2 posts tagged “tags”

A while back, I downloaded Media Monkey (free of course) from Cnet Download Site (this link takes you right to the media monkey download page.) This is a great program especially if you have a large media library.  I am not feeling very creative tonight so I will just share their blurb.  However, I will add it can become addictive. I am adding album art, editing genre, rating my favorites, and hours just fly.  It can sync with Itunes etc but I never did use it for that.  I like being able to change an entire album information at once.  It was easy to set up and I have never had any problems with it.

Here is their review. Cnet gave it top marks. 

"MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist editors for creating music mixes. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don't have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player. It also includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to quickly synch tracks and playlists with iPods, MP3 Phones, and other portable audio devices.

Version 2.5.5 adds support for iTunes phones, improves iPod and MTP device synchronization, improves FLAC support."

I love the Del.icio.us site at http://del.icio.us/.

I was referred to it by a book that I am reading on Wikinomics and quickly I learned how to make real butterscotch and how to refill Brita Water Pitchers filters for pennies.

I installed the little tool bar button and now any time I visit a site I enjoy I can save it by clicking the installed Del.icio.us button.  A dialogue box displays allowing me to add tags, notes and descriptions.  But best of all is that my tags are then aggregated with all others using Del.icio.us which are then grouped as a link for viewers to access. So at any time, the most popular sites are quickly visible when you visit the Del,icio.us site. 

For example, I found http://www.typepadhacks.org/2008/03/twitter-tools-t.html on the the home page of the website http://del.icio.us/.  It looked fascinating and I decided to save it and read it later. Before leaving the site, I clicked my Del.icio.us button to save it. Now when I return to the Del.icio.us site, I can access all the links I have saved for future reference. 

Another feature is that it builds communities.  It is available as a link in Vox on our blog so that people can click the Del.icio.us link and see all the favorites of the Blog author - in this case me. If you want to try it out, you can access my favorite links by clicking on my Del,icio.us link. It is right under my picture on my blog http://izzysworld.vox.com/ and has a square next to it filled with four colored squares.