Kiran Upadhyay

I have nothing against Internet radio stations. In fact, I love to listen to radio online, and here at MakeUseOf, writers have covered a multitude of awesome applications you can use to listen to and even broadcast Internet radio stations. Travis reviewed FilterMusic , Sandra covered Screamer, Musicovery and RhythmBox , and Grant covered Pandora . Jason even showed you how to make your own radio station with Shoutcast . All of these are fantastic apps for Internet radio, but what do you do when you have a bunch of local FM radio stations that you love, and you’re working at a computer where there’s no access to a regular AM/FM radio? The answer is RadioTime . These days the majority of FM radio stations stream their broadcasts over the Internet. It’s very difficult (if even possible) with most Internet radio players to find your local FM streams amid the huge collection of Irish folk music or FM radio stations from Bangladesh. I’ve nothing against Irish folk music or Bangladesh, bu...

I love my audio CD collection. I really do. But carrying a hundred CDs with me on a vacation just so that I can listen to that one song when I have to, isn’t exactly my idea of fun. On the other hand, my iPod lets me take more than a hundred CDs worth of songs and is perfectly at peace sitting in a corner of my backpack. So is there even a choice here ? For folks like me who have a small fortune invested in CDs of their favorite artists, the best option is to convert all those CD tracks to MP3 format and that is what this post is about. A list of 5 tools that’ll help you convert your CD’s to an MP3 collection. iTunes iTunes is one of those software that almost everyone has on their computer – either because they own an iPod or because, well, they like it. It is a resource hog, I’ll admit, but is also a very capable media player. What many people don’t know is that iTunes is also a very good software to convert a CD to MP3 format, and the process really couldn’t have been simpler...

A free downloadable application that suspiciously looks like an iPhone lying on its flank…that’s Dizzler . But the resemblance ends there because Dizzler is not a communication tool and the look is just the starting skin. It’s a desktop entertainment device. Or more simply let’s call it a media player. Just like the flavors of music, we have different flavors of playing them. From desktop apps to music streaming internet players, the choices are ours to pick. Sandwiched in between these two are players which are desktop entertainment interfaces but which search and source music online. Dizzler is one such app. Though Dizzler has a vanilla plain online player, it is the desktop app which might draw your eye. Playable on your desktop or your mobile, Dizzler is a desktop entertainment hub. The software lets you search the web for free music, videos, games, and radio stations and then plays them through its media player. Just to remove any confusion – the Dizzler Media Player does...