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Muine - A simple playlist based Audio player

Written on November 27th, 2010 at 19:48 pm by shredder12

As long as we are talking about audio players, I always suggest Amarok, but most people are not looking for an all in on solution. They just want to play a few songs or play list sometimes and hence require only a simple and light audio player which can do all of it. Muine is one such music player for Gnome.

MOC, a powerful Console based Music Player

Written on August 6th, 2010 at 16:34 pm by shredder12

When you are working on low spec machines or really old computers, you always try to avoid using heavy applications. But sometimes even the most necessary ones consume a lot of resources. A few months ago, I was stuck with a really old desktop and had to go for some of the lowest resource consuming applications. MOC, Music on console, was my Music player alternative.

Osd-lyrics - Best lyrics Finder tool Ever

Written on June 1st, 2010 at 10:13 am by shredder12

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to the best lyrics finder tool I have ever used, osd-lyrics. Just imagine, while you are listening songs and facebooking or whatever you usually do, an application is fetching and displaying lyrics "in sync" with the song being played. "Well, many player plugins do that, nothing new ". Alright then, "well" first of all these plugins don't display the lyrics in sync and secondly this software supports more than 10 different music players, yup! its player independent.

Byzanz-record, Record your Desktop Session to a GIF image

Written on February 22nd, 2010 at 21:42 pm by shredder12

Byzanz is a pretty cool command line screencast application which lets you record the Desktop session as a GIF image, Theora video and others. Earlier releases only had the option to save the session as a GIF image but recent releases also allow recording it as a video. Audio recording is supported too.

How to download mms streaming videos in Ubuntu

Written on January 9th, 2010 at 18:11 pm by shredder12

Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me looking for a way to download a mms stream. Forget about the direct download I wasn't even able to stream it on the available players at the moment. But later after some searching I found out that there is an application for Ubuntu called mimms which can directly download the mms stream for you.

The exaile Mini mode

Written on October 18th, 2010 at 09:30 am by shredder12

Because of its being light on resources, I prefer to use Exaile over amarok. The tray icon(top-right corner) works great in making it easily accessible on all workspaces with no need to mark the window "always on visible workspace". Yet, I always wished for a smaller version of the player, as powerful as exaile, but smaller. This is what Exaile's mini-mode aims to do. It bundles the whole full screen music player into a 1-2cm display.

A GStreamer based Video Transcoder - Transmageddon

Written on July 24th, 2010 at 23:18 pm by shredder12

So, after trying out winff, the graphical frontend for ffmpeg, I kept looking for more such tools and found  the "Transmageddon Transcoder". Perhaps the name was inspired from Armageddon . Anyway, unlike winff which uses FFmpeg at the backend, this tool is based upon GStreamer framework and is only a video transcoder.

Arista, a Multimedia transcoder for GNOME Desktop

Written on February 25th, 2010 at 01:29 am by shredder12

Today a friend of mine asked me to suggest him some good video converters in Linux. As of now, I am only aware of the King of all, ffmpeg, but when I searched in the repos for some more video convertors I came across Arista Transcoder, a pretty cool application which makes encoding media content for various popular devices really easy for you.

Manage your podcasts using gPodder

Written on January 11th, 2010 at 00:05 am by shredder12

So, the application I have been using a lot recently is gPodder. In simple words, its a podcast aggregator or a podcast manager or even simpler it may be considered as a rss reader which deals with audio and video feeds rather than textual content. In addition to being simple and easy to use, its very flexible. Keep reading and I am sure many of you will replace your podcast client with gPodder .

Gnome2 GlobalMenu

Written on December 22nd, 2009 at 22:19 pm by shredder12

A few weeks ago I came across an idea posted on brainstrom about Mac-style menu bar. Didn't pay much attention to it until yesterday I read a tweet by Mike Basinger, the Ubuntuforums' admin, about his being happy with gnome2 globalmenu. So, I checked it out and its pretty cool, made me think why I didn't write about it earlier.

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