General Comments on Media Players and Files

So, what is iTunes? iTunes is a fine program made by those brilliant people at Apple. It is designed to play MP3's, WAV's and AIFF files. It organizes all your MP3 files in to a library, and allows you to create playlists. It also allows you to 'rip' MP3's from CD, and also 'convert' MP3's from WAV's and AIFF's. Ah... but it's for Mac. Yep. Damn good idea. Before this, you had to play all your MP3's back on QuickTime, or Soundjam, both of which were pretty appaling programs. But with this, it makes things so much easier. And if you don't believe me, view the Apple.com/iTunes website for some ...  Read the complete review

Well im surprised that this hasnt been mentioned so far. But then I relised that when MP3's first came out not many people knew about them either. OK we all know what a dvd is. Its a disk the size of a cd-rom but can hold about 4000MB compared to the standard 650MB. DVDs are commonly used to hold movies on them with very high quality. The only problem is if you dont want to get your most prized DVD getting scratched then the only solution is not to use it. We like the films so thats not gonna happen now is it. Anyway, some people seen this and decided that there has to be a way to compress the movie like what has happened to wav files into mp3. This new ...  Read the complete review

Well, as you all read from Mr Whitei's Post DivX ;-) movies are the latest thing. Although one question which should be brought up is the legality of such a format. What is DivX ;-)??? DivX is a new way to encode movies. Currently DVDs are encoded in the Mpeg2 standard and they're size is very big, i.e. for a typical movie you are talking about 5-6 Gigabytes. DivX is different as it uses better encoding techniques which can reduce this by a factor of about eight. Is DivX ;-) Legal??? Not really. DivX is a hacked version of Microsoft’s new Mpeg 4 codec (thus the cheeky wink ;-) ). It is illegal to use and to ...  Read the complete review

I have been using windows media player 6 for years and never had any bother with it. It was the everything I wanted in a media playing device. Of course I then started wanting to steam videos from certain sites because it was the only way to see certain content. This was not possible as all movies now use WMP9 or Real player G2. So I decided it was time to upgrade. I'm glad I did too, this new windows media player is packed full of new features and makes finding music on your computer much easier. It is also able to play more types of audio files including CD audio. Now theres no real need for my CD player program. Other features include being able ...  Read the complete review

This Program is the biggest waste of 4Mb I have ever seen. This Program can do nothing tha Winamp can do. It also has adverts, there is nothing worse than flashing gif at the bottom of your screen using up bandwith downloading more adverts. This program also installs spyware. Spy ware tells Radiate where you are and what you are clicking on etc. For more info go to http://www.gozilla.com/privacy.html . If you are still feeling brave I won't stop you downloading it from http://www.gozilla.com/download/playzilla20.exe ... But I'd advise you not to. ...  Read the complete review