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Free apps for organising and tagging your MP3s

Free apps for organising and tagging your MP3s

Too many messily named MP3s cluttering up your hard drive? Neaten up your songs with one of these apps.

22/02/2008 01:17 PM

Top free CD/DVD burning apps

Top free CD/DVD burning apps

Want a quick and dirty app for burning CDs on the cheap? Here are three free options for your music and data desires.

25/01/2008 10:44 AM

Ditch the disc: A guide to online music and videos in Australia

CDs and DVDs are like so 1990s, man. If you're ready to ditch the disc and want to disco over to digital, then check out CNET.com.au's list of the major online media stores in Australia.

16/01/2008 01:52 PM

Bringing gigs home on your phone

Bringing gigs home on your phone  Video

With most mobile phones now sporting cameras of 2-megapixel resolution or higher, concerts have become fair game for fans keen on capturing the experience for sharing with fellow band devotees. But is the resulting footage any good? We took a phone to a gig to find out.

04/04/2007 05:30 PM

iTunes: Just how random is random?

Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test -- and finds some surprising results.

08/03/2007 06:21 PM

MP3 blogs: For some great music online

If you've been wondering where's a good place to sample new music other than the iTunes Music Store, here's a treat for your eardrums.

14/02/2007 04:28 PM

It's the new social: Music discovery services

By the time the Zune hits Australia's shores (if ever), the social would have gone to bed. Here's our primer on how to search for free music online.

08/02/2007 01:49 PM

Favourite iPodware

If you can't wait around for iTunes to add iPod-to-PC backup functionality or convert your movies, check out these apps for enhancing the ubiquitous audio and video player.

02/02/2007 11:34 AM

Listening in on Pandora  Image Gallery

Internet radio service gathers listeners as founder tours the US meeting music lovers.

26/07/2006 02:06 PM

Apple iLife '06  Image Gallery

Apple iLife '06, the media-wrangling suite from Apple, includes a new app -- iWeb -- and solid improvements to existing apps, including podcasting and photocasting. It's well worth the AU$199 licensing fee.

23/05/2006 10:35 AM

Mobile Essentials: Great downloads for people on the go

If you're always on the move, check out these essential downloads for your Treo, BlackBerry or Apple iPod.

28/04/2006 12:01 PM

Updated: Supercharge your iPod

The iPod is the top portable music player, but as you'll see, it can be a whole lot more.

18/04/2006 02:59 PM

Photos: A faux-rap battle rages  Image Gallery

As Hollywood adapts to online realities, video-sharing sites could soon face a day of reckoning.

14/03/2006 02:51 PM

Photos: Sneak peek at Windows Media Player 11 for Vista  Image Gallery

At CES 2006, we saw a demo of Windows Media Player 11, which boasts a cleaner and more logical design as well as snappier performance. Check out screenshots from the latest build of WMP 11 for Vista.

28/02/2006 05:46 PM

Photos: Classic rock online  Image Gallery

Entrepreneur is putting thousands of hours of unheard Hendrix, Dead and other Bill Graham-promoted shows online.

22/02/2006 12:01 PM

Photos: High-tech DJ works the hard drive  Image Gallery

Lorin Ashton, who also goes by the name of his musical project, Bassnectar, at work in his studio.

29/11/2005 02:50 PM

Photos: Adobe Premiere Elements 2  Image Gallery

Premiere Elements' arsenal of video and audio effects has been beefed up with this release, and we greatly prefer how the streamlined interface makes it easy to find them. You still won't find the fun filters of other tools, but it has professional blur and color effects that the others can't touch.

08/11/2005 02:11 PM

iTunes Music Store: An Australian Guide

Complete with a full review of iTunes 6.0, reviews of the video-capable iPods, answers to FAQs, plus other on-line music buying options.

25/10/2005 04:01 PM

Get free, legal MP3s

Looking for new music but don't want to drop a lot of dough on MP3s from online music stores? Use one of these four stream-ripping apps to record Internet radio and pull out the MP3s you want. One even works with Mac OS X and iTunes, so you can put the new music on your iPod.

19/09/2005 03:21 PM

Ditch the disc: A guide to online music in Australia

CDs are like so 1990s, man. If you're ready to ditch the disc, check out CNET.com.au's list of on-line music stores in Australia.

02/05/2005 02:28 PM

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