Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Cog is an open-source audio player for the Mac (OS X 10.4 and above) with support for all major lossless formats—in active development. Worth a look; its interface is that of your typical neat Mac app (is there an app for that platform that doesn’t look good?). [via]
OS X widget: Amazon Album Art: smooth. Choose the tracks in iTunes, press the widget’s “Get from iTunes” graphic button, when the appropriate cover has been found just click the “Set as album art in iTunes” button and you’re done. A web demo is available. [via]
Also: check our post on album art finder tools.
GarageBand 3 makes podcast creation a snap:
In addition to being one of the best ways to make music on a computer, GarageBand 3 is now also a complete solution for creating professional quality Podcasts. Voices can easily be recorded using the built-in expertise of an audio engineer and Podcasts can be enhanced with radio-style sound [...]
Microsoft ceases development of the app, continues to offer the current version for download and offers the Flip4Mac plugin for free. Said plugin allows users to work with .wmv and .wma files in QuickTime.
It’s a win-win for both parts. It didn’t make sense for MS to continue spending resources on a platform dominated by Apple’s [...]
Mac users/Creative Nomad owners (the 5 of you) your prayers have been answered, in the 4-letter goodness that seems to be XNJB.
XNJB is a Cocoa graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players.
As the owner of what is undoubtedly The Best. Portable Audio Player. Ever. (NOMAD Jukebox [...]
Mac users, another guide to convert your DVDs to an iPod-compatible format: also have a look at our wrap-up of guides for converting video to iPod.