CD Ripper & Audio/Video Converter: Encode MP3, OGG, FLAC, AVI, etc. File Monitor (automatically updates library). Auto Renamer / File Organizer. Auto Tag Editor with Album Art Lookup. Find Duplicate Tracks and Missing Tags. Playlist Manager (auto music mixes). Sync and backup iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android devices and others. Share media with TVs, DVD Players and other UPnP / DLNA devices. Integrated CD/DVD/BD Burner (Audio & Data). Most addons can be installed by simply downloading and running them.
http://www.mediamonkey.com
Steven Mayall MusicBee Version 1.2.4176
Freeware Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2011.06.21
Your music collection may be gigantic, but your music player doesn’t have to be. That’s the idea behind MusicBee, a free music player for Windows PCs that’s designed to deliver a simple but powerful way to manage your music collection.
http://getmusicbee.com
Google Music Manager
Freeware Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2012.02.17
The Music Manager is a desktop application that allows you to add your music to the cloud. Once you’ve added songs to Google Music, you can listen to your music anywhere that you have internet access.
https://music.google.com
RealNetworks RealPlayer Version 14
Freeware Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2011.01.24
Venerable multimedia playback software RealPlayer is back. In the latest version, Real Networks has enhanced the player’s mobile capabilities, taking aim at Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia phones that lack the native media syncing solution that Apple’s iPhone and iPod enjoy with iTunes.
http://www.real.com
Spotify Ltd Spotify Version 0.8.2.6210
Freeware Audio Player (Windows)
Release Date: 2012.03.16
Pick a song; any song. Type its name in a search box, click a button, and it starts playing. Okay, we could do this five years ago. But now, click the album name, and listen to the whole album, top to bottom, in sequence. It lacks Pandora’s ability to “thumbs-down” a song to make the system learn about what you like. Another key difference between Spotify and the other services is that to use Spotify, you have to download a client.
http://www.spotify.com/us