November 19th, 2007
12:54 am
Audio
mp3DirectCut is a small and easy to use program can help you edit your mp3s. If you need to normalize the volume, change it, add fade effect, or detect pauses this is a very useful utility to have. You can also cut, paste and delete sections.
The manipulations are very fast and non-destructive. The nicest thing is that nothing is re-encoded, so you don’t loose quality. For the geeks there is also command line interface provided.
Very nice tool to have and strongly recommended!
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs, necessary to play (decode) and encode different audio and video formats. It is being updated frequently and it includes the means to play almost any audio and video format I have encountered.
The pack includes Media Player Classic and several tools for diagnostics and video usage. It can also detect problematic codecs and filters already on your system and helps you to remove them. It is very easy to install and I believe would suit anyone’s media playing needs.
MP3TAG is an extremely powerful application to edit metadata (ID3 tags, Vorbis comments, etc.) in a variety of audio formats (including mp3, flac, ape, m4a, mp4, m4b, ogg, etc.). It also allows to update tags from filenames and directories, update filenames and directories from tags, updates the whole or parts of the tags.
It also features powerful export with user defined templates, tag import from amazon, freedb, and other online databases. For those interested in other than English languages it supports UTF-8 and Unicode.
Awesome and strongly recommended software for managing the tags of your mp3 collection.


MPEG Audio Collection (a.k.a. MAC) is a powerful companion to MP3TAG. It creates a searchable database from your audio archive, reading file information and metadata (ID3, Vorbis comments, APE, etc.). MAC also supports generating variety of reports, in .txt, .html and .dif formats. Even though it has not been updated since 2003, it is still a worthy utility to have on your computer.

