Convert videos for ipod , ipad and other devices

Wanna have video content for the iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV or other devices?One option is

The iTunes Store, But if you have already got a vast collection of DVDs, home movies, and other video files then spending money on itunes is just useless. With the help of some free or low-cost software, you can convert these videos into compatible files that you can enjoy anywhere.

One such software is Handbrake.

HandBrake is an open-source program designed to convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into an MPEG-4 video file in MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4) or Matroska (.mkv) containers. The program is used to convert DVDs into other forms so they can be viewed on iPods, iPhones and with the Mac QuickTime Player.



HandBrake lets you perform two-pass conversions and to codify a double soundtrack. Another great feature is the bitrate calculator, which alters the quality of the video according to the final file size you wish to achieve. You can even trim the black bands around a movie to maximise the size of the file.

Other features of Handbrake are it is not limited to DVDs, it accepts any type of video as a source. It offers total control over multiple audio tracks. It also offers a decomb filter, in the style of AviSynth's. HandBrake can also encode video using the Theora codec.

HandBrake is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Its a great opensoure software, you can download easily from anywhere.

Click here to download Handbrake

Portable Music player - Carry audio player in USB

USB Pen Drives are a great way to carry your files around, and that includes your favourite collections of audio files. But it's very diffcult and slso annoying to manage all audio and video files without favourite music player.

So here is one Audio media player for your USB Pen Drive that you can carry around along with your media collection. Its name is CoolPlayer+.



CoolPlayer+ Portable is an easy to use audio player which allows user to listen to his music wherever he go. It can be placed on USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD. You can use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Its a freeware utlity software, you can download it easily form internet.

Click here to Download

Delete Duplicate Tracks in Ipod

Does your ipod has dupliate track?? If your ipod has limited storage space then it seems to creae problem, for more free storage space you have to find duplicate track and have to delete them. This task can be done manually but its very time consuming and boring, so here are some steps
to find and delete duplicate tracks at once

Just follow these simple steps:

1). Select View and then Show Duplicates.
2). iTunes will display all tracks that share the same name, in alphabetical order.
3). Examine each of the duplicate tracks, and delete one or more instances as necessary.
But keep in mind that 2 traks with same need not to be same, may be they are same song from different artists, or from the same artist on different albums.

Its done.

Add or Change Album Art In Ipod

When you purchase a track from the iTunes Store, it automatically comes with the correct cover art for that track's album. And when you rip a track from a CD, iTunes accesses the iTunes Store to get the cover art for that track, too.

But sometimes iTunes doesn't get it right. Maybe it doesn't know which track you're ripping. Maybe the iTunes Store doesn't have cover art for that particular album. Or maybe iTunes doesn't guess right and downloads the wrong cover art for that particular track.

Whatever the reason, you're likely to end up with more than a few tracks in your iTunes library that don't have the right cover art. It also means that when you play that track on your iPod, the cover art will be wrong or missing.

so, there are a few different ways to add or change the cover art for tracks in your iTunes library.

Here are steps to display the Artwork pane in the iTunes software, just follow these steps:

1). Go to View and then Show Artwork.

2). Now select the track with the missing cover art.

3). Find the cover art on another website, for this you can use amazon.com or can search on google images.

4). Use your mouse to drag and drop the artwork from that website into the artwork pane.

Its done.

The iTunes software then adds that artwork to the selected track.

Copy songs from ipod to computer

Mostly ipod users faces the need of getting the content of their ipod back to computer, so heres the way to transfer or copy songs from ipod to computer without using any software. Just follow these simple steps:



1). Connect the iPod to your computer. If iTunes starts syncing your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display(to the left of the search box) to stop it.


2). In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.


3). Navigate to the Music folder.



4). Now select music folders, and copy them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

Its done..