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Free Christian Music Player is a free Christian Music software program that fits a RADIO into your Internet Browser's existing menu as an add-in. It lets you have an Online Christian music radio with all of the best Christian Music Rock Groups always within sight....so you never have to go searching for good religious music anymore. Listen to Free Christian Music (Contemporary, rock, pop, worship christian music) while you browse the internet!

Christian Music Radio Toolbar is 100% FREE and installs in just a few seconds. Once its installed, it will display similar to the above image. Simply select a Christian radio station from our list...or just hit "Play" to randomly choose one.

You'll be able to listen to the best Christian music online including: talk shows, music, and commentary.....all 100% free.

Key Features

• Google Search Box
• 100 of the top Christian Music Radio Stations
• Play, stop buttons for radio station control
• One-click skip to next station
• Favorites list to jump straight to your favorite radio station
• Simple install process. Uninstall link also included
• Volume and Mute Controls
• Stations organized by Genre
• Tell A friend - allows you to quickly send an email to a friend telling them to download the toolbar
• Add your own Station
• Auto - Update - we're constantly adding new stations

The standard media player that ships with Windows does a good job. It's free and it supports a range of media formats. However, as with virtually any free software, it has a downside. Its developers have concentrated on how to make some profit by selling media and not how to get you buying the player itself. This is probably the main reason why the default Windows media player is so slow. When you start it, it connects to the Internet, loads advertising and more.

It's time to think about a good replacement! @MAX Tray Player is intended for everyday use. Do you like to listen to background music when working with other Windows applications? Then @MAX Tray Player is for you. It embeds Player bar into Windows taskbar virtually becoming a part of Windows. Thus it doesn't obscure desktop and user application windows while always being at hand.

All basic actions, including: open files, play files, stop or pause file, go to next or previous file are easily accessible through corresponding buttons on the taskbar. You don't have to open the main window to control the player and you can easily access these buttons from any Windows application. Tray Player displays information about file being played including: play time, title and artist in the small floating window. One can adjust the transparency of this window or just hide it.
For key-binding fans all basic actions can be easily bound to hot keys. Using hot key combinations one can control the player regardless of the program being active at the moment.

Getting full control over player is easy - single mouse click brings up Player window. Besides basic actions it offers seeking functions, volume and balance adjustment, playlist editing etc. All Tray Player functions are also accessible through a popup menu which can be invoked either from the Player bar in Windows taskbar or from Player window.

While @MAX Tray Player is lightning fast and has a low impact on system resources, it is still a powerful and feature-reach media player.
To select files or whole folders for playing there are traditional choices such as open file dialog, drag'n'drop, explorer context menu as well as Tray Player special feature - My Media.

My Media browser window introduces an explorer-like interface to your media resources and provides many useful features to manage collections of your music and video files.

Moreover, there is an ingenious way to select media files from the Windows Tray.

A pop-up menu allows you to browse your multimedia collection and select folders or files as you select programs from your Windows Start button menu.

Tray Player provides you with a lot of options for configuring various parameters according to your personal preferences. One can change player position in the taskbar, buttons displayed, etc. Ever popular skin support is there too.

Tray Player can play audio, video and other multimedia files in the most popular formats, including:

• Windows Audio Files (wav, snd, au...)
• MPEG Audio Files (mp3, mp2, mpa...)
• MIDI Files (mid, midi, rmi...)
• MPEG Video Files (mpeg ,mpg, m1v, mpe...)
• Windows Media Files (wm, wma, wmv, asf...)
• OGG Vorbis Files (ogg) (you have to install OGG Vorbis DirectShow filter)
• Windows Video Files (avi)
• Audio CDs (cda)
• Playlist Files (pls, m3u)
• Multimedia formats support depend on specific codecs installed in the user operating system.

Because AVS script files are used, avi.NET requires AVISynth to be installed and VobSub also needs to be installed if subtitle support will be required. Finally, either the DivX or XviD (or both) video codecs need to be installed, all of which are available in the .Tools Package (DOWNLOADS section).

avi.NET will allow you to load in both MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (DVD/HDTV) files and convert them to an AVI file. Whether it be DivX or XviD that is chosen as the video codec, the resulting AVI file will be 100% standalone player compatible. It should play in your home dvd avi player just fine.

