In Depth: 10 best free music players: the top Windows music apps around

Although Windows Media Player has been reinvented numerous times, it's still a frustrating app to use. And in Windows 8, the basic music player just doesn't have enough features to keep us tuned.

So we thought it would be a great idea to round up the best of the rest - the greatest alternatives for music playing and editing on your PC. Here's the list.

1. Get sorted with iTunes

It might be an Apple product, but we'd be remiss to not talk about iTunes. It does it all: it's a music player, a media browser and organiser, and a tool to help set up your iPod, iPhone and iPad.

The iTunes Store helps you to discover and buy new music, too. The latest version has a new stripped-down look, with a simpler, cleaner interface. Most of the key playback options can be controlled from the Mini Player, creating and managing playlists is easier than before, and the store works more like it does on iPhones and iPads, which makes a lot of sense.

iTunes is all about Apple devices of course, and it does its best to get you into the store (you can't get album art until you're logged into an account, for instance).

2. Move it with Musiczen

If your music folder has got into a real mess, with MP3s scattered everywhere, then getting them properly organised can seem like a real challenge - until you run MusicZen. Point the program at your chaotic folder and it will scan all your MP3s automatically, reading their tags, then copying (or moving) them to new folders based on the artist, album, song title and more.

The program is incredibly simple, so you'll have your MP3s reordered in no time. If you've been amassing a collection of tunes over the years, MusicZen is essential.

3. Find songs on YouTube

There are plenty of YouTube search tools around, but MP3jam is a little different from most; instead of helping you access videos more easily, this program is all about music. Just enter a search term - an artist, song name or album title - and it'll quickly return any results, some of which even have album art.

Considering how many artists are forthcoming about uploading their newest tracks to Youtube these days (and considering the number of exclusive remixes you'll find on there), this is invaluable. Each song title has a 'Play' button, allowing you to stream it from the web.

4. The classic player

With 16 years of development under its belt, it's no surprise that Winamp - which can only be described as a classic in software terms - is one of the most capable music players around. The program supports more than 60 audio and video formats.

It can quickly scan your PC for audio files (or import your iTunes library), then organise your music in many different ways. You can create playlists, update and edit your MP3 tags, read more about your favourite artists, and access thousands of free audio and video channels.

5. Import and organise

iTunes is a great choice if you want to work with iOS devices, but if you have an Android phone or tablet - or you're just looking for a better way to organise your ever-expanding music collection - then it could be time to give MediaMonkey a try instead.

The program quickly imports even the largest music libraries, and can then automatically rename your MP3s, moving them into a logical folder structure, fixing tags and notifying you of any duplicates.

There are lots of playlist options, and the core player offers lots of features and can be extended with a huge range of effects. If you want to share your music, it's easy to sync with Apple or Android (and other) devices, or UPnP/DNLA compatible devices such as TVs, Blu-ray players and more.

6. Rename your tracks

Advanced Renamer is a powerful tool for renaming, copying or moving files. If your MP3 library is a mess, then it can give your files new names based on audio tags, change the case of a file name, add or remove text, change a file's attributes or timestamps, and even copy or move MP3s to new locations based on their tags (a specific folder for that artist or album, for example). It's one of the most useful tools if you're serious about keeping your music collection in check.

7. Keep it simple

If other MP3 organisers and players seem too bulky and complicated, you might prefer Foobar2000. Just like other music management tools, this program helps you build and organise your music library, create playlists and sort out your tags. The interface is very configurable, and its excellent music player supports lots of formats, gapless playback, gain to level out volume across tracks and more.

Despite all this, Foobar2000 requires only 7MB of hard drive space, and can even be installed in 'portable' mode, so it won't touch your Registry or install any extra components that might clutter your hard drive. It also has a refreshingly simple interface.

8. Quick conversion

Just as its name suggests, Freemake Audio Converter is an excellent tool for converting audio files into a more useful format. If you have a portable music player or smartphone that can't play some of your tunes, Freemake could well be the answer to your musical prayers.

Freemake includes support for writing most formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A and OGG files. Various audio settings (bitrate, sample rate, channels) are there to help you get the best compromise between sound quality and file size, so you can even use it to shrink your files down to fit onto a smaller player.

9. Record and edit

Audacity is a capable and feature-packed audio editor, but is still relatively straightforward to use. Import an MP3 file and you'll see the usual waveform-type display. It's easy to zoom in and select the area you need, and then you can cut or delete it, or perhaps copy or paste it elsewhere.

If you need more power, the Effects menu reveals 40 options, including change pitch, equalisation, normalise and more. It's great for making your own music or podcasts.

