Download & Try the GOM Audio Player

Download GOM Audio Player

admin Published on Jan 6th, 2015

There is absolutely no dearth of good music players for Windows operating system. Free players such as Foobar2000, PotPlayer, and MusicBee all offer good music experience. Although Winamp, once the popular player, is no longer under development, it’s still available for download.
Those of you who don’t mind installing a new media player should try out GOM Audio Player. The GOM Audio Player is from Gretech, the company behind well-known GOM Media Player.
Although it may not be as powerful as PotPlayer or Foobar2000, it does come with some awesome features that might not be available in other popular players.

GOM Audio Player features

As with the case of other players, GOM Audio Player also supports all popular audio codecs, including WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, and PLS.
What sets GOM Audio Player apart from other audio players is its elegant interface, probably the most beautiful interface when compared to other popular audio players.




When it comes to features, it allows you listen to several popular internet radio stations. More importantly, it is capable of playing streams of live broadcasts that are hosted online.
Since a good player should include an equalizer, there is an equalizer, and then there are several audio effects to choose from.
Another interesting and useful feature is Power Options. When enabled, GOM Audio Player will automatically sleep, restart or shutdown your PC when your playlist reaches the end or at a certain time, allowing you to fall asleep listening to your favorite music.




Although it can be controlled with the help of dedicated keyboard shortcuts, GOM Audio Player automatically adds playback controls to the taskbar (remember Windows Media Player taskbar toolbar?) while running in Mini mode. To add playback controls to the taskbar, right-click on the empty area of taskbar, click Toolbars, and then select GOM Audio MiniPlayer. If the option is not appearing, open GOM Audio Preferences, under General tab, check the option labelled Lock to taskbar when minimized (MiniPlayer).





If you would like to see a popup notification on desktop when the player starts playing an audio file, you can enable the same by navigating to Preferences, Titles, and then checking Enable Desktop Tiles. This feature is pretty much like the toast notification of Winamp.





GOM Audio Player is allows you edit ID3 tags, change playback speed, and also offers A-B repeat. Unlike some other audio players, GOM Audio Player supports plugins and users can utilize this feature to add new capabilities to the player.





For those who aren’t happy with its default look, the default skin has three default modes and you can always use tens of cool skins available on the official website of the player. You can also enable transparency effect for the player and adjust the opacity level under Preferences.
Overall, GOM Audio Player is a nice audio player for Windows with useful set of features. The current version of the player is absolutely free and comes with no strings attached.

You can download it here: http://www.gomlab.com/eng/


Source: http://www.intowindows.com/download-gom-audio-player/

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How To Add Files To Bootable ISO In Windows

Updated on Sep 15th, 2014

Earlier last week, we discussed about a fantastic online tool to generate and download unattend.xml file that we use while performing unattended or silent Windows 7/8/9 installation. The tool also lets you generate Config.xml file required to perform unattended Microsoft Office installation.
After generating and downloading the unattend.xml file, I had to add the XML file in the bootable Windows 7 ISO file and test the same using a virtual machine before writing about the handy tool.

As you likely know, editing a bootable Windows ISO isn’t a very straight-forward procedure if you don’t want to shell out a premium for paid applications. While there are dozens of free software around to create, burn and mount ISO files, a quick web search reveals that there is not even a single free program for Windows to edit bootable ISO files.
Those of you who want to add files to bootable Windows ISO files without purchasing a premium software can follow the given below instructions to edit your bootable ISO file. Since we don’t have a free program to directly edit the bootable ISO image file to add files, we need to first extract the ISO file, add files and then create a bootable ISO image again using a free application called ImgBurn.

Include files in bootable ISO image

Following are the steps that you need to follow in order to edit a bootable ISO to add files in Windows.
Step 1: If you haven’t installed a file archiving program, please visit this page to download 7-Zip (free) and install the same. If you’re using any other file compression tool such as WinRAR or WinZip, you don’t need to install 7-Zip.
Step 2: Navigate to the location where your bootable ISO file is located, right-click on it, click 7-Zip, click Extract files and then select a new folder in your preferred location to save contents of the ISO file. If you’re using WinRAR or WinZip, simply right-click on the ISO file to see Extract option.



Step 3: Once the contents of the ISO have been extracted, simply copy the file(s) that you would like to include in the ISO file.



Step 4: Now, we need to create a bootable ISO file out of those extracted files. In order to do so, we need to download and install another free program called ImgBurn.
Visit this page to download ImgBurn (free) and then run the setup file to install the same.
Step 5: Launch ImgBurn, click Create image file from files/folders option.



Step 6: Switch to the Advanced tab (see picture). Click on the Bootable Disc tab that appears when you click on the Advanced tab.



