Media

http:/ / louhi.kempele.fi/ ~skyostil/ projects/ albumart/
Here's a program that will semi-automatically download album cover images for your music collection. All you have to do is point it at the root of your music directory and for each directory, the program will download a set of corresponding (well, best guess) album covers from the Internet, from which you can choose one that suits your fancy. If you use WinAmp, you can use this with the <A HREF="http://classic.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=16898" TARGET=_blank>ShowCover plug-in</A>.

http:/ / goldwave.com/
GoldWave is a comprehensive digital audio editor. It contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do. GoldWave opens, plays, creates, and edits mp3 files. It converts to and from many sound formats including wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, and binary and text data. Special effects such as doppler, distortion, echo, flange, time warp, and pitch alter and enhance your audio files to create new and unique sounds.

http:/ / www.apple.com/ itunes/
The Best Digital Jukebox - All your music in one place in AAC, MP3 or Apple Lossless. Generate lists of your favorites. Dig deep into your library with Party Shuffle. Let the whole family listen to your collection in any room on Mac or Windows. Burn any playlist. Create CD inserts with mosaics of cover art and track lists. Make backups.

http:/ / www.yvg.com/ itunesartimporter.shtml
Automatically import album art into iTunes from Amazon.com (Windows only)

http:/ / mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.

http:/ / www.dbpoweramp.com/ codec-central-mp3pro.htm
It's the new MP3 Codec. A 64kbps stream has the same sound as a 128kbps stream so the bandwidth is cut in half and sounds great!

http:/ / www.realnetworks.com/ products/ rpe/ index.html
RealPlayer Enterprise is a configurable version of RealPlayer, designed and optimized for enterprise deployments. RealPlayer Enterprise gives you the best of RealPlayer you know and use at home, but without advertising, without requiring registration, and without consumer features that don't belong in the workplace.

http:/ / www.slimdevices.com/ pi_features.html
SlimServer can stream your music collection over the Internet to a software player such as Winamp or iTunes. Now you can easily listen at work to your music collection stored at home without moving files.

http:/ / www.winamp.com/
Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT. Winamp supports MP3, MP2, CD, MOD, WAV, ACC, VP6 and other audio formats, custom interfaces called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp is shareware, so download Winamp, try it and then kindly register your copy.

http:/ / www.microsoft.com/ windows/ windowsmedia/ 9series/ encoder/ default.aspx
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a powerful tool for content producers who want to take advantage of the many innovations in Windows Media 9 Series including high-quality multichannel sound, high-definition video quality, new support for mixed-mode voice and music content, and more.

http:/ / www.morguefile.com/
MorgueFile is a place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. Click on Image archive to view and download photos, registration is not required.

http:/ / www.acdsystems.com/ English/ Products/ ACDSee/ index.htm
ACDSee is a fast, full-featured image viewer, browser, database, file management and image manipulation tool, all in one! ACDSee supports over 40 popular image file formats, as well as ZIP and LZH archives, digital cameras, scanners, photo sharing services, and more! Experience the excellent power of ACDSee by adding plugin modules. Show your images using the on-screen slide show capabilities. Simple to install and easy to use!

http:/ / www.autostitch.net/
AutoStitch is capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever. Just select a set of photos, and AutoStitch does the rest: digital photos in, panoramas out. Try the free demo (for Windows)

http:/ / www.asy.com/ scrcf.htm
CrossFont for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP can convert TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms.

http:/ / www.friedemann-schmidt.com/ software/ exifer/
Exifer is a nearly free software with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras. Because many image processing software destroys this metadata when saving such files, the idea was to create a backup of the metadata before editing it in any software, and then, after that to restore it back into the processed file. With Exifer you can do this very easily.

http:/ / www.neowise.com/ webpics/
Express WebPictures will help you to download thousands of pictures, audio and video files quickly and easily. Just drag and drop the URL to the Drop Basket and this award-winning tool will scan entire website and download every found file within a few minutes.

http:/ / www.atalasoft.com/ EyeBatch/
EyeBatch is a powerful and intuitive batch image processor. This tool will automate your image processing by applying image commands to a set of multiple images. A dynamic preview image will show file size, dimensions, and bit depth of both the source and destination image, including effects due to changing color depth or lossy JPEG compression. EyeBatch offers a suite of over 50 imaging functions that can be used to achieve complex effects and image enhancements.

http:/ / www.flickr.com/
Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them.

http:/ / homepage.mac.com/ gapodaca/ digital/ digital.html
Click on a thumbnail of Greg's work and roll over the photo to watch wrinkles, cellulite, blemishes and scuff marks appear in the original. You'll never look at photos in magazines the same way again.