10. Play almost anything

If you're looking for a player that's simple and easy to use, but also has some power when you need it, then why not grab a copy of VLC Media Player. You can use the program as a very simple on-demand player. Select one MP3 or an entire album and it'll begin playing, and you can reduce the interface to just a single toolbar and some album art, allowing you to enjoy your music without cluttering your desktop and distracting you.

Despite its simplicity, the program works with just about every media type, including MP3 files, video, CDs and more. There's simple media library management, playlist creation and tag editing. Its graphic equaliser, compressor and spatialiser help deliver great sound, the interface is extremely configurable, and plug-ins add more power when you really need it. What more could you want?

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Weinstein in early talks with Miramax over possible deal - WSJ

REUTERS - The Weinstein Co has held preliminary talks with Miramax Co about a possible deal that could create one of the most powerful independent film players, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

A deal would reunite Weinstein brothers - Harvey and Bob - with Miramax, a company they founded and later sold to Walt Disney Co , which owned Miramax Films until 2010.

Quoting an unnamed source, the paper said talks began several weeks ago with a meeting between Weinstein Co Chief Executive Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Chairman Tom Barrack.

Barrack confirmed the meeting in an email to the paper, but declined to confirm a potential merger. News of the merger talks was first reported by Variety.

The Weinstein brothers left Miramax in 2005 after a contentious relationship with Disney and that year founded the Weinstein Company, best known for its low-budget, critically acclaimed movies, such as Oscar-winner "The King's Speech" in 2010.

Disney sold Miramax to Filmyard Holdings LLC, which is backed by Barrack's private-equity firm, Colony Capital LLC, and the Qatari Investment Authority.

(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Sandra Maler and Gunna Dickson)

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Cranbrook Community Care-A-Van launching

This Friday, August 9, area residents are invited to the official unveiling of the Cranbrook Dodge Community CARE-A-VAN.

The vehicle, a brand new 2013 Grand Caravan, is being offered up by the dealership to groups around the city who need a little help with transportation.

?Dave Girling is always looking to give back to the community,? said? Steve Mercandelli, general sales manager at? Cranbrook Dodge. ?We?ve heard that there is a transportation problem for some charities, non-profit groups and some individuals, so we talked about how we can help.?

Mercandelli explained that the dealership noticed at their last Christmas party that they had to provide rides to some of the children attending. With other groups such as non-profit sports teams, sick kids who need to go to the Calgary hospital but don?t have a ride and charities requiring transportation, they realized there was a community need.

It is important to note that this vehicle is not intended to be a taxi, but instead a means of transportation for those who truly require it. Full information packages will be available to anyone who comes down to the launch this Friday, at the Cranbrook Dodge dealership from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Astronomers discovery a graveyard for comets

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Astronomers have discovered a graveyard of comets. The researchers describe how some of these objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life leading them to name the group the ?Lazarus comets?.

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Born inside a N. Korean prison camp, this man escaped ? and survived

The North Korean military has put on a lavish display to mark the anniversary of the armistice which ended the Korean War. But despite the truce nearly 60 years ago, North Korea is still seen as a volatile nation. It has been condemned by other countries for its nuclear testing programme and its record of human rights violations ? in particular its use of brutal prison camps. One man who knows all about the country's abuse of human rights is Shin Dong-hyuk ? the only man born inside a North Korean prison camp who managed to escape. His story has been documented in a book 'Escape from Camp 14' by journalist Blaine Harden. Here the author offers Yahoo! News a startling picture of what life is like in notoriously secretive North Korea.

A naked Shin was hung from the ceiling by his arms and legs, his body in the shape of a U. Just a boy at the time, he was lowered by a winch towards a tub of burning charcoal. Crazed with pain, he smelled his burning flesh. A guard then pierced his stomach with a hook on a pole and held him over the fire until he lost consciousness. This was just one instance of the brutal torture Shin experienced and witnessed at Camp 14 ? one of North Korea?s inhumane prison camps.

American Journalist Blaine Harden spent years trying to gain the trust of Shin, now in his late 20s, so that his story could be told. He tells us: "The purpose of writing the book is to grab people by the throat and explain how North Korea operates and Shin?s story does that so well because no one has told it before."

Shin is the only person to be born in a prison camp who has escaped and lived to tell the tale.

His only crime? Being related to his father?s brothers who escaped to South Korea after the Korean War in the 1950s. There are people like Shin who were born in the camps and never allowed to leave and others, considered defectors, who are either there for ?rehabilitation? - or more likely until they die.

Harden says: "They can arrest anybody they want, for any reason, without any charge and take them away in the middle of the night and never tell them why they were taken."

