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Online music is one of the biggest sources of entertainment these days. Most of the music enthusiasts prefer streaming music rather than moving around with CDs and MP3s. They not only wish to enjoy online music albums and videos but also tend to download their favourite track for free. The web is full of such music streaming software but no one is as good as the new music streamer and downloader named Muziic.

Muziic is a freeware developed by a 15 year old guy (with the help of his dad). You can feel this in the first glance as the player does not look professional but is much more functional than other complex players on the Internet. You can download Muziic for free, just like you download iTunes or any other virtual player from the web. Of course, unlike iTunes Muziic will not sync your music with your Apple iPod nano portable media player. At any rate, once downloaded, installed and initiated, it will offer you on demand access to millions of streaming songs in no time. This is in contrast to other music players as they most often fail to search the particular track you are interested in. The Muziic does not have any problem in searching for any album or title. You can even search and listen to tracks that any music label has uploaded on YouTube and those one too that have been illegally uploaded by the users.

Just type the name of the song or artist and the Muziic will search for it and return the most relevant results. The player has got easy to use controls and features all the commonly used functions such as volume control, playback control, playlist manager and skins.

Do you like to make music of your own? If yes then the Magix Music Maker 15 is the best option for you. It’s a professional music making software programme that can serve anybody. From pro music editors to those who don’t have any degree in acoustic science can use this awesome software to get the nerves of the different beats. The Magix Music Maker 15 offers performance, ease of use and great functionality, all in one package.

Despite the fact that this software lacks some advanced music editing options such as tempo changes and automated mixer settings it can be used to create impressive CD quality music. It not only allows creating a new track but can also be used to cut the blocks from existing tracks and club them together to make a grand non-stop remix album. The programme has got a new sound library of 1269 music samples and 516 short MIDI phrases. With this amount of MIDI phrases it is practically as effective as a real MIDI controller like the M-AUDIO Keystation Pro 88. You can also play the MIDI phrases with the Vita software synthesizer programme bundled with the Music Maker 15.

Apart from this you will also get five more synthesizers including BeatBox 2 that offers a great collection of drum samples. The Music Maker 15 has got an easy to use interface. In fact that’s the best feature of this software because most of the other music making programs are well equipped but feature a confusing UI. The Music Maker 15 graduates the user from a basic level to the advanced one. Once you are familiar with all the functions you can use them at various levels to create professional music.

Xilisoft iPhone Video Converter is the professional file conversion software developed specifically for iPhone users. It can be used to create new videos as well as convert the existing ones into a format that the iPhone supports. The best feature of this application is that during conversion process it does not affect the video quality too much, like the other iPhone apps or software. You will get crystal clear videos that look great on the iPhone’s display.

The Xilisoft iPhone Video Converter also supports audio and image conversion. The images can be sequenced together to create a customised video with background sound (just like the Windows Movie Maker do). The user interface is great and the software is real easy to install and use on your Apple iPhone 3G. You will get a windows explorer like Windows where you can drag n drop the files. There are loads of tools and settings that can be used to define the properties of the output file and add special effects to videos.

Xilisoft iPhone Video Converter main attractions

• Supports variety of input file formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, FLV, MKV, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, M4V, VOB, ASF, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, H.261, H.264, DV, DIF, MJPG, MJPEG, DVR-MS, NUT, QT, YUV, DAT, MPV, NSV, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, CDA, OGG, FLAC, APE, CUE, M4A, RA, RAM, AC3, MP2, AIFF, AU, MPA, SUN AU Format, BMP, GIF, JPEG and PNG.

• Works with Windows XP Professional (SP2) and Windows Vista.

• Output file formats include MPEG, MP4, H.264/MPEG-4, MOV, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, WAV, M4A, AIFF and BMP.

• Supports batch file processing.

The OSMPX music manager is the ultimate PC application for organising audio files. Just like Apple iTunes, this one also offer lots of professional tools to manage different file formats including MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3), MPEG-4 AAC (MP4/M4A), Musepack (MPC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), Monkey’s Audio (APE), FLAC, WavPack (WV), PCM WAV (WAV, PCM), m3u playlists and cue sheets. The OSMPX stands for OrlSoft Music Manager and supports different operations such as audio file encoding, decoding and re-encoding.

The UI of OSMPX is very intuitive and easy to use. Its window looks like a normal window explorer and supports drag n drop function. You can view the file list in different formats. For instance you can only have the file names or full details. Operating OSMPX is easy as there is a full fledged tool bar provided on the top. Besides, it also sports fully functional context menus that give instant access to all the functions related to the selected file.

OSMPX main attractions

• Great Microsoft Windows XP style looks and loads of themes for customisation
• Eight audio compression formats supported
• Local, removable and network devices support
• Great command line interface
• Express tag editor
• Batch processing supported
• Lots of usable functions such as filters, cue, compression and updates

Songbird is a yet to be released desktop media player, which has this unique ability of integrating many media and music services. Although iTunes is also an amazing media player which has been the market leader or quite some time now, with Songbird on the market, iTunes will surely be facing some tough competition. This Songbird media player’s programme has been based on the Firefox browser and bears many similarities to the Winamp player, with its innumerable skins and add-ons.

Songbird can be best described as a customisable open source music player. The efforts are being made to develop this media player as a cross platform, non-proprietary extensible tool that has the ability to enable all the new ways to discover, playback as well as manage the music. Songbird media player definitely showcases thoughtful, smart and excessive design. With the help of this software you can now sit back and make maximum of its music browsing functionality. It is quite smart in a way that it checks what music you have listening to and automatically adds that as a link.

