Orange Mood

Опросник по микроблогам и тлогам.

Всё, день просвещения настал. Начнём с небольшого опросника. Идём сюда - отвечаем на вопросы и параллельно развлекаемся .

Analysis and Conclusion.

Here is the last post devoted to breaking stereotypes in music players sphere. Thanks to everyone for voting for your favorite player and to my constant readers who have left inspiring comments. Special thanks to Xyanide for his post post on audio codecs and constant participation in the discussion.

For the past four weeks we have seen six players that can be a strong alternative to ubiqutious iTunes, WMP and Winamp. Not only do they have similar set of features, but usualy outrun big players. Based on the google trends analysis, Winamp has lost its positions on the market due to slow and non-innovative development. More or less normal library support with album art just came out this november, on the 10th anniversary of the player. On the other hand iTunes with Apple's deployment of iPod has won hearts of many music listeners. It's interesting to see how the marketing of hardware media player, has brought iTunes to the top in software industry. Miscrosoft's Zune on the contrary, has been a lame companion to the almighty WMP that ships with each and every operating system.

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@Max Tray Player - Extend Your Tray.

Today I'll talk about the last (I'm sure not least - will speak about those later) music player in the Media Players Comprehensive Guide series . The Tray Player is a very helpful solution for work and not very big music libraries, as it sits comfortably in the tray area and you don't have huge-all-screen windows that will let your boss know you are not working:).

As usually go and grab a copy of Tray Player. After installing this little thing, in your tray you'll see something like this:

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