Anyone know a good free multiple MP3 ID3 tag editor?
Thanks in advance.
Switched Winamp with AIMP. The latter is just… wow.
Worth switching from foobar?
Was never a fan of foobar, so hard to say.
All I know is I had both Winamp and AIMP open at the same time to check memory usage. Winamp took 20 while AIMP only took 6. It’s light, startup is fast and while it doesn’t have a huge amount of skins, there are some fairly minimalistic nice ones, all of which have transparency and color changing options. Also has support for 32 bit sound.
I also got rid of SMplayer. It’s great, but there were just some things I couldn’t stand (lack of video options like sharpen, having to change settings like volume with every file I open… etc). So I got KMplayer… the newer beta. Everything SMplayer and Mplayer has, with an interface similar to AIMP (clean and simplistic).
Between KMplayer and AIMP you have ZERO need for any other video and audio programs. I have both open right now… a combined 8mb of memory usage. Holy shit!
From the looks of it, foobar is meant to be an alternative to iTunes rather than Winamp anyway, so comparison is hard. I got AIMP anyway and deleted Winamp. :lol:
Speaking of players, I use mainly GOM player, though I have VLC in case there’s something GOM can’t play (hasn’t happened yet, but still…). GOM renders files really nicely though, so I’m waaaay into that.
I’ll look into KMplayer, though. Seems cool.
KMPlayer would be my #1 video player if it formatted subs right…I like everything else about it. Maybe that’s changed in later versions?
Any of you with USB pen drives should check into pen suites. i have both Lupo Pen Suite and Portable Apps Suite installed on my 4 gig drive…it lets me audition all sorts of programs, use them across computers seamlessly…even avoid installing stuff altogether. I highly recommend both.
Yeah, I loved GOM. Unfortunately at some point, startup got slightly sluggish, videos with subtitles started frame skipping when processing the subtitles, and in some cases video would play super slow (audio as well).
VLC was god when I used it, but it seemed to have a lot of stuff I wasn’t familiar with or didn’t need.
So I made the switch to SMplayer, cause any player without built-in codecs is pretty much obsolete these days. Issues aside, its solid but obviously its still a big time work in progress. I don’t know about the older KMPlayer, but the new beta is amazing. I guess my only complaint is that it has a built-n clock that goes by 24 hours instead of 12. Would love to change that…
Check it out and see… latest beta is less than a month old.
It has an insane amount of subtitle options, easily the most I’ve seen of any player. 3 different ways to draw text, change font, rotate, resync, text size, 2x-3x anti aliasing…
I’ll check it out…my current version is 2.9.3.1428.
MagicISO is a pretty straight-forward optical drive emulation program. Very easy to use–a lot less headache than Daemon-Tools, which apparently isn’t free anymore anyway.
If anyone is not into Windows explorer to browse through your files, I recommend Freecommander. Simple, easy to use browser that doesn’t crash at all, as opposed to goddamn explorer.exe.
If you want to remove/add programs and don’t like the long startup the Windows default one has, have a look at Safarp. It’s basically a much faster loading add/remove programs thingy. I use it mainly because it loads one hell of a lot faster.
Two to add to the Programming: Interfaces and Evironments section: Code::Blocks and Dev-C++ - both nice C++ IDEs.
Also - MinGW for the compiler’s section.
Well, after using Firefox since before it was even 1.0, I had to say goodbye. I realized that it gradually started slowing down with each version, and although the add-ons were nice, I few I rarely even used. The ones I did use were the reason I held out for so long.
Switched to Opera… pretty much widely considered the fastest browser around, depending on where you read it. I always liked it, but some things I hated. However I figured it out, sat down and realized I had to do a handful of tweaks, but realized there was nothing to hate since it had everything I needed. Ditched Thunderbird also (had a couple issues with that). It feels great to have one software for both browsing and email, using an insanely low amount of memory at that.
So to compensate for the browser switch and the removed add-ons, I downloaded Orbit. This program is sex. Everything I could do with Download Helper in FF, I can do with this: rip MP3s and videos streaming on sites, mass download manager and more.
Basically, what I’ve done lately is replace most of the progs I had with better ones that take up less resources. As a result, my comp is running faster overall. Finally, NO running app takes up more memory than Explorer itself, as it should be.
I still like Firefox, and 3 is faster than 2 on my system. But Opera is and always has been my primary browser. I love it. If I had a POP account, it’d be my email reader, newsgroup reader, rss feed reader, and browser, and it’d be great at all of them.
What tweaks did you have to do?
I’m used to clicking an mp3 and having it play in FF… in Opera it automatically went to Orbit to download. I figured out you can switch between the Orbit and Quicktime plugins for handling mp3 files within the browser itself. Most of the tweaks were just settings and things I didn’t like, I was used to how they worked in FF, so I made sure to change them.
Did other stuff like changed the hompage to google, added Youtube to search option, made external programs handle certain file types instead of Opera, imported mail/settings/bookmarks and a bunch of other crap.
I guess my only complaint is that I miss having something like adblock. Blocking content works, but you can’t get everything.
Downloaded a pre-made urlfilter.ini… had a feeling something like these might be around. Now all the worst ads and such are blocked in Opera and I don’t have to waste time blocking them one at a time.
Can safely say there’s zero reason to use FF over Opera now, unless there’s an add-on you simply can’t live without.
Opera didn’t work out for me because it had printing problems on my current computer.
I am really getting into google documents right now, it’s such an awesome program. Great for sharing stuff, too.
sweet thread
Google Desktop is a decent program for quickly searching your PC for files and it can be used along side normal google searches in the browser (don’t worry the two are separate). I don’t use it much though, because my main comp is slow.
Anybody know a free prog I can use to “clean” free disk space?
Been using Recuva to recover deleted files, now I want a method to clean them out so they don’t take up phantom space.