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A Minimalistic MP3 Downloader

Looking for a new way to download MP3s? Try Mielophone. It’s a minimalistic application for searching, listening, downloading and discovering new music. It mashes up together databases like MusicBrainz, Last.FM and BBCRadio to deliver complete info about songs, artists and albums. And uses unique plugin system to search for publicly available mp3s and streams for desired songs. In other words, it gives you the free will to download or stream music. Your choice. Oh, and it also comes in a Windows 8 style interface.

There are two ways to install the application. You can download the generic AIR package as well as Adobe AIR Runtime which requires administrator access or you can download the platform-specific package and install it in a way common to selected platform. Having said that, Mielophone is available for Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux to maximize the…um..music sharing… reach.

Check out the video demo below and some screenshots:

 

 

 

 

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Dirpy: Quick Online Video to High Quality MP3 Converter

Dirpy is a web app that lets you convert videos to mp3 online. It also doubles a search engine that lets you find videos that you want to convert and download as MP3. Dirpy finds files by utilizing Google’s expansive search indexes and advanced query syntax. It constructs specific search queries to try to find the best file matches hosted in open directories.

The application transcodes high quality YouTube videos to MP3 are in real time for download. This simply means that when Dirpy starts downloading the video from YouTube, it automatically converts it to mp3 as the download progresses. This will make download quicker reducing the time it takes to download the mp3. Other sites will transcode the video first before allowing you to download the mp3 version.

Another interesting feature of Dirpy is its ability to transcode Sub-Tracks. You can transcode a portion of the video. For example, you can convert a video trac from 0:05 to 1:34. This is particularly useful if you want to take a portion of the audio in a particular YouTube video. Instead of downloading the full audio track and using a third party software to take away the unwanted parts, you can simply set the portion of the audio you want to take.

What makes Dirpy different from other Video ( YouTube) to MP3 converter?

Real-time Transcoding

Start downloading your favorite mp3′s immediately.

Higher Quality Mp3′s

Higher quality mp3′s supported, like 128kbps 44.1khz stereo and higher

Transcode Sub-Tracks

Transcode a portion of the video, like from 0:05 to 1:34.

No Obnoxious Advertisements

Never any full screen, pop-up, pop-under, or intrusive ads. Ever.

File Parameters

Options to specify parameters like the filename, title, artist, etc.

Incorperated Search

Finding files of interest is quick and easy.

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ChirBit: Micro Podcasting Tool

Chirbit is a simple audio sharing tool that gives you the Twitter feel. The only difference is that instead of sharing snippets of text to your followers, you get to share audio files and recordings. Chirbit enables you to record, upload, listen, and share sound bites easily.

How long can a chirbit be?

You can record as long as you like. There is no 12 second limit. Then why is it called a Micro-Podcasting site? Maybe because it gives you the Twitter feeling when using it.

Chirbit can be used for Micropodcasts, Confessions, Jokes, Sound Effects, Apologies, Quotes, Music, Branching Fiction, etc. What is branching fiction? It is like a literary Exquisite corpse or like a choose your own adventure created by you and your friends. One person starts the story with a seed sentence and the next user continues it with the next sentence.

To start using Chirbit, all you need is a microphone for recording or an audio file (MP3, Wav) to upload. Of course, you’ll need to sign up for an account first. Don’t worry, the service is totally free and you can join the micro-podcasting community anytime. Chirbit also allows you to post your podcasts on Facebook, Twitter, Email, and RSS Feeds.

*You can also use iPhone Voice Memos to post to Chirbit. This feature is still on private beta. If you want to try it, contact the Chirbit team to gain access to the feature.

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Vloud Makes your MP3s Louder

Vloud is a simple web tool that you can use to increase the loudness of your MP3s. If you think that your Mp3 is not loud enough for you after adjusting the volume to the max, you can use Vloud to make the adjustment.

vloud is a free audio tool upload quiet mp3s, and get louder ones back

Just select the level of loudness you want and upload your Mp3 then download it back in its louder form. The intensity of the loudness upscale is not mentioned in the website. It just lets you pick the level by yourself. There is no added information whatsoever. The only way to find out is to test it yourself.

You can upload mp3 and wav files and make them louder. Each upload is allowed a 10MB file size limit which is good for high bitrate music files. I only did one test and it worked great. I didn’t get to test if it will allow you to reduce the volume of loud mp3s. Anyway, this might come in handy from time to time.

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Online Converter: Video Files to MP3

Here’s a simple web tool that will rip any video file of its sound/audio and lets you save it as MP3. The converter is called VidtoMP3. It’s a neat and easy way to download MP3 from your favorite online Tube artists. The service is completely free and no registration is required in order to start ripping. No more downloading third party audio rippers to take the videos out of the picture.

The process is very simple. It’s just like using a video downloader. Just place the URL of the video to the VidtoMP3 converter and wait a little bit for to finish the conversion. Once it’s done, you can start downloading the MP3 file.

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Convert Any Media Online

Media Convert is an online application that converts media formats from audio files, video, presentation, documents, spreadsheets, images and even archives.  You do not need to install and find a software or application (most are equipped with spyware and adware if you get them for free) for your system just to convert as specific type of media. Eee PC users might find this site very useful because of the limited storage capacity of the notebook.

The service is one hundred percent free, but comes with a file size limit of 150 MB. I know that it is not enough to convert your HD movie into avi but it does the trick for smaller video files and more importantly mp3′s to aac or wma. They even convert ring tones for cell phones.

MediaConvert can also be a handy tool for inter platform users of document editors. It will easily make your Open Office documents be readable by Microsoft Office. This is great if you are attaching documents through email to people who are not using your application. The service also have the ability to convert PDF to SWF Flash file for easy insertion to websites, export Microsoft Access to Excel Table, capture a website as an image and my personal favorite, convert  text into morse code.

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