YouTube music coming soon to Songler

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Published on Sunday, 14 March 2010 20:54
Written by Martin Millmore
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All you music fans out there obviously love the high quality audio streams in Songler from Last.fm and Spotify. Sometimes though it's nice to get the video too, so a new version of Songler is coming soon which integrates with YouTube for music videos too. When you search for a band, you will get the option to search YouTube for music with the name of the artist, bringing a selection of their videos.

Update: Now available here.

 

 

Announcing GoogleReader

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Published on Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:56
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Google have produced a 10 foot interface for Google Reader, called Google Reader Player. Nice.

 

Of course the ideal place to make use of a 10 foot google reader interface is in Media Center, so GoogleReader MCE is a simple app to launch Google Reader Player from within Media Center. 

Accessibility improvements in TunerFreeMCE

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Published on Sunday, 07 March 2010 23:00
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One area that often gets overlooked in media center development is accessibility - i.e. making the software easier to see, hear and use especially for people who have limited sight or hearing. I'm pleased to announce that TunerFreeMCE has been enhanced to rectify. TunerFreeMCE 3.6.0 now has significantly improved screen reader compatibility, and adds the ability to enable both the BBC Sign Zone programs, and the BBC Audio Described programs, bringing TunerFreeMCE's easy to use interface for watching or listening to BBC programs to people with hearing or sight impairments. 

Songler will also get improved screen reader compatibility in the next release too, opening up the world of streaming music on your media center to visually impaired people.

TunerFreeMCE wins Best Free Application award

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Published on Friday, 12 February 2010 19:54
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I'm really pleased to find you that TunerFreeMCE has won an award for Best free Windows Media Center application over at The Digital Lifestyle.com. In fact it didn't just win, it romped home with 68% of the vote. You can listen to the awards show with Ian Dixon and Mike Garcen here. It's the last category to be announced, 43 minutes in to the podcast. 
 
There is no way TunerFreeMCE would be so good without all of you users who have given feedback, and all of the kind people who have given encouragement by donating, and the plugin developers who have worked so hard to bring even more content to the application. A big thank you to all of you out there.
 
Martin 

Songler adds new search capabilities

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Published on Sunday, 31 January 2010 10:09
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Songler has been updated to allow searching for music in many more ways. First of all, you can now search for Spotify tracks by Artist, Album or Track name (this is only applicable to Spotify, since last.fm can't play individual albums or tracks). Just enter your search and click on one of the icons to search the different categories.

Secondly, Songler now integrates with your Windows Media Center music library. Just browse to something you like in Windows Media Center and press the (i) button on your remote, and select the More... option. Then choose Songler, and it will search for that artist for you.

Download version 1.2 here for these great new features. 

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