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FLAC 1.21b

Just install it with the installer, is not a big deal, just "Next" and "Yes" to everything.

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Exact Audio Copy

This software allows you to extract music from your CD's in the exact same quality that you have in your physical CD. Below you'll find a basic configuration:

ATTENTION: before doing what is written below, please follow this link to configure the software for SECURE METHOD: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_Drive_Configuration

Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options.
Click the External Compression Tab, and put a tick in the box for use external program for compression.
Change Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
Change Use file extension to .flac if not already that.
Click the Browse button and locate the FLAC.exe that you already installed.
Remove the ticks from Use CRC check and Add ID3 tag.
Tick Check for external programs return code.
In the Additional command line options box, copy and paste the following string:

-T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -5 %s

Note: The bold portion (-5 at the end of the line) is where you would change the compression level or add settings for the FLAC encoder.

Do not worry what bit rate is shown in the bit rate drop down box; this will be ignored, as will the quality setting chosen below it.

Info taken from: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_FLAC


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Trader's Little Helper

This software will help you to:

Encoding of wav files to ape, flac, shn and mp3 format
Re-encoding of flac files
Decoding of ape, flac, mkw, shn, mp2 and mp3 files to wav format
Direct conversion of ape, flac, mkw and shn files to flac or mp3 format
Test of audio files encoded in ape, flac, shn and mkw format
Display of audio file properties (ape, flac, shn, mkw and wav files)
And many other things.

Is really simple to use, every option is clear, so you just have to know what you wanna do when you run this application.

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foobar2000

With this software you'll be able to listen to HQ music files!
All you need to do is: download it, copy the RAR content into the drive you have the "Program Files" directory (usually is "C:") and, if you want, create a direct access to have it wherever you want. The software has my settings, you can change them if you want.
Here's how this music player will look like:

Some hotkeys (all of them with CTRL pressed):
 Supr: Delete from playlist
-: Volume Down
+: Volume Up

O: Open files
S: Save playlist
1: Previous
2: Next
3: Play / Pause

Note: you can modify these settings anytime pressing the bottom-right button.



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jDownloader

This incredible software allows you to put in a download queue thousands of links! All you need to do is: install the software, update it (if necessary) and copy links from the internet. They will automatically added to a list, select whatever you want to download, right clic on one of the selected files and add them to your download queue.

Be sure to update your Java for this software to work.


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