Using avi.NET is simple, select 'IN' and load in your movie file, usually a VOB or MPG file. The file will 'INDEX' (process will take a couple of minutes) and once completed you'll notice many options have automatically been set and the movie is playing, you can now select 'ADD' to add the job to the batch list.

Once one or more jobs have been added to the job list, the conversion can be started by pressing the 'START' button although further options can be selected or amending depending on your needs. The top three options are refering to the encoding mode; you can use SIZE mode, BITRATE mode, or QUALITY mode. SIZE mode is the most common and will convert you movie to a required size. For movie clips, music videos e.t.c select 'Custom' and input your required size. BITRATE mode will encode using the bitrate shown. QUALITY mode is a single pass quality based mode which uses the chosen quantiser to obtain a fixed quality throughout the encode. Higher numbers are lower quality and vice versa. The required audio track can also be chosen here. Clicking the 'No MP3 Conversion - Keep AC3' will keep the original audio as AC3. Subtitles need to be indexed before they are used which avi.NET will do automatically for you once selected. The 'Forced' option will include/display forced subtitles only and 'Only Make External Subtitles' will create seperate subtitle files rather than 'burn' them into the AVI.

Screen width allows you to select your required width for the final AVI file. When this option is changed the movies aspect ratio is re-calculated to allow the shape to stay correct, slight adjustments can be made by using the height - and + buttons. You can trim the edges of the movie allowing a nice crisp edge, this is important for encoding. The - and + buttons are refering the the amount of cut. When cutting is used, the amount of cut is displayed on the preview window. The 'Decomb Deinterlacing Filter' is needed for movies that are interlaced and display artefacts (jaggies/combing) on screen, which are quite unsightly. A smoothing/sharpening filter is also selectable to allow a slighly smoother or sharper effect to be added to the encode. Higher autocrop changes the threshold to allow more automatic edge removal. Be careful with this on dark movies or clips, it may take too much off and completely destroy the shape (ratio) of the screen, if so, select a lower value and re-load.

Select either the DivX or XviD codec depending on your preference. Advanced encode mode uses different codec settings which in theory delivers a 'better' quality encode, though conversion time is increased. Remove .TEMP removes the temporary files used for the preview/ conversion and I think shutdown PC needs no explaination.

When a movie is previewing you'll see brief but important information displayed. In this screen-shot XVID is refering to the codec selected and SIZE 896MB is refering to the encode mode and size chosen, all of which can be changed if desired. 0.22 is refering to the bits/pixel ratio, try to keep between 0.15 and 0.25. The screen aspect ratio is shown here as 1.74:1 and 640x368 is the current size of the movie being previewed and thus the size of the final conversion. The bottom section of avi.NET contains a slider and time display allowing you to easily preview anywhere in the movie.

Selecting a job in the batch box will display a little pop-up giving brief information for that encode. Right-clicking a selection in the box gives options to allow you to move up, down, and delete the required encode. Also, right-clicking the preview display, and also the information log window displayed during the encode, with give you options to minimise avi.NET. avi.NET is a .NET application thus requires the latest Microsoft .NET Framework (windows update). avi.NET is a Windows XP/Vista application.

MusicCubeOne is an attempt to do a simple yet neat looking mediaplayer for the Windows operating system. Though simple it holds the most required functions for handling and playing music in an easy manner.

The playlist gives a good and intuitive overview of the loaded files with information on title, album, artist and playing length when available. Rearranging is easily done be dragging the items using the mouse.

Files can be added using a file browser dialog designed to show extended information from the listed music files. This is similar to the information shown later on in the playlist. Adding files can alternately be done using drag'n'drop from the Windows Explorer or folders.

Build around the BASS Audio Library, MusicCubeOne plays the most common file formats currently available, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio and MIDI through soft-synthesis using SF2 format soundfonts. Also supported through plugins for the BASS Sound System is Free Lossless Audio Codec, OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio and more. Please note that playback of Windows Media Audio requires that the Window Media Format modules are installed.

The userinterface is constructed using a small skinning engine allowing a completely custom look. Two standard skins are bundled to start with. More skins may come later depending on the available developer resources.

