I'm quite new to the current windows generation and which programs to use and what is good. So far I'm using EAC and Foobar2000 which is working perfectly.. What I have left I am looking for is a good mixer with a taskbar applet I can use the mousewheel on, a good DVD player, a all-purpose zip/rar/tar.gz compression tool, a music tagger/file renamer, and a DVD ripper/encoder. If you guys could help me with these or link me to a site with good recommendations, I'd love you

Thanks!

I'm curious - why did you leave Linux? Most people go to Linux, but I don't hear of many coming back from it!

As for your programs...

DVD Player - PowerDVD or TheaterTek
zip/rar/tar.gz - WinRAR
music tagger/file renamer - Foobar can actually tag for you. Other then that I hear things about Tag & Rename and Helium2. There is always Case's Tag with the Tagger frontend.
DVD ripper/encoder - can't help you here. Never tried it at all.

- Agent 86

For compression/decompression, use 7-zip! It supports tar.bz2,tar.gz et cetera, most important if yaou are running Linux, i don't know may progs that support bz2. It's also completly free!!

www.7-zip.com

Cheers,

Kristian

I don't like 7-zip for tar.gz and tar.bz2. It can't untar AND unbz2/ungz simultaneously, like WinRAR does.

Besides, 7z doesn't support RAR compressing, and he asked for a "compression tool"

DVD ripper: my favorite is DVD Decrypter

Ah,

The reason i never mentioned it was, last time i used WinRAR was literally years ago, it either didn't support bz2 then r i didn't configure it properly!

I guess WinRAR is an ok choice then, i may check it out, because the point you metioned about tar.bz2 is a bit annoying, i VERY rarley compress though (data!)

Cheers,

Kristian

Hi meff!
My personal choices.

Compression tool: WinRAR 3
DVDPlayback: PowerDVD
MP3 Tagger: Tag&Rename
DVDRipper: SmartRipper
DivX Encoding Tools: GordianKnot

(For downloading SmartRipper and GordianKnot : http://www.doom9.org)

Best regards.
b:.

For unpacking a meriad of different archive formats including bz2, rar, tar, etc., the freeware archiver Iceows is rather impressive - http://www.iceows.com/

Right now I´m using TagScanner 4.7 (beta build 471) for tagging and renaming purposes. It´s free, it´s russian, and has a really slick interface.

you can find it here:
http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm

I´m also curious about that Linux to Win migration...

Many multimedia programs liste...

http://ookami.videoxone.de/elist/