Songbird is highly intuitive media player with amazing user interface. The main objectives of this media player are reduced PC RAM usage, faster search, reduced start up times, GStreamer Media Cores on all platforms and last but not the least fast media importing. All the effort is being put to make it better or at power with iTunes.

iAudioize is a special piece of software for the Mac from Limerick, which is used for converting all word, email, page documents and PDFs to an audio file in MP3 format. This then gives users the convenience to listen to the entire document on their MP3 player. The best part about these MP3 files is that they are approximately three to four times smaller than the size of the actual song. The iAudioize software costs around £25.

iAudioize works on the concept, where it features natural voices and compresses al the audio files to take up approximately four times less space than would be taken by any normal MP3 file. This software is capable of automatically downloading the files first to your Apple iPod and then storing your documents and emails like music in your iTunes and finally building portable email or document.

This software is highly intuitive and has an extremely simple user interface. iAudioize works with playlists and also supports drag and drop feature. This software is also capable of automating the population iAudioized playlists. This software also features search functionality and much more. This is one software programme makes it very easy for all the people or professionals who keep travelling. The basic system requirements for this software are Mac operating system with versions 10.4 and later, 512MB RAM, 150MB hard disk and the speed should be 900MHz or above.

Microsoft has successfully brought in new software for their MP3 players. One interesting route taken by Microsoft is that they have named both their MP3 player as well as the software by the name Zune; this could actually cause identity crises. Zune can also be called a belated answer to both the iPod and iTunes. This Zune software has been designed to enable the user to view as well as manage songs, pictures and songs. It also gives you the convenience of ripping and burning the CDs, editing the information about albums and tracks and creating the playlists.

The Zune software is quite intuitive and supports an amazing user interface therefore making it quite easy to understand and use. It also features smooth audio and video playback. This software is capable of automatically importing your existing files including the audio and the video files from windows media player as well as unprotected (in fine print) files from iTunes. Since all the content of iTunes is protected, anything that has been brought through iTunes cannot be played in Zune. But Zune surely proves to be an alternative for all the Windows users who may feel that Apple gives them a second grade treatment.

Only the top right section instead of the entire top portion of the Zune software has been totally dedicated for burning files, creating playlists, viewing the current playing list and syncing media. This is a major improvement from other softwares as it saves a lot of clutter. Zune software is indeed a great way to keep all your music, pictures and videos organized.

If you are looking for a professional DJ mixer then Atomix MP3 is the right choice. It’s the ancestor of the famous DJ mixing software known as VirtualDJ. Although further development on Atomix has been stopped, it’s still one of the most preferred DJ software programmes because of its core design and architecture.

Atomix was designed to run on PCs that have low end configuration. It puts minimum load on the system’s RAM and processor. Thus, you can use it on any machine, even minimalist netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 701. However, feature wise the Atomix is not as versatile as VirtualDJ but if you can compromise on features for a stable performance, Atomix is good. Atomix offers two decks in which you can load tracks and play them simultaneously. Besides this there are play, pause, stop, cue buttons, pitch control, mixer, 3 band equalizers, kills, volume control, gain and crossfader.

To make the mixing easy, Atomix processes the BMP automatically. You will also get lots of special functions which can be used to add extra effects to the songs. Such functions include audio effects, smart loops, mater tempo, recording and visual effects. Atomix supports two sound cards and multi-output sound cards. So you can easily split the stereo if you want. Atomix is backed by a vast library of special effects files which can be downloaded from the Internet.

Propaganda is an easy to use commercial podcast solution to come from Mix Meister Technology. You can easily and conveniently create commercial and professional podcasting results. This software gives the user the convenience of recording, storing and importing all types of recordings, such as music or voice or sound effects. Once you have completed the process of recording, you can label and organise the entire collection of your audio clips.

In order to preview the actual output, this podcasting software allows you to just drag all your audio clips into a show sequence and then make any necessary changes. For example you can then add or delete some or all of the content, or editing any clip so as to make it shorter, longer, quieter, or louder. In spite of the vast array of features offered by the software, it has a very simple and clear cut user interface, where editing, quick right click edits and drag and drop arrangements can all be easily executed.

Propaganda is capable of pulling audio from any source and exporting the audio file either to any output file destination or directly to the Apple iPod 80 GB or any other audio portable device. This podcasting software can be of a good help in creating RSS feeds, iTune and ID3 tags. Propaganda also supports some basic features like mixing, cropping and track splitting, which make the editing process quite simple and easy. Propaganda is one of the best solutions for launching your music or message to the podcasting arena.

Mixcraft 4 is an inexpensive and outstanding combination of MIDI recording and an editing studio, together with multi-track audio from Acoustica, which allows you to practically effortlessly record, mix, compose and create your own music. This software can be used extensively for both music loop remixing and for multi track recording. The Mixcraft 4 features MIDI and virtual instruments sequencing, both of which allow you to perform various functions such as editing, recording, composing and mixing music all in one application.

Now you can simultaneously play multiple tracks of audio, as well as MIDI virtual instruments, on account of the software’s multi track audio editing function. In essence, with the MIDI virtual instruments, it is the equivalent of owning your own electric drum like the Roland SPD-20, but without actually having to possess any physical hardware. You also have the option of adding an array of effects such as delay, reverb, flanger, guitar amp simulator and many more to your recording or mixing audio. Its music loop mixing function lets you either create your own new loop, or extract a loop from an already existing song. Mixcraft 4 also supports Acid and Apple Garage Band loops. All these features have been neatly wrapped up in the software and together increase the versatility of the mixing software.

This product features an excellent user interface and is a powerful combination of a mixing engine, which can support around eight CPUs, effects, virtual instruments and unlimited tracks with multi track recording. Mixcraft 4 is surely a package deal which provides the user with professional studio recording technology, phenomenal sound quality, a highly customisable user interface and, last but not least, low price.