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 Do you want a Home Theatre with audio streaming throughout your home, a digital photo album to organize all your photos and webcam videos, access to web streams and information like weather, news, sports or Wikipedia, plus a super TiVo? With MediaPortal (MP) you can do all this and more, from the comfort of your sofa. It is the most feature rich Media Center software in the world today, and it's free! 

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Developer: XtremeMP

Version: 0.7.0

Downloads Count: 1398

Price:

License Type:free

Date Added:08/14/2012

Operating Systems: Windows

File Size: 4.6 MB

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 Xtreme Media Player is a handy, most easy to use, cross-platform media player. Beging developed in Java will most likelly work on all systems. The fact that you can listen to a lot of audio formats will certainly appeal to the user. Also this application offers you the posibility of reading the tag info which also is a plus.

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Developer: Ventis Media

Version: 3.2.5.1306

Downloads Count: 348

Price:N/A

License Type:free

Date Added:10/24/2011

Operating Systems: Windows

 File Size: 7.86 MB

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Despite a glut of free player/encoders, it's tough to find one that meets our expectations. Formerly known as Sound DB, MediaMonkey has excellent library-management tools that keep the largest digital music collections well organized. Stir that up with integrated CD and DVD burning, a stellar interface, a full-featured encoder, and the ability to sync with portable audio devices such as the iPod, and you have a pretty compelling product. Upon first launch, the program scans your drive for supported digital media files to add to the library. Files are sorted based on their ID3 tags, and the helpful Auto-Rename and Auto-Tag From Filename features keep untagged tracks from falling through the cracks. Party mode locks down your library while still allowing people to request songs. Auto DJ plays selections from your library even when there are no requests in the queue, and the all-important iPod and portable device synchronization works well. Third-party plug-ins are available from the site if you want to tinker with the playback and encoding engine or add additional sound-processing effects. The interface is well designed, with clean, colorful icons throughout.

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Developer: Peter Pawlowski

Version: 1.1.8

Downloads Count: 646

Price:N/A

License Type:free

Date Added:10/24/2011

Operating Systems: Windows

File Size: 3.11 MB

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This venerable and free alternative audio player has long been appreciated by hard-core customization enthusiasts, but Foobar2000 isn't just for early adopters or software jukebox fetishists. It doesn't mess with fancy buttons or bright colors, instead preferring a utilitarian, straightforward user interface to let the music speak for itself. Foobar2000 uses tabs and panels to help the user navigate its plain, but functional, user interface. You can customize the interface using several layout options. Menu options and recognizable command buttons reside at the top of the window. Two panels, each with tabbed menus, reside on the left side of the window. From there, you can view the album list and the properties of a selected artist or song. You'll also find tabs for viewing a spectrogram, a spectrum, and VU meter of music currently being played. The largest panel displays track lists. Using the menu options, we were able to successfully pull music files from a CD, load them into the player, play them without issues, and save them as MP3s or WAVs. You can also display album art, and synchronize with portable players including iPods.

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Developer: Apple

Version: 7.70.80.34

Downloads Count: 146

Price:N/A

License Type:free

Date Added:10/24/2011

Operating Systems: Windows

File Size: 37.15 MB

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 After 10 years and with millions of users worldwide, Apple's QuickTime player still provides one of the best solutions for digital media. Whether you're watching streaming movie trailers online or diving headlong into QuickTime as a creation platform, you'll find little to quibble about in this veteran player. Its few quirks are quickly offset by the elegant Apple interface and the top-notch audio/video playback quality. QuickTime 7 comes in two varieties. The free standard player handles popular audio, graphic, and video formats, including the much-ballyhooed H.264 and MPEG-4. Also, for $29.95, you can upgrade to the content-creation-friendly Pro version, which adds features such as full-screen playback, easy editing, H.264/MPEG-4 production, and the ability to save movies from the Web. MPEG-2 support is available, but at an additional cost of $19.95.High-definition content looks impressive with the new H.264 codec, but hardly better than with similar offerings from Microsoft. The stylish transport controls and the friendly layout work well. Inclusion of the autoupdate and automatic-network-detection features make getting started and staying current easy.

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Developer: Media Player Classic

Version: 6.4.9.1

Downloads Count: 1183

Price:

License Type:free

Date Added:08/14/2012

Operating Systems: XP

File Size: 4.52 MB

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