2008
AutoRate : iTunes rating made easy
by sbrothierThis application automatically sets the rating for all tracks in your iTunes library according to how often each track is played, and how often each track is skipped.
Tracks that are frequently skipped are penalised, while often-played tracks are given a higher rating. This is particularly useful when using the 'Play higher rated songs more often' option with Party Shuffle, or using smart playlists.
Welcome to Chaotic Software
by sbrothier & 2 othersA collection of powerful tools for media enthusiasts with a Macintosh using Mac OS X. Media Rage can read and write information stored in MP3, AAC/MP4, FLAC, AIFF, WAVE, BWF, and Ogg Vorbis audio files as well as EXIF (read only) tags in digital images. Media Rage can assist you in cataloging, organizing, sorting, and updating thousands of audio files with ease.
MPFreaker 1.7.4 - MacUpdate
by sbrothier & 1 other (via)Imagine a program which automatically fills in missing information in your music library. MPFreaker searches the internet to find out what album that song belongs to, the year that song was released, what genre that album belongs to, track numbers, even album cover artwork and lyrics — and automatically adds this information directly into your song files, in seconds.
Tangerine! | Potion Factory
by sbrothier & 3 othersTangerine! lets you easily create playlists of upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It works by analyzing the BPM and the beat intensity of your music. Spend your time listening to music, not making playlists.
beaTunes ~ build better playlists
by sbrothier & 2 othersClean up your act! Get beaTunes 1.2!
What started out as a BPM detection tool for DJs, runners and dancers, has become one of the finest iTunes™ library management tools around.
beaTunes' powerful inspection feature let's you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists' names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod's artist list!
beaTunes can even help you to find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.
And once you have a clean collection, the built-in playlist generator works even better.
xACT 1.62 - MacUpdate
by sbrothierxACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end written in AppleScript Studio for the Unix applications Shorten, shntool, monkey's audio compressor, flac, and cdda2wav with paranoia support. It also uses a modified md5sum and sox. It does the basic commands of these applications and adds a few features to speed up productivity in creation of etree.org standard filesets.
Cog - Audio player for Mac OS X
by sbrothier & 1 otherWelcome to Cog's homepage, a free open source audio player for OS X. Currently it supports the following formats:
- Ogg Vorbis
- Mp3
- Flac
- Musepack
- Monkeys Audio
- Shorten
- Wavpack
- AAC
- Apple Lossless
- and more!
Rogue Amoeba - Airfoil: Send Any Audio to the AirPort Express
by sbrothier & 2 othersAirfoil also adds the fantastic ability to send audio to multiple AirPort Express units at once. It's now possible to send audio all around your house right from your computer. Don't spend thousands of dollars on expensive solutions to get your audio throughout your home. "Wire" your whole house wirelessly, using AirPort Express units, and give your audio wings with Airfoil.
2007
Specere - Macintosh Software
by sbrothierGet ready for Menuet, the ultimate iTunes extender. Sitting quietly in your menu bar, Menuet is a program that allows you to effortlessly control iTunes using your mouse, hot keys, or with one of our beautiful, skinnable remotes. And Menuet does a whole lot more...
Put a Face on your Digital Music Collection More Menuet
Browsing through your music collection, while now much more efficient thanks to iTunes, has nevertheless lost a lot of its fun. Luckily, we've narrowed it down to a critical event in the history of music: the loss of album art in digital music collections. And we didn't stop there. We're proud to introduce our solution to this problem.
barbarian software | magnetosphere
by sbrothier (via)Here is this thing that does stuff in iTunes. There is magnetism, there is gravity, but on top of all of that, there is awesomeness. Watch as all the dots and ribbons go bouncy bouncy when you play music and trigger this mo-fo of a visualizer. This is the future of visuals. God help you if you smoke the reefer cause you can kiss your productivity goodbye.
By the way, don't go crazy with the A and S keys - they add or subtract a hundred particles at a time - tap once or twice and wait for the results. If it starts acting poorly because you hit a bunch of keys, just quit and restart.
Clutter by Sprote Rsrch.
by sbrothier & 5 others (via)Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere -- they're really windows. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it's your choice. Each one looks like the real CD's cover, and double-clicking it tells iTunes -- or your SqueezeBox or SoundBridge -- to play that CD.
Blue Coconut:: Share your itunes music library
by sbrothier & 3 othersEver found that your iTunes music library wasn't quite as shared as you wanted? Annoyed that you can't copy a song from your server to your laptop quickly and easily, from within everyone's favourite music jukebox application? Want to make a playlist with shared tracks? Blue Coconut is for you.
Simply click one button while you're listening to a favourite shared track and it's copied to your machine, and added to the iTunes Music Library (and a playlist, so you can keep track of your downloads).
Audion 3 - The ultimate Macintosh MP3 player / encoder
by sbrothier & 1 other Hi! I'm a single app that bravely handles all your audio needs - I'm easy to use, but with gobs of advanced features ready to be discovered! I can play your Audio CDs, your MP3s, and your streaming network audio, I can encode, edit, mix, sort and manage, visualize and hypnotize. And now that I'm 3, I can broadcast, record, crossfade, and even hang with your iPod. Best of all, I've got that Panic design - light, simple, and powerful. It's sure nice to meet you! Go on, download me!
2006
iZotope, Inc - Audio Processing Technology and Plug-Ins for Pro Tools, VST, MAS, Audio Unit, and DirectX
by sbrothier & 1 otheriZotope is a research-driven audio software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its products and audio technology are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from hobbyist musicians to the Discovery Channel, Sony, and GRAMMY Award winners. iZotope focuses on developing innovative audio technology for professional and consumer applications. This core technology is presented to customers in its award-winning product line and through its extensive licensing program.
ARTURIA - Computer Aided Music, Sound Synthesis and Virtual Instruments
by sbrothierARTURIA is a company which specializes in the development of innovative music software. Located in Grenoble, France, ARTURIA was founded in 1999 by Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both INPG-qualified engineers.
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.
by sbrothier & 14 othersWant to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player
by sbrothier & 56 othersSongbird is a complete desktop media player or "jukebox" with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services.
Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small, chirpy team of digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net, a location-independent digital media network service acquired by Yahoo!.
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