Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
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 [...]
GYM, which stands for “Grab Your Music” allows you to browse, play and extract the tunes stored in your Network Walkman. Interface-wise it’s reminds me of a more plain iTunes minus the left “Source” column.The extraction thing is what’s the fuss is about here, since GYM seems to be the first piece of software that [...]
Review: Nero 7 Ultra Edition: PC Mag gives it a 4/5 rating, noting its excellent mastering and audio capabilities. [via]
m:robe loader: allows you to drag & drop music to your Olympus m:robe MP3 player. What if Olympus’ portable audio players section went down? Rock on.[via]
SilentNight Micro CD Burner: an executable file that you can run (no installation needed) to burn a CD/DVD with no fuss. Useful to have on your USB key, just in case. Less than 1.2MB in size, Windows only. [via]
FoxiPod: neat Greasemonkey hack which I’ve discovered recently (OSX only, though). Once installed a little icon is placed next to any MP3 file on a webpage; click it, and the song is downloaded and automatically transferred to iTunes.
amaroK: a LiveCD music player, that comes with preloaded music (including tunes from everyone’s favorite label, Magnatune). It’s not lacking in eye candy (screenshots) and if it’s as stable as they say, you could use it to turn that dieing PC into a music jukebox (and increase your geek/nerd quotient while you’re at it); if [...]
BitTorrent clients review:
the small, light, yet powerful μTorrent (which Greeks, like yours truly, will probably refer to as ‘mTorrent’ because of that first letter) seems to win hands down—gotta give this one a go
Rufus’ web interface and ‘selective downloads’ features move it to second place
ABC—which is the one I use—lacks UPnP support
finally: I agree that [...]
Review: Cambridge Audio Azur 340A integrated amplifier (goes for a mere—in audiophile’s terms—$250, yet earns glowing review; “When you buy forty watts, you should know what you’re not getting. The thing is, the forty watts that the 340A does deliver are of excellent, in fact audiophile quality, and more than enough for most real-world listening.”; [...]