Author Topic: Software beyond MusicBee  (Read 78857 times)

dataGuy

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Lot of great tips so far. Here's a few I use that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

PDF Reader: PDF X-Change
Registry Cleaner: Glary Utilities
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials also sometimes use - F-Secure Online Scanner
Firewall: Comodo (has it's own sandboxing feature)
Privacy browser extension: Ghostery (Use it in Opera and Chrome)

Edit - not really sure about that SRWare Iron app. Downloaded it and made the mistake of clicking on the update media player link [seems an obvious bad move, in hindsight, on my part but at the time I thought it was a browser extension]. Found myself trying to get out of installing all kinds of mods to the browser.  Also didn't find it helpful that the browser's blog is in German. The uninstall seems to have worked but it left the shortcuts on my desktop; so buyer beware & YMMV....
Last Edit: July 03, 2013, 07:24:27 PM by dataGuy

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Edit - not really sure about that SRWare Iron app. Downloaded it and made the mistake of clicking on the update media player link [seems an obvious bad move, in hindsight, on my part but at the time I thought it was a browser extension]. Found myself trying to get out of installing all kinds of mods to the browser.  Also didn't find it helpful that the browser's blog is in German. The uninstall seems to have worked but it left the shortcuts on my desktop; so buyer beware & YMMV....

Not sure what you're talking about here, SRWare Iron is a browser that doesn't have the privacy intrusions that Chrome does. It's not an application. What's the update media player link you're talking about?

It's (English) homepage is here: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

tianming

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Freemake Video Converter , this is my choice.

OrB

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WaveShop - (GPL/portable/x86,x64) can be used as external audio-editor for MB (its like mp3DirectCut)
for mp3 encoding you need to download the requested dlls (libmp3lame 3.99.5)
and place them in the WaveShop-folder. The colors can be changed.
http://waveshop.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-libraries.php

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WaveShop - (GPL/portable/x86,x64) can be used as external audio-editor for MB (its like mp3DirectCut)
for mp3 encoding you need to download the requested dlls (libmp3lame 3.99.5)
Edits to MP3 files require the output file to be re-encoded, so in that respect it isn't like mp3DirectCut.
Bee excellent to each other...

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But it says " Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion" in the second line in http://waveshop.sourceforge.net/index.html
I downloaded it yesterday and looks very promising, very useful for audiophiles like us :) Thanks Orb

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I just added another piece to my software list. It's a new and upcoming download manager called EagleGet that just recently hit stable status.

I've never been big on download managers since I always found them overly obtrusive and the download speed improvement was usually negligible. But this one is different, you can set it up to be completely silent and unobtrusive, integration is flawless with all the major browsers and there's is a certain elegance in the way it operates I have never seen in any other download manager up until now. You definitely need to try this to see what I mean.

Can be found here: http://www.eagleget.com

GoodWill41

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Thanks, ma_t14, for mentioning this download manager.

Well, I used a few in the past but I've never been satisfied with them. I'm now using Eagleget for three days and it looks promising to me.


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thanks indeed ma_t14, I'm trying eagleget also :)
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mrad

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Just uninstalled EagleGet :

1) it couldn't get the size of a remote drive therefore deemed it not worthy to download to
2) it couldn't download YT vids that are presented using html5 and not flash in ie10
3) it downloaded html instead of a file at the other end of a redirector

it has to grow more, i'll perhaps try again next year if I remember.

ma_t14

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Just uninstalled EagleGet :

1) it couldn't get the size of a remote drive therefore deemed it not worthy to download to
2) it couldn't download YT vids that are presented using html5 and not flash in ie10
3) it downloaded html instead of a file at the other end of a redirector

it has to grow more, i'll perhaps try again next year if I remember.

I had to uninstall as well, it dowloaded a file with wrong extension (similar to your case) and there is still a bug with how duplicate downloads are handled. But more importantly when reporting bugs at the eagleget forums I felt the support is, to put in mildly, lacking. Anyway it's a promising project and I might give it another chance in the future when it matures.

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I can now say from experience that if you need to recover data from a dead hard drive, you want the free program PhotoRec: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.  It can work miracles when combined with this thing: http://www.newertech.com/products/voyagerq.php

I had three days to recover files before I had to send the drive back to the manufacturer, and I wasted two of them fighting with another program before I stumbled on PhotoRec.

Meanwhile, everybody remember your backups!  My last one was two months ago, and I failed to appreciate how much I'd done in just that time until it was gone.  Reconstructing is gonna be fun, but at least I have MusicBee to help.  :)
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I can now say from experience that if you need to recover data from a dead hard drive, you want the free program PhotoRec: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.  It can work miracles when combined with this thing: http://www.newertech.com/products/voyagerq.php

I had three days to recover files before I had to send the drive back to the manufacturer, and I wasted two of them fighting with another program before I stumbled on PhotoRec.

Meanwhile, everybody remember your backups!  My last one was two months ago, and I failed to appreciate how much I'd done in just that time until it was gone.  Reconstructing is gonna be fun, but at least I have MusicBee to help.  :)

That's why you rarely showed up recently. Glad to hear you got it recovered!

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That's why you rarely showed up recently. Glad to hear you got it recovered!

Thanks!  I'm going through now to see which of the recovered files are actually useful.  I figured not all of them would be, especially since a good percentage of them are likely to be files I deleted before the crash.  I'm on a borrowed work computer for now, but I may continue to be scarce until I get my computer back in working condition...
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