http:/ / www.html2jpg.com/
Did you ever need some screenshots of a website? Did you discover that the 'Alt-PrintScreen' key combination only captured the visible part of the window and that you wasted quite some time glueing all the pieces together to obtain your final image? HTML2JPG creates a BMP, JPG or PNG image with the whole 'vertical' content of the webpage. HTML2JPG can operate in batch-mode and generate hundreds of images without your intervention.

http:/ / www.mydeskcity.com/
Lots of gorgeous wallpaper for your desktop. (Note: Non-english website.)

http:/ / www.neatimage.com/
Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images. Neat Image not only reduces the high ISO noise associated with image sensors in digital cameras and scanners, it can also reduce the film grain visible in scanned slides and negatives, JPEG artifacts of overcompressed images, and color banding, and at the same time makes images sharper. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light, wedding, sport, and action photography.

http:/ / www.eecs.wsu.edu/ paint.net/
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.

http:/ / www.picasa.com/
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you know. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

http:/ / homokaasu.org/ rasterbator/
The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

http:/ / www.slowview.at/
ACDSee is a fast, full-featured image viewer, browser, database, file management and image manipulation tool, all in one! ACDSee supports over 40 popular image file formats, as well as ZIP and LZH archives, digital cameras, scanners, photo sharing services, and more! Experience the excellent power of ACDSee by adding plugin modules. Show your images using the on-screen slide show capabilities. Simple to install and easy to use!

http:/ / www.bhelpuri.net/ Snippy/ default.htm
Click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy — that's it, you're done! The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application. If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard; this makes it very convenient to select something interesting on a Web site and send it out in an email message.

http:/ / www.nuonsoft.com/ wallpapercycler/
Wallpaper Cycler is an easy to use program to get rid of that boring static wallpaper on your desktop. Use this program to rotate or change the wallpaper with a specified delay or at a specific time. Supports over 20 different image formats. Wallpaper Cycler includes an advanced random choice algorithm. This algorithm makes sure that if certain wallpapers get picked one time, they will not be picked again until ALL other wallpapers have been picked.

http:/ / www.xnview.com/
Software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use! Support of more than 400 graphics formats! (NOTE: I use this with Total Commander... very fast and lightweight image viewer.)

http:/ / www.geocities.com/ myasftools/
AsfTools is a free windows 98/ME/2000/XP program to process ASF,WMV and WMA files. Features include: Join & Split, Many different Repairing Tools, Most operations are done without re-compressing so the quality will not degrade, Converting ASF/WMV format to AVI, Extracting audio stream and saving it as WAV, Converting WMV1/WMV2 format to MP43, Making the stream files "Seekable", Creating ASX file

http:/ / www.autogk.net/
THE tool for DivX / XviD backup utility. This tool is designed mainly for people who know very little (or nothing) about video conversion and want to create videos for their standalones or PC in a few clicks of a mouse. AutoGK comes with almost all that you'll need to create excellent quality backups of your DVDs. (One program it doesn't come with is DVD Decrypter.)

http:/ / avicodec.duby.info/
Select the troublesome video file and you'll instantly be presented with all pertinent information about the codec(s). If you lack the codec, just click on the Web button next to the file type, video codec type, or audio codec type, and AVIcodec will pull up a page from which you can locate and download the necessary files. As an added bonus, AVIcodec will give you a list of all currently installed codecs on your system.

http:/ / www.radgametools.com/ bnkmain.htm
Bink/RAD Viedo Tools is a hybrid block-transform and wavelet codec that can encode your video using 16 different compression techniques (wavelet, DCT, motion compensation, a variety of vector quantizers, Smacker-style, etc). With all of these techniques in one codec, Bink can handle any type of video. Use it to freely convert AVI to MOV and MOV to AVI. FAST!

http:/ / www.cdcovers.cc/
Audio and PC CD, DVD and Game covers for printing. Perfect replacements for when your printed collector's case breaks or the cover is lost and/or damaged.

http:/ / www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD Decrypter is a highly versatile VOB-ripping utility. The software takes advantage of both the DeCSS Plus and VobDec algorithms for looking up and decrypting the CSS encryption. DVD Decrypter is also multi-angle aware, and capable of removing the Macrovision scrambling key, as well as the region code during the ripping process.

http:/ / www.dvdshrink.org/
DVD Shrink is a great freeware tool for fitting your DVD-video onto a single DVD-R disc. It permits you to select compression levels up to 50 percent for each video track, preview files, and manage media assets. DVD Shrink provides two ways of shrinking your DVD disk. These are re-authoring and re-encoding. You can use one, or the other, or for maximum "shrinkage", both combined. (The only downside to this application is that it requires another authoring program to make burn of the backup.)