MusicCubeOne includes multilingual support, allowing it instantly to change all texts in the user interface to a different language. Only a few languages are available a the moment, additional languages can be added given some help for translating the texts.

Audioblast is a program to edit sounds (WAV or MP3). It has all the basic edit functions, but also some special functions that you won't find in other sound editors.

• Program to edit sounds.
• Has all the standard desktop-functions (cut, paste, delete, mix and more).
• Record your own sound and let it be mixed with the sound you've already opened!
• You can make the speed 'changing'. The sound will be played slightly slower or faster.
• Cool effects: soften, alien, satellite, creaking, shrink.
• The graphic can be displayed in several ways.
• The two channels of a stereo sound are displayed individually and you can edit them individually.
• Convert your message to Morse.
• Of course you can also add echo, change the volume and reverse the sound.

FreeRIP is a Windows application that lets you extract audio CD tracks and save them to Wav, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files (this process is known as ripping). FreeRIP is also a audio file and MP3 converter and it can convert audio files from one of the named formats to another. E.G. FreeRIP can convert a WAV file to MP3 or a FLAC file to MP3, or an MP3 file to WAV and so on.

Converting your CD audio collection to digital audio files is a breeze with FreeRIP: download and install FreeRIP, put your audio CD into your computer's CD drive, run FreeRIP and click on the Rip button.

Once you have your digital audio tracks in your preferred format, just move them onto an audio player (e.g. a portable MP3 player such as an Apple iPod™, Creative Zen Player™ or Sony Walkman™), an advanced mobile phone, or burn them to a CD to listen in your car, stereo or Discman™.

With FreeRIP you can save tracks as CD quality WAV files or encode them to a lossy (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA) or lossless (FLAC) audio format.

FreeRIP is also an advanced MP3 audio file tag editor (supporting ID3 v1 and v2) and includes shortcuts to find track info (like lyrics or complete title) on the web, with just one click.

Vemail is voice email software that lets you record and send audio messages and memos from your email client.

To send a voice message with Vemail simply enter an email address and then press and hold down F6 while speaking. When you have finished recording, the message will be compressed and sent as an email automatically. Anyone can receive and listen to the audio email as it can be played with a standard media player.

Typical Applications

• Quick messages in the office. It is faster to vemail someone than to type an email or call.
• Messages between friends. Audio emails can be much more more personal than text.
• For people with disabilities who find it difficult to type.
• Use Vemail on your Pocket PC to get a message out faster.

Features

• Automates the recording of voice attachments to emails.
• Send emails to individuals or groups.
• Compresses the recording with selectable audio compression codec for ease of sending and receiving.
• Add written comments to be automatically included in the body of the email.
• Converts the recording into text as a draft to be include it with the email (speech to text engine required).
• Splices recordings together if required. For example if you want to continue recording after a short break it will join the segments together.
• Supports popular file audio formats - wav, gsm and mp3.
• Save current and sent recordings with the ability to search at a later date or burn directly to CD.
• System wide hot-keys can be set so you can send vemail by pressing a pre-defined key without opening the program.
• User friendly operation for day-to-day use. No technical knowledge required.

PlayPad is a free digital audio player program for Windows. Playing your music on a computer has never been easier. Within minutes you will be able to import your audio, create your playlist and simply listen.

PlayPad is deliberately designed to be light and easy to use without the add-ons which commonly weigh down other media players, yet it features standard functions such as shuffle, sort and looping and allows you to import a wide range of audio formats.

Features

• Play mp3, wav, music or any other audio and create playlists.
• Track and playlist features include shuffle and repeat.
• Supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
• Import previously compiled playlists or complete directories of audio files.
• Export a playlist (m3u, pls, wpl, xml) to batch convert or normalize in Switch Audio Converter
• Choose what you would like displayed in the list view including Title, Album, Artist, Name and format extension.
• Minimize to the system tray to run in the background.
• Music can be burnt directly to CD using Express Burn software to create an audio CD.
• Audio files can be edited directly using WavePad Audio Editor to add effects and more.
• Designed to be light, simple and robust.
• PlayPad is completely free.