The camps have been around since the late 1950s and Harden says they have always operated in almost exactly the same way. He says: "There is an incredible culture of brutality. Working people to death, usually by the time they?re in their mid-40s, they have executions, guards who are at liberty to murder, rape and torment the prisoners without any sanctions against them. They are taught to regard the prisoners as pigs and dogs. They can rape them, impregnate them, kill the babies and kill the women. They can also beat children to death if they?re in the mood."

A total of 60 former camp inmates have told their stories to human rights investigators. Harden explains how those interviews, carried out separately across a decade, tell a remarkably consistent story about how the camps operate, what life is like, who lives, who dies, why and how.

Shin was starved, beaten and raised as a slave in a culture of disclosure and reward. He reported his mother and brother for plotting an escape which ultimately led to their execution.

Harden says: "How Shin was raised in the camp is an example of the sort of mentality that is spread across the country. There are about 170,000 secret police in North Korea. They are in virtually every apartment block, every village. They are there to incentivise people to snitch on each other. And children, relatives and friends do snitch on each other."

An estimated 200,000 people are detained in prison camps and there are fears the camps are growing. Satellite images show the existence of the camps, yet North Korea still denies their presence to the rest of the world.

But people in North Korea know the camps exist. "They know that every once in a while people disappear into the night ? an entire family," says Harden. "And they know if they speak out there?s a chance that they could join them."

North Korean female soldiers on parade in Pyongyang (Reuters)

People may be scared into silence but they are armed with more knowledge. Despite its extravagant ceremonial parades and military displays, North Korea is poor. Times are hard and although the Kim family rulers have tried to isolate the notoriously secretive country from the rest of the globe, censoring media, preventing access to the internet and effectively starving the populace of information, knowledge about the wealth and freedoms in the outside world has seeped through into this totalitarian state.?

More electronic products such as DVDs, radios and USB sticks are crossing the border illegally, primarily from China, and the number of radios that can tune into outside radio stations has increased. A recent survey of all defectors who have fled the country revealed that while in North Korea, 60 per cent were able to listen to outside radio stations on a daily basis.

Harden says: "They know more about the outside world but their ability to act on it and interact with each other based on the new information they have is not changing very much at all. There?s no civil society inside North Korea. People do not get together. They cannot meet in more than groups of three or four anywhere and people cannot travel easily within the country so they are socially and politically atomised."

Harden believes that life may have actually got worse under new leader Kim Jong-Un, who was declared the 'Supreme Leader' of North Korea at the end of 2011 following the death of his father.

He says: "It seems to have gone backwards in some ways. The border has been effectively closed down, people are not crossing or fleeing the country. The number of defectors arriving in South Korea has been cut significantly in the past year. Kim Jong-Un recognised that having this porous border was allowing people to go off and tell stories to human rights people and he wanted to end it. The Government has lost none of its appetite for cruelty."

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Propaganda is also used incessantly and it is extremely powerful. Pictures of the ?great? and ?dear? leader Kim Jong-Un are everywhere and the state owned Central News Agency is the sole news provider in the country, ensuring the publication and broadcast of specific messages, including verbal attacks on America and South Korea.

Harden says: "They teach people that the US in particular, South Korea and Japan are plotting to murder them, to bomb them to kill their children - and there are some good reasons for North Koreans to believe it. During the Korean War the Americans bombed North Korea. They destroyed virtually every city, town and village, including about 85 per cent of the structures.?

Harden states that every single person in the country had a relative killed in the war. "That is sold and resold in the state propaganda about why you need the Kim family to protect you."

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Shin was not subject to the propaganda. There was no use for propaganda for the prisoners born in the camps. They have no choices. They are put to work, then they die. For the rest of the population though it's a highly effective method of control.

Despite all this, Harden is optimistic change will occur in North Korea. The UN has authorised a human rights investigation into the camps, amid denials from the country's UN ambassador Sin Son-ho, who recently asserted 'we don't have any human rights problems'.

Harden says: "They are surrounded by a booming China and an absolutely amazing South Korea which is one of the fastest growing economies, one of the most wired places in the world and Japan. They?re getting poorer and their options are fewer. As more information seeps into the country, the contradictions become sharper, so change has to happen."

