A couple of weeks ago I was given an invitation token to a new streaming service much similar to Spotify. This new service with the project name WIMP is also based on the same technical setup as Spotify, coded in AIR. The main difference however is that where Spotify will remain free, you need to pay to use WIMP. Why? They do not believe in a comercial based income model. Fair enough. My first impression when loading the client is that...

Its been years since I needed to rip any CDs, though recently I needed to rip a CD from one of my bands since we wanted to offer a few of the songs for sample downloads. So I went online and stumbled around to see what would be a good tool to do just that. Then I found FreeRip, and I must say – these tools have come a long way since I last tested one. Within minutes I had ripped the songs I needed, and that without any problems at...

Earlier today we heard about the coming of MP3HD, in my eyes a great announcement even though one can wonder why people don’t put more effort into FLAC. Afterall, MP3 is not free while FLAC is. Anyhow; for those of you whom don’t know what MP3HD is; it’s a lossless audio codec that has backward compatibility and have bitrates ranging from 500 to 900 kbps. It’s possible that you yourself can go test it out as the...