5 Awesome Music Desktop Gadgets for Vista and Windows 7
Are you a music fan who wants an easy way to get the music you love with a simple application on your desktop? Today we bring you a list of some of the cooler music themed desktop gadgets for Vista and Windows 7.
UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio
Check out new artists and bands emerging on the music scene with the UnsignedBandWeb.com gadget. It allows you to control playback, volume, and songs. You can can pick from a wide variety of music genres including Ska, Rock, Rap, and much more.
Download UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio Desktop Gadget
iTunes Accessory Gadget
This cool gadget allows you to control playback of tracks and other settings in iTunes without having to open up the entire iTunes application.
Download iTunes Accessory Gadget
ChroniX MetalRadio
If you’re a fan of heavy metal, one of the coolest online metal stations is ChroniX Radio. This handy gadget lets you stream and control playback of their three channels–Aggression, Metal, and Grit–where each has a different flavor of hard rock and metal.
Download Chronix MetalRadio Gadget
iClassical Radio Player
For fans of classical music this gadget lets you stream classical music from a variety of online classical stations. The only controls are stop and play but being able to select from a wide variety of stations on your desktop make this a excellent app for the classical music connoisseur.
Download the iClassical Radio Player Gadget
Media Player Gadget
This ties into your Windows Media Player library and allows you to easily search it. It also will display album artwork, track information, and give you visualizations when playing a song. It is a lot easier to navigate than opening the full WMP application.
If you are a fan of Music and desktop gadgets you might want to give these a try. We would like to know about some of your favorite Windows Desktop Gadgets just leave a comment below.
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Try this Internet Radio Player.
Thousands of stations for you and free and pay skins. Try the free skin – Blue-harc. Very nice.
http://www.radiosure.com/ for download.
Here’s some features from their website. This a freeware app.
The “RadioSure” gives you the smoothest radio listening expirience. The main rule is – it should be simple, reliable and should just work.
Main features are:
More than 12000 of stations in the package
Supports most of the internet radio formats – mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ and so on
Quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations
Smooth switching between stations including crossfade effect
Recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files
Simultanious recording of multiple stations
Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates
Command line parametes for automatization
Runs on Windows XP and Vista 32 and 64 bit
UNICODE support – all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable
and much much more…
Did you try any of these. I downloaded the iTunes gadget and it doesn’t look anything like the picture above and it does open iTunes when I press play. It must be a different one. I couldn’t find one in the gallery that looks like the one you describe.
I forgot to mention that Pandora has a great Sidebar App. I use it detached from the sidebar and it allows you to rate songs and see what’s played. Sometimes the mini-player window doesn’t display exactly what it should (just the songs and stations), but it generally works great.
@Da5id:
Thanks for pointing out my error. It is actually called iTunes Accessory and can be downloaded at
http://gallery.live.com/liveIt.....&pl=1
It has also been changed in the post.
Pretty sweet. Thanks.
I agree on that pandora sidebar app. I use that on my laptop all the time. I like the rating feature.
This one is the best I’ve found:
http://www.uniquewg.com/gadget_beatmusicplayer.php