Shin is one of many who dares to hope he is right.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/inside-north-korea-s-brutal-prison-camps-171717380.html

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BrewBit: the remote temperature monitor for homemade barley pop

Temperature is everything when it comes to fermenting beer. Thanks to a surprise heatwave, our last batch of homebrew went from lager to ale to horrible once we could finally taste it. If the BrewBit Model-T reaches its $80,000 Kickstarter goal, Inebriated Innovations could have the solution to hobby brewers' wort woes come next March. Each black box has dual power outlets as well as two temperature probes, allowing for independent control of heating and cooling. If you're so inclined, the open-source software and hardware means that you'll have an easier time hacking it to suit your needs. As of now, the company is just over halfway to its funding target, with 15 days to go. The early backer donations have already been claimed, but you still have a couple of weeks to snag either the single probe ($160) or dual probe ($175) model. We recommend you save the waiting for your suds' aging period.

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ETF Chart of the Day: Real Estate Investment Trusts - ETF Trends

U.S. Real Estate based ETFs have shown positive performance YTD despite some recent bloodletting in notable funds like VNQ (Vanguard REIT, Expense Ratio 0.10%) and IYR (iShares REIT, Expense Ratio 0.48%) but a number of International/Globally based REIT ETFs have simply not participated in a broad equity rally and have registered negative returns year to date.

These include funds such as the China centric TAO (Guggenheim China Real Estate, Expense Ratio 0.65%), which remains rather small in terms of size ($35 mln in AUM), DRW (WisdomTree Global ex-U.S. Real Estate, Expense Ratio 0.58%), IFAS (iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Asia, Expense Ratio 0.48%), and IFGL (iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate ex-U.S., Expense Ratio 0.48%), all of which are in the red year to date in terms of performance. [Play the Real Estate Recovery with ETFs]

IFGL is the largest of these funds by a longshot, amassing about $693 million in assets under management since its 2007 inception and averaging now more than 800,000 shares traded on an average daily basis. This fund in particular has significant exposure to REITs based in Asia as well as in Europe, with the following portfolio breakdown (Japan 26.42%, Europe 23.87%, Asia (Developed) 23.43%, Australia 13.39%, Canada 5.02%, and Asia (Emerging) 2.73%).

REIT funds were extremely popular in 2012 and up until about May of 2013 as portfolio managers were interested in earning competitively high yields for portfolios and having some equity exposure via these REIT stocks, both U.S. and internationally based, but beginning in early May of this year there has certainly been some selling pressure in the space bringing prices in related ETFs down sharply across the board. [Bernanke Testimony Could be Pivotal for REIT ETFs]

The volatility in the space has been out of the ordinary recently as well, as one can pull up a basic chart in any of the aforementioned products and see that it has been one wild ride from May of this year until where we are now on the first of August.

It will be interesting to see how this broad REIT space performs in the last few months of 2013 given the recent technical breakout in the broad based equity indices, and the willingness of managers to adopt higher beta names and thus more risk via sectors such as Technology for instance (note recent QQQ breakout for instance) in their portfolios.

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Sci-Fi studio calls New London home

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH)-- Some big-name video games, TV shows, and movies in the world of Sci-Fi are coming out of an animation company right here in Connecticut.

'Killer Minnow Studios' calls New London home.

Killer Minnow,? you may not know the name yet but you very well could know some of its creations.

Sci-Fi buffs may recognize the animation. It's LEGO's Galaxy Squad and it was developed by this New London trans-media production company.

"We all have kids ourselves so we get to still play at home at work, so yeah definitely we're big kids for sure," said Steve Lettieri, Killer Minnow.

Those big kids launched Killer Minnow in 2009. Their story lines, character development, and talent for animation landed them some big clients like LEGO.

And allowed them to create their own characters. Jek-14 is the first LEGO original 'Star Wars' character.

"He's sort of part good, part bad," said Lettieri.

One of their newest accomplishments is this developing their very own IPhone game. You can see it a little bit better on the big screen. It's called Rocket Runner and it's been out for just a couple of weeks.

And yes it's built around the character Jarma Queed who returns to his planet to save it.

"That's what we're really good creating a story, creating a universe and bringing it to life in some fashion," said Lettieri.

For a company conceived right before the recession, it has drawn its way past more than a few real life obstacles.

New London gives them affordable office space, a high tech hub close to home for these Connecticut boys.

"We're working with some really great globally know brands and for a little outfit out of New London, it's pretty exciting," said Lettieri.

Up next for Killer Minnow is a new Galaxy Squad installment on the Cartoon Network coming out in a couple of weeks and a behind the scenes story on them too.

Source: http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_london_cty/sci-fi-studio-calls-new-london-home

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FXX named telecast partner for 2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

By Tony Maglio

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Thursday that it has signed a three-year deal with the new FXX Network to broadcast the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which will be produced again by Spike Jones Jr.

"The Creative Arts Awards and Spike Jones, Jr. have become somewhat synonymous and we couldn't be happier to have him back as the producer of this year's awards," said Alan Perris, consultant to the Television Academy's Chairman, Bruce Rosenblum.

