Web Development

• AJAX-Style Uploader with Progress Indicator and Uploaded Files List (Joe Stagner)
• Basic ASP.NET SEO (Gunnar Peipman)
• To Cache, To Static, or To Session "When?" Is the Question (Jay Kimble)
• Two New Master Page Tutorials Published (Scott Mitchell)
• MVC Storefront Part 14: Ajax with Shawn Burke and SubSonic 3.0: IQueryable Update (Rob Conery)
• Anti-Spamability of .NET Engines (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• LINQ to SQL and the Web.Config ConnectionString Value (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• FxCop Now Ships with the Spell Checker Libraries and Reference Resolution Changes in Code Analysis and FxCop – Part 1 (David Kean)
• BackgroundWorker Closure and Overridable Task (Patrick Smacchia)
• .NET Memory Control : Use GCHandle to Pin Down the Objects (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Krypton – A Free WinForms Controls Toolkit and Traversing XML in .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 (Kim Hamilton)
• C# Empty Enumerator (Timm Webb)
• IronRuby at TechEd 2008 (John Lam)
• Build and Customize Your Own Isolated Shell (TechEd Chalk Talk) (Quan To)
• Bindable LINQ: Snapshot Enumerators (Paul Stovell)
• Zip Method Added to Dizzy (Justin Etheredge)
• Creating a Native Win32 Splash Screen (Bil Simser)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using the Shape Controls in Silverlight 2 Part 1 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight Cross Domain Services and a Helpful Tool and Telerik Drops Some Silverlight Control Goodies and Updated Silverlight Media Player Using Visual State Manager (Tim Heuer)
• Localizing a Silverlight Application and Support Configuration Specific Output Folders in a Silverlight Project (WebDevTools Team)
• Dynamic Languages in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• CSLA Light Object Serialization (Rocky Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Rating System for SharePoint Documents (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• SharePoint Best Practice (MS Press) (Chris O’Connor)
• Pomegranate (SharePoint) Exemplar Has Been Launched (Todd Snyder)
• Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 Site Structures Documentation. Version 0.2 (Maxime Bombardier)

Blogging / Social Networking

• Windows Live Writer Tweaks, Tips and Updates (Jared Goralnick)
• David Kean’s New Blog (David Kean)
• Resistance Is Futile, It’s FriendFeed FTW! (Sarah Perez)
• WordPress Podcast Wants Your Favorite WordPress Plugins (Lorelle VanFossen)

Miscellaneous

• Tonight I Hate the Web   (Mel Kirk) – There are some complete idiots on the web.
• .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey (Matthew Connelly)
• Book Review – C# in Depth (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Book Review: C# in Depth (Rhonda Tipton)
• PowerShell Eventing QuickStart (Lee Holmes)
• Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce… etc. (Leon Bambrick) – Link of the Day
• Moog’s First Guitar Features Infinite Sustain: So Go Out and Have a Bite (Sean Fallon)
• Help Decide Sandcastle’s Fate (Troy Goode)
• Make Zune Resume Your MP3 Audio Book Files When Replaying (Roy Osherove)
• New Subscriber Downloads User Interface (Chris Deluca)

Design / Methodology

• The Language of Mocks (or Is That Test Doubles) (Casey Charlton)
• The Dynamic Language Advantage: A Concrete Example (Russell Ball)

SQL Server

• SQL Server Express 2008: Now in Two Flavors (Dan Fernandez)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 10, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• LINKBLOG for June 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for June 11, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2008 — #296 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #112 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – June 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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Most, if not all, developers have a favorite media player. My tool of choice for audio files is MediaMonkey. I use it to listen to my MP3 music collection, Podcasts and Shoutcast streams. It is a powerful tool with advanced syncing, file organization and tagging functionality. The file formats supported out of the box include MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, MPC, WAV, CDA, M3U and PLS.

This is the first part of a 5-part review. Future posts will provide more detailed coverage of the following topics:

• Part 2: Podcasts
• Part 3: Streaming and Online Music Stores
• Part 4: File tagging and organization
• Part 5: Advanced Settings

The current version of MediaMonkey is v3.0.2. There Standard and Gold editions of the product. The standard edition is free, and the Gold edition costs less than $20. Here’s a breakdown of the features available in each version.

I found the extra features in the Gold edition to be worth the $19.95 price tag. Here’s a screen shot of the application with labels added for each part of the application.

One of the strengths of MediaMonkey is how well it handles large media libraries. It claims to handle libraries consisting of 50,000+ music files and playlists. I don’t have 50,000 MP3s but I do have a fairly large collection, most of which were ripped my CD collection, and MediaMonkey never breaks a sweat. I’ve tried managing my collection with other software, iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAmp to name a few. WMP didn’t perform nearly as well, and iTunes was even worse. WinAmp did perform admirably, but it doesn’t offer as rich a feature set.

Upcoming posts will dive deeper into those features. In Part 2, I will talk about managing and listening to Podcasts in MediaMonkey. Stay tuned…

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Check out the stellar review over at EverythingUSB.

Here’s the product page on iRiver America.

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