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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: WolfWalker on January 14, 2011, 07:26:36 am

Title: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: WolfWalker on January 14, 2011, 07:26:36 am

I was wondering what software that you consider to be necessary to maintaining your music, pictures and video needs.

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: MrHaugen on January 14, 2011, 07:53:35 am

J River Media Center
AC3
CoreAVC
CCCP

All you ever need imo :)

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: BryanC on January 14, 2011, 01:38:15 pm

ffdshow tryouts
haali media splitter
MC15
EAC
foobar2000
Picasa

For HTPC:

ffdshow tryouts
haali
MC15
Eventghost
Sickbeard/Sabnzbd+
Flash
Silverlight

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: rjm on January 14, 2011, 03:44:18 pm

CCCP (best codec pack)
VLC (plays everything)
Collectorz.com Movie Collector (manage video meta data)
Calibre (manage and convert epub/mobi ebooks)
dtDesktop Search (ebook content search)
Nero Recode (rip dvds to x264)
VueScan (scan slides and photos)
Super Flexible File Synchronizer (backup data)
XYplorer (windows explorer replacement)
Brief (Firefox addin for monitoring rss torrent feeds)
MC15 (manage all media including music audio & video, comedy audio & video, audiobooks, podcasts, radioplays, ebooks (except epub/mobi fiction), documentaries & movies (except meta data), family photos & video, stock images)

In my utopian world, MC will someday be enhanced enough to eliminate the need for Calibre and Movie Collector.

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: globetrotters1 on January 18, 2011, 03:06:45 pm

Well, there are a lot of very useful programs around, we use:

- EAC to rip audio CDs (slow but perfect rips)
- foobar2000 to convert certain audio files (APE to FLAC etc), NOT as a player, just as a converter
- Medieval CUE Splitter (best splitter to my knowledge, fast, easy, works)
- MP3Tag to streamline tag works (VERY good and 'programmable' actions!, also fills in data from all kinds of online websites/services)
- RenameMaster (superb program to influence track naming, VERY flexible)
- Album Art Downloader
- DVDFab to rip movie DVDs to hard disk (eliminates almost all blocking mechanisms)

and of course the best Media Player available on the market

- JR Media Center 15  ;D  ;D  ;D

Probably also to mention is a website we use to attach missing subtitles (all kinds of languages) to movies:

- http://www.sub-titles.net/ (http://www.sub-titles.net/)

and a website with LOTS of movie folder pics (those MC15 cannot find, also in all kinds of languages etc):

http://www.movieposterdb.com. (http://www.movieposterdb.com.)

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: kurushi on January 27, 2011, 04:15:00 pm

For me only :
An internet connextion ;MC15 and my external hdds.
I don't need so much tool if i want a codec MC15 do the job for me :)

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: Scolex on January 28, 2011, 12:45:16 am

The ones in my tool box without them I wouldn't be able to buy new toys/gadgets (auto tech).
Adobe CS4 Master Collection
CCCP
MP3tag
Camtasia

Title: Re: What tools do you consider as important to your media?
Post by: terrya64 on May 30, 2011, 03:45:52 pm

Love my books,  I have the following:

1001 Albums you must hear before you die.  " I have all of them"

Joel Whitburne Books:

Billboard book of top 40 hits
Top Pop singles
Rock tracks
Billboard hot 100 annual
Top country songs
songs and artist
Hot dance disco
top hits 1940-54
top r&b/ hip hop singles
Billboard albums

Software:

Mediacenter 16  " does almost everything I need"
Mp3gain
Muvundercover " not so much anymore, mc's cover search works well most of the time"

Website:

Rateyourmusic.com   "awesome site, mostly use it for genre and release year research"
Allmusic.com