"It's not often enough in our business that the spotlight shines on the creative community working on camera and behind-the-scenes of our best and brightest television shows," said Chuck Saftler, president, Program Strategy, FX Networks.

The 2013 awards will be taped on Sunday, Sep. 15 to air on Saturday, Sep. 21 at 9 p.m.

"There have been a lot of changes in TV over the 19 years that I've been privileged to produce these awards," said producer Jones, Jr. "We've gone from 'Living Single' to 'Walking Dead'."

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Azusa High School wrestling coach accused of sending explicit messages to minor

AZUSA - The varsity wrestling coach for Azusa High School has been charged with allegedly sending explicit text messages to a minor, police said Tuesday.

Azusa police arrested 31-year-old Brent Monacelli of Azusa on July 20 on a warrant.

Sgt. Tim Harrington said the District Attorney's Office filed one felony count of contacting a minor with intent to conduct certain acts and a misdemeanor count of child annoying against Monacelli and issued a warrant for his arrest on July 15.

The investigation started May 4 when the minor told police about getting the messages, according to Harrington. He wouldn't say the age and gender of the minor or how the minor met the coach.

He said the victim isn't related to Monacelli.

Monacelli, who is out on bail, couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday night. The two phone numbers listed under his name in public records are no longer in service.

Officials with the DA's Office said Monacelli will be arraigned Oct. 4 at Pomona Superior Court.

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Video Games? Use Of Football Player Likenesses Not Protected As Free Speech

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) ? A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled today that video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. is not protected by the right of free speech against a lawsuit filed by college football players who are challenging the company?s use of their likenesses.

The Redwood City-based company had sought dismissal of the lawsuit, which is led by former quarterback Sam Keller and is pending in U.S. District Court in Oakland.

The company argued that its use of images in its NCAA Football series was protected by the First Amendment right of free expression.
But a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 vote that the game maker?s use of the likenesses is so realistic that it can?t argue it added creative or transformative elements that amount to First Amendment expression.

?EA?s use does not qualify for First Amendment protection as a matter of law because it literally recreates Keller in the very setting in which he has achieved renown,? Circuit Judge Jay Bybee wrote. The court majority noted that in the games, ?EA seeks to replicate each school?s entire team as accurately as possible,? including use of the same jersey number, height, weight, skin tone, hair color and home state for avatars representing football players.

EA spokesman John Reseburg said the company will appeal further. If not successfully appealed, the decision sends the case back to
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland for further proceedings on the players? claim that EA is infringing on their right of publicity, defined as the right to control the commercial use of their likenesses. Wilken has scheduled a Sept. 5 case management hearing on the lawsuit.

The suit was filed in 2009 by Keller, a former Arizona State University and University of Nebraska quarterback, and eight other former college basketball and football players. The appeals court ruled specifically on the use of Keller?s images, but said the same reasoning applies to the other players? claims.

The lawsuit seeks to be certified eventually as a class action on behalf of all former National College Athletic Association student athletes whose likenesses are being used.

Steve Berman, a Seattle lawyer representing Keller, said, ?The Court of Appeals confirmed that EA?s defense ? the First Amendment claim ? was fundamentally and fatally flawed.

?We expect that when we appear before the trial court again this fall, the defendants will have a very difficult time mounting a new defense for their blatant exploitation of student athletes,? Berman said.

In a second case that originated in federal court in Los Angeles, the same appeals panel unanimously upheld a trial judge?s dismissal of a trademark claim in a lawsuit filed against Electronic Arts by former professional football player Jim Brown.

The appeals court said Brown?s image was ?artistically relevant? to the company?s Madden NFL video game.

EA spokesman Reseburg said, ?We?re pleased with the outcome regarding Jim Brown?s likeness, but equally disappointed with the ruling against First Amendment protection in the Keller case.?

(Copyright 2013 by CBS San Francisco and Bay City News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Nite Ize Reflective Rope: Never Trip Over Tent Ties Again

Price: $11.99

The nighttime hazards of camping are enough to make anyone zip their tent tighter. But then again, your tent may also be the most serious danger you face if you're tripping over the ropes you've tied down. That's why we like Nite Ize reflective rope, 50 feet of sturdy nylon cord with a reflective strip woven right into it. Shine your flashlight on the rope and it reflects brightly, saving you a potential tumble and torn equipment. Use the 2.44-mm green cord when camping to secure your tent, hang bear bags, or tie up tarps or shelters. Or, get creative: Use it for moonlight boat rides, to tie your hammock, or fashion small lengths of it into lanyards for your knife or multi-tool for easier recovery if you drop them.

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