Winamp Auto Tagger

You can open this dialog by selecting a few files from your Playlist or Media Library, right-lick and select “Auto-Tag” from the Send-To menu.

Take a look at this Article for more information.

Winamp Now Playing

First of all you can show information about your currently playing song straight from the Player: Open up your Winamp Media Library and navigate to ‘Now Playing’ in the left side pane. Then a site loads showing some essential stuff about the artist you are listening to. With a few clicks you can read the Biography or skim through their released Albums, including samples to listen to.
Moreover you can also search for an artist you like using the search field in the upper left corner of the site.

Winamp Music Online

If you don’t have Winamp running right now, you can also navigate to Winamp Music using a browser of your liking and start a search from there. This site also provides a cool Web Application to listen to your artist without the need of starting Winamp.

BrowserPro

Last but not least you also have the ability to use the BrowserPro widget of our ClassicPro Skinning engine to receive information about your currently playing song. ClassicPro 1.13 features the following services:

• SongBook Lyrics
• Discogs
• Explorer View
• Foxytunes
• Google Search
• Metalstorm Artist/Album Search
• Rate your Music
• Songfacts
• Swisscharts
• Wikipedia
• Yahoo! Search
• YouTube Video Search

For a long time the future of Stratovarius was unclear. But after ex-guitarist Timo Tolkki agreed that the remaining members can continue under the old name, the songwriting begun.

As consequence Timo Tolkki was replaced by Matias Kupiainen. But with Tolkki as long term member and guitarist/songwriter a person left who gave the band a face. So will the new album be different – maybe like Kotipelto’s solo project?
Well, indeed they have changed the band logo a bit and Lauri Porra took over most of the songwriting.

So when I plugged in the the new CD and listened to the first track ‘Deep Unknown’ I felt like “hm, this isn’t really what I’d like to expect for the new Stratovarius album”. Before you ask, yes, I’ve bought the CD without listening to samples first.
But the following track ‘Falling Star’, has won me already over – Stratovarius are back!
So let’s walk through the album track by track.
The next song ‘King Of Nothing’ is actually my favorite song. I like the choirs repeating the refrain – catchy and animating to sing along. ‘Blind’ sounds like a Stratovarius song from the old days and will rock when performed live.
The fifth track ‘Winter Skies’ is a true metal-ballad like you know them from their older albums. While listening to this song I thought, the next song should have some high speed keyboards from Jens. And I was right! ‘Forever Is Today’ and ‘Higher We Go’ as next tracks are really speedy.
Then the sound becomes slower with another great ballad ‘Somehow Precious’ and followed by two more ballads ‘Emancipation Suite: I Dusk’ and ‘Emancipation Suite: II Dawn’ that remember a bit of the sound of the Elements double album.
With ‘When Mountains Fall’ as acoustic song the tempo goes down even more and the album fades to an end.

All in all, Stratovarius have a slightly new sound, but as long term fan like me it is good to hear something different and not waiting for and Infinity II or something similar.

Feel free to let us know your opinion about the new album.

-Martin

Check out some samples at Jorn’s Myspace site:

http://www.myspace.com/realjorn

-Martin

-Martin