Step 7: Next, click on the small browse icon that appears next to the Source box and browse to the new folder containing the contents of your extracted ISO file plus the newly added files.
Once done, select a location to save the bootable ISO file that you’re going to build in a couple of minutes. To do so, simply click the browse icon next to the Destination box and then browse to the location where you want to save the ISO and then enter a name for the new ISO file.
Step 8: Under Bootable Disc tab, select the option labelled Make Image Bootable, select Emulation type as None (Custom), and then type 8 in the box next to Sectors To Load. If in case, you’re working on Vista ISO, please enter 4.



Step 9: Finally, click the small browse icon that appears next to Boot Image box and browse to the Boot folder located in the newly created folder where you have saved extracted ISO file contents. Select the file labelled etfsboot.com file and then click Open button.



Step 10: Click Build button to start the process of building your bootable ISO image file. Click Yes or OK when you see the following three dialog boxes to continue building the ISO file.





That’s it!

Source: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-add-files-to-bootable-iso-in-windows/

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Nero Kwik Media & Nero 9 free burning software

Nero Kwik Media and Nero Kwik Burn free burning software

Once a very popular burning software, Nero saw users abandoning it after it became a bit of a bloatware. However Nero BurnLite free has now been released as Nero Kwik Burn Free, which promises to be faster and better. So those of you still use Nero 10 or Nero 9 may want to check it out.

Nero Kwik Burn Free

Nero Kwik Burn will give you the same features of Nero BurnLite 10 plus more from your burning, ripping and copying activities.

Nero Kwik Burn will let you:

• Burn photos, music, videos and data onto CD, DVD and Blu-ray Discs
• Copy unprotected CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs
• Rip MP3 files for sharing and storing

It will now even let you drag and drop files to copy iTunes playlists.
Nero Kwik Burn is a 174 MB download! After you start its installation, it will ask you to install few more programs.

During installation it will also present with you pre-checked options to install the Ask Toolbar, etc. Make sure you un-check them.

Nero Kwik Media

If you are looking for more, you can check out Nero Kwik Media. It is a free media manager which lets you manage your photos, music, images and videos. It lets you find, organize, edit, play, share, sync, burn and enjoy your media with the built-in market that lets you buy and activate the apps you want.

Nero Kwik Burn is included when you download Nero Kwik Media free, so you don’t have to download them both.

Download: Nero Kwik Burn free | Nero Kwik Media free.
Nero BackItUp, Nero BurnLite and Nero DiscSpeed are some free software from Nero.

Any of you using Nero? Would you like to share your experience? Or perhaps some of you use some other burning software? Would you like to make recommendations on some good free burning software for Windows?

You can get it here:
http://www.techradar.com/downloads/nero-kwik-media

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• Nero 10 Free Download
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Nero 9 Free Download

Nero has released their free version of Nero BurnLite 9 data burning software and is now available for download. This version contains simply data burning and disc copying features for CDs and DVDs.

Updated link:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Nero-Free.shtml

UPDATE: Check out latest Nero Kwik Burn Free instead.


Updated link:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Nero-Free.shtml

Nero BurnLite 10 supports the following for burning:

• CD-R
• CD-RW
• DVD±R
• DVD±RW
• DVD-RAM
• DVD±R DL

Nero BurnLite 10 supports these disc formats:

• Data CD (ISO, UDF, ISO/UDF)
• Data DVD (ISO, UDF, ISO/UDF)

Download Page : Nero BurnLite 9 . (Link changed)
It s 31 MB  download!

UPDATE 1 : It appears that this version 10 installs Ask toolbar without the users consent, And that is something we disapprove of! We therefore suggest you download v 9 instead, or try other freeware burning software. Download page link changed. Thanks acr!

UPDATE 2: You can still install Nero 10 Free version without Ask Toolbar – Posted by TWCF member venkat.

Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/nero-10-free-version-released

You can also get the Nero ROM Classic here:

http://www.techradar.com/downloads/nero-burning-rom-classic

You can get Nero Kwik Media here:

http://www.techradar.com/downloads/nero-kwik-media

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Best Free Burning Software: Top Programs for Copying, Ripping, and Burning

Keep your MP3s and other media files safe by backing up to disc.

By Mark Harri

Even though software media players such as iTunes, Winamp, and Windows Media Player are able to burn music to CD, you will have probably discovered that most are very limited on what they can do. Using a dedicated burning program gives you the flexibility to burn music, video, and other types of files to CD, DVD, and even Blu-ray; this can open up a lot more possibilities on the way you use and store your digital media. The software listed below has been selected specifically for its usefulness and ease-of-use when dealing with digital media.

1. CDBurnerXP Pro 4

CDBurnerXP has very good support for burning to several types of optical media discs including: DVD, CD, and Blur-ray. You can burn music to CD as either an audio CD, or a data CD (MP3, AAC, OGG, etc.). If can be installed on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 and offers a user-friendly interface. You can create audio CDs using MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and WAV files. A neat feature of CDBurnerXP is the facility to directly add tracks to your compilation from audio CDs without having to rip the tracks first. Finally, this free burning software program also comes with a convenient integrated audio player in order to play your music.

