Tag: Windows Media Player

Spotify, a great music service gives users for free and instant access to 10 million songs by searching artists, songs name, albums. But there is no download button provided for users to get music off Spotify to their computer playlists on Winamp, Quick Time, line-in Real Player, Windows Media Player, etc or transfer music files to their iPod, iPhone, PSP and so on.

Do you want to get music off Spotify freely and easily? Streaming Audio Capture is the best program to get songs off Spotify by now. It has a virtual sound card which is available to detect sound signal and save music for you when you play Spotify songs on your computer. What you have heard will be grabbed exactly by Streaming Audio Capture quickly. So you dont have to be afraid of downloading viruses or other annoying noises to your PC. You can save music from Spotify with excellent 1:1 high quality.

Streaming Audio Capture is extremely powerful to get music from MySpace, YouTube, Grooveshark, Deezer, Pandora, Yahoo, imeem and so on or capture radio from the popular radio websites like BBC Radio, Pandora Radio, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, etc. Moreover, it is also available for us to get audio from the players of Winamp, Quick Time, line-in Real Player, Windows Media Player, Microphone, Skype, etc on our computers. That is to say you can capture all streaming audio that you play through your computer sound card with it.

How to get songs off Spotify with Streaming Audio Capture?

In order to get songs off Spotify, simply follow the following steps.

Download and Install Streaming Audio Capture

Step 1: Run it on your computer after installing it.

Step 2: You may choose the default Spotify music formats or change the formats of it as MP3, WMV, WAV, AC3, M4A, AAC, OGG, etc by click Settings button.

Step 3: Play music on Spotify until you can hear it.

Step 4: Click Record button when you need to begin to download Spotify music.

Step 5: Click Stop button after finishing playing Spotify songs.

Note: After downloading music to your computer, you can choose a file and split it into several small parts as you like manually. Streaming Audio Capture is able to split songs one by one automatically in the background if you set the stop time or record length at first. For example, if you play Spotify music for half an hour, you may download several songs one by one to your hard disk.

Compare Streaming Audio Capture with other well-known programs like Audacity, Limewire, Frost wire, it is considered as the best program to download music or audio from the internet. It is a program with multi-function so that users can download music freely and easily. More and more music lovers or radio fans would love to choose this program for their personal enjoyment.

Those of you aspiring to create and record your own music can now do it sitting at home. Music creation software packages allow you to create, record and edit music conveniently. Not just this, there are software packages that cater to different ages, from musically inclined kids to the more advanced music creating software for adults.

Morton Subotnick’s Making Music for beginners

This is an educational and fun music software for kids. Created by Morton Subotnick, an award winning composer, Making Music allows children to have an easy and enjoyable music composing experience. Designed to be kid-friendly, the software has ‘animal building blocks’ that allow children to create their own unique melodies. Rhythm and pitch can be modified by lining birds up on a wire, resembling music notes. The software also allows kids to select any of the sixteen instruments on the computer screen and listen to the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other fun and exciting games include testing kids musical sense by asking them to listen to two melodies and judging whether they are different or similar.

For aspiring musicians

With its popularity in Europe soaring, Music Maker from Magix allows aspiring musicians to create music even if they do not have prior knowledge of music composing. This music creating software allows users to choose from several thousand pre-created samples and loops from different musical instruments, digital music files and CDs. The samples, loops can be previewed, dragged and dropped on screen. The software allows users to create more than ninety different music tracks. Other important features of Music Maker include enhanced editing tools, a quality drum machine and a tuner that creates a complete choir from one recorded voice and also corrects recorded vocal samples automatically. The musical pieces can be exported to files and played on Windows Media Player.

Using Microsoft Songsmith, you can create songs by choosing appropriate music to accompany your vocals. You start by choosing a particular song style and setting a tempo. You will then have to sing the song into the microphone in tune with the percussive beat. Once you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, choose the chords and play the song again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.

DUBturbo is another quality music creating software using which you can create hip-hop, house, jungle and modern music pieces. Sonic Producer is also an impressive music composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.

Advanced music creating software

Cakewalk Music Creator Pro and Cubase are high-end, advanced music creation and editing software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They can be used with a computer keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based arranging as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some interesting features offered by Cubase.

Determine your musical needs before you buy music creation software. Research and compare different music software online to make an informed purchase decision.