Media Applications
Contents
Windows
- Automatic Cover art - Album art retrieval tool
- Automatic Cover art - Album art retrieval tool
- AudioShell - Metadata viewer (Windows Explorer plugin)
- BLISS - multiplatform Music auditor
- Cdcovers - Album art retrieval tool
- dBpoweramp - CD ripper, audio Metadata editor etc
- foobar - Audio player that also contains a media format batch transcoding feature
- iTunes scripts- Manage iTunes for Windows
- Jaikov - Media library management and group update editor
- Kid3 - Audio Metadata Editor
- Media Art Aggregator - Album art retrieval tool
- MediaMonkey - Media library management and tag editor
- MediaCoder - Media format batch transcoder application
- Mp3tag - Metadata editor for Windows
- PerfectTunes - Beta release track validity, coverart and duplicate checker
- Qoobar - Tagger for Classical Music
- ripcaster - contains links to various useful tools
- softpointer - Metadata editor for Windows
- SongKong - Simple Music auditor
- Tagalicious - for iTunes tagging
MAC
- Max - Metadata editor, CD Ripper for Mac
- XLD - Metadata editor, CD Ripper for Mac XLD setup guide
- Media Rage 3 - Metadata editor for MAC
- iTunes - save Album art as Folder.jpg
- Media Monkey / Wine Skin for Mac
- Jaikov - Media library management and group update editor
- Qoobar - Tagger for Classical Music
- BLISS - multiplatform Music auditor
- Metadatics - Audio Metadata Editor
- Kid3 - Audio Metadata Editor
- MusicBrainz_Picard - MusicBrainz Picard
- dBpoweramp - CD ripper, audio Metadata editor etc
Linux
- Qoobar - Tagger for Classical Music
- BLISS - multiplatform Music auditor
- Kid3 - Audio Metadata Editor
Android (Blackberry 10 using AppStore)
- BubbleDS Next Linn DS control point with Tidal Radio options
- Double Twist player - UPnP Media control point and streaming
- AirAudio - Stream audio files from Android (need rooted to stream etc)
- Streambels Streamaudio files from Android (need rooted to stream etc)
- Allcast Stream audio files from Android
- MezzMo Stream audio files from Android (for Blackberry Enable "Share Music" in Media Sharing)
Streaming apps
(Not for the faint hearted)
Test suggestions
Checking internet connection consistency
If your Radio keeps muting and you have a Windows PC you can check how good your connection is to the internet using PingPlot.
This will be installed on your PC and can be used to "ping" your streaming server.
Pingplot can be downloaded from github and run from command line or Shortcut. E.g.
BBC test
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PingPlot\pingplot.exe" -p -H bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net -n 1 -f BBC_ping
If you have the Uri of the Radio streaming service, you can use this to check its connection.
At the end of your test time hit CTRL-C and this will show you a time related graph of the internet latency found by your PC.