http:/ / www.dvdsanta.com/
Converts and Burns All Video Formats, such as DivX / XVid movies, AVI format videos, Mpeg movies, VCD/SVCD movies, WMV videos, Real videos, Quicktime videos DIRECTLY into DVDs so that you can watch them on your TV with your family and friends.

http:/ / www.avanquestusa.com/ products/ powerdvd/ index.htm
Enhanced Screen Capture, MP3, CD, VCD, DivX files, SVCD Multi-channel Playback, DTS Digital Surround & SRS TruSurround XT, customizable Region Code Settings and more!

http:/ / www.flaskmpeg.net/
FlasKMPEG (GPL) converts digital video in the MPEG format to other formats. FlasKMPEG is free and very easy to use and at the same time powerful and fun! (Full MPEG1/MPEG2 software video decoding, VCD/SVCD/DVD video transcoding, A52/MPEG audio decoding)

http:/ / www.headbands.com/ gspot/
Finds the codecs you need to play digital video and sound. If it's unable to render the file, it tells you in plain English why.

http:/ / www.hauppauge.com/ pages/ products/ data_mediamvp.html
The coolest video product on the Planet! Listen to and watch digital music, pictures and videos on your TV set, from your PC over your home Ethernet LAN! I've personally found the quality and control to be better than running SVideo cables, converting to NTSC and using wireless TV repeaters. You can make it look like BeyondTV by using the skin at <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mvpbtv/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mvpbtv</A>

http:/ / www.intervocative.com/ dvdpro/ Info.aspx
If you are an avid collector of DVDs or just bought your first one, this program is a must. In most cases, all you will need to do is enter the UPC code, usually found on the back of the DVD, and DVD Profiler will download the rest from the constantly growing database on the web. Now you can cross-reference actors, create complex filters, keep track of who borrowed what, and print reports (including cover images).

http:/ / www.mediaware.com.au/ ProductInfo/ index.html
M2-edit PRO 5.0 brings new breakthroughs in technology to deliver the most sophisticated MPEG-2 editor available to your desktop. Based on our advanced MPEG-2 library which supports frame accurate, bit-rate controlled editing of MPEG-2 Program and Transport streams, as well as MPEG-1 System and Video-only streams. With web publish, video searching and logging, drag and drop editing, frame accurate and fast mode editing, you can now edit MPEG video more quickly, easily and more cost effectively than ever before.

http:/ / mediaportal.sourceforge.net/
This program opens the portal to a new digital media Experience. Listen, record and organize music, movies, pictures and even Pause TV! Use internet sources to enrich your media with albumart or songnames. Experience media as never been seen or heard before. (The price? FREE)

http:/ / www.myflixer.com/
Keep track of your NetFlix movie Queue right from your computer's desktop. Easily see all the movies in your Queue, what's been shipped and your recent returns. myFlixer sits right in your computer's desktop taskbar and updates everytime a change occurs to your NetFlix account. Display movie cover art and the description of every movie in your Queue.

http:/ / www.snapstream.com/ Products/ Products_PVS3.asp
Beyond TV is software that makes it easy for you to record television shows to your computer's hard disk. You can then watch recorded TV shows on your PC, stream them to other devices on a wired or wireless home network or stream them over the Internet to remote computers. For users in the United States, this software includes a fully integrated electronic programming guide.

http:/ / www.sorenson.com/ solutions/ prod/ comp_win.php
Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite is the first full-featured compression application to incorporate High Definition (HD) encoding for a variety of video formats including - MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, RealMedia, and Windows Media 9. The Suite also compresses the highest-quality video for Macromedia Flash files.

http:/ / www.videolan.org/ vlc/
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multiplatform, multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http:/ / www.winavi.com/
WinAVI Video Converter is a ALL-IN-ONE solution for video file converting and burning. It supports conversion from anything (even Flash & Quicktime) DVD/VCD/SVCD/MPEG/AVI/WMV/RM and supports DirectAC3 technology.

http:/ / www.microsoft.com/ windows/ windowsmedia/ 9series/ encoder/ default.aspx
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a powerful tool for content producers who want to take advantage of the many innovations in Windows Media 9 Series including high-quality multichannel sound, high-definition video quality, new support for mixed-mode voice and music content, and more.

http:/ / www.womble.com/ vcr-text.htm
The Womble MPEG-VCR is a software video editor that performs all editing on MPEG data with frame accuracy. It supports all MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 bit streams, including MPEG-2 Transport streams for HDTV.