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2. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free

Even though Burning Studio Free only supports MP3 and WMA formats, it more than makes up for this shortfall by its sizable feature set. This free burning program supports CD, DVD, and Blu-ray drives giving you flexible storage options. It’s intuitive interface gives you access to tasks such as ripping and burning audio/data CDs, backup files and folders, burn movies, create ISO/BIN images, and a copier for duplicating CDs,DVDs, and Blu-ray discs.

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3. BurnAware Free

Available for the Windows operating systems (7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT), BurnAware Free is an optical disc authoring program that supports CD, DVD, and Blu-ray -- it can handle a wide array of audio formats too. This light-weight, but functional program supports MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC, WAV, OGG, and M4a. If you've got files in the ISO format, then this program also supports disk image burning to DVD, CD, etc. The program is also capable of creating video DVDs which can then be played on a standard DVD player or games console (Xbox 360, PS3, etc.)for example.

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4. FinalBurner Free

FinalBurner Free enables you to create data/audio CDs, video DVDs, and make ISO images. There’s also a built-in CD ripper that is capable of encoding MP3 and WMA files in varying bitrates. FinalBurner has good file format support when creating audio CDs. You can import MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, along with less popular formats like MID, and music modules (XM, MOD) that are used in music sequencers (trackers). As with all the burning programs in this article, FinalBurner has enough options to be a good substitute for expensive products such as Nero, etc.

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5. Free Audio CD Burner

If you just want a simple program to create audio CDs then you won’t go far wrong with Free Audio CD Burner. Even though it only supports the writing of CDs, it can decode MP3 and WMA files in realtime, thus saving time and hard drive space.

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6. ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:

• Read - Read a disc to an image file
• Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
• Write - Write an image file to a disc
• Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
• Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

Suggested Reading

• Top 5 Free Software Media Players
• pyro Audio Creator Review: An Audio Toolbox
• 3 Software Programs to Organizing Your Music Collection

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  Source: http://mp3.about.com/od/essentialsoftware/tp/Best_Free_Burning_software.htm

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6 Free Alternatives To Nero DVD/CD Burning Software

Everyone is aware of Nero, the most wanted burning software. Even I have used Nero for almost two years before jumping to the free alternatives that do the same job for free of cost. The reason behind the jump was not the cost of Nero but its size. As you might have observed, every time Nero releases new version with added features that are useless for most us.

How many of use all the features of Nero 7 or 8 or 9? That is, do you use the multimedia and backup feature of Nero 9? If your answer is a big “NO” you can use any of the below freeware as an alternative to Nero.

1. Infra Recorder: Probably one of the most used free burning software after CD Burner XP. You can create data, audio CDs easily just like Nero. Infra Recorder also supports dual-layer DVDs. Users can erase discs, burn images, copy discs, burn multisession discs, save audio and data tracks to files using Infra Recorder. Moreover, the installer size is just 3.2MB!!

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2. CDBurnerXP: CDBurnerXP is a good freeware alternative to paid CD and DVD burners. This is the software which made me to jump from Paid Nero. Apart from basic disc burning features this freeware also supports Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. Below is a small list of CDBurnerXP key features:
* burn all kinds of discs
* audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
* burn and create ISO files
* data verification after burning process
* create bootable discs
* multi-language interface
* bin/nrg ? ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
* Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

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3. DeepBurner: There are two versions of DeepBurner program available: Pro and free. I have been using this free burner for the last six months without any hassles. This program has many features that you can’t see in a free burner. To start with, it supports data CDs/DVDs, Audio CDs, build and burn images, overburn function, bootable discs, multisession discs. DeepBurner also supports CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD+R / DVD-RW / DVD+RW / DVD-RAM. You can also find a big feature list here.

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4. FinalBurner : Final burner is also one of the free alternatives to bloated Nero. The user interface is simple and is easy-to-use as well.
Main features:
Burn Data CD/DVD (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.)
- Autorun menu designer
- Burn Audio CD (Import *.wav; *.mp3; *.ogg; *.mid; *.wma; *.aac; *.mp4; *.m4a; *.xm; *.mod; *.s3m; *.it; *.mtm; *.mo3 audio files.)
- Burn Video DVD (Import AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, FLV, etc. Capture from Web cam, TV tuner, DV, etc.)
- AudioCd Ripper

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5. ImgBurn: Don’t think this tool is just for image burring. ImgBurn is lightweight CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray burning software that creates Audio CDs, DVD Videos discs, HD DVD videos discs. The biggest strength of this program is that it supports a wide range is images file formats including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It also supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn’t run in to any problems if you’re using an international character set.

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6. CDrtfe: CDrtfe is another free burning program for Windows. CDrtfe can burn data discs (CD and DVD), Audio CDs, XCDs, (S) VCDs and DVD-Video discs. For Windows 9x, ME, 2k, XP.

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I have listed the software which I have found a good alternative to Nero. If you have come across any good freeware burner let me know by leaving a comment so that I can include them in the next list.

Source: http://www.intowindows.com/6-free-alternatives-to-nero/

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