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In a market dominated by sluggishly-evolving console systems, a select few has stopped and thought to themselves, “How can I improve my gaming experience, and how can I make it more unique and entertaining?” The answer is simply - Modchips. That’s right, those tiny circuit boards you commonly see on online gaming stores - it’s that extra dark option you force to the back of your mind due to the immense confusion and mystery surrounding it.

In the excited hands of the TweakTown Canadian Labs today, is a brand-new Microsoft Xbox pre-modified with a top-of-the-line modchip and a larger-capacity harddrive. In this article, we plan to demonstrate to our readers the benefits, downsides, precautions and necessities surrounding the installation of a modchip and similar console modifications.

Kindly sampled from one of the professional pre-modified console store on the ‘net, Xbox Mod Chips, our Lab’s new Xbox has been put through the most rigorous testing and analyzing phase we have ever conducted. In the past few days, our excitement has continued as we replaced the Xbox’s harddrive, installed dual BIOSes, two operating systems, then even FTP’d into the Xbox in order to transfer over our MP3’s and music videos, before we installed the Xbox Media Player- WHAT?! Don’t be overwhelmed, just yet, as we’ll take a first-hand look at every single one of the points I have just mentioned.

News source: TweakTown

Main features of Advanced WMA Workshop:

- Handy User's Interface
Easy-to-use Explorer-like interface allows you easily navigate throug audio files on our computer and perform all actions just by one mouse click even for unproficient user.
- Batch Conversion Support
In case of mass conversion you can use inbuilt Batch Conversion engine to increase perfomance. You just need to add files you want to convert to Batch Queue and ress "Process tasks" button! You can easily change conversion settings(output format, it's settings, ID3 Tag information) of tasks in Batch Queue, after you add them.
- Fast Conversion Speed
Audio formats conversion is performed directly, without any temporary WAV files, this fact means higher converting speed and economy of hard disk resource. Fast processing speed saves your time and high conversion quality allows you really to enjoy your digital audio.
- Best Audio Codecs Support
Our digital audio converter uses most modern and fast audio codecs, it internally supports WMA 9 format: WMA 9 with constant bitrate, quality based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate, two-pass bitrate based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate and WMA 9 Lossless format, which allows you to store your digital audio with best qualty. For MP3 encoding it uses fast LAME encoder 3.93, for OGG encoding it uses latest Vorbis SDK updates.
- ID3 Tag v2 Support
Program supports ID3 Tag v2, you can easily transfer all most useful tag fields from one format to another, edit these fields in audio files (multiple files tag edition is also supported).
- Filename generation using ID3 Tag
You can use this feature to generate filename and folder's structure using ID3 Tag information such as artist's and album's name, track's title, genre and track's number.
- Windows XP compatibility
If you use new Windows XP system all conrols in application have XP-style look and feel.
- High Quality CD-Ripping
You can fastly and naturally transcode Audio CD tracks directly to any of WMA 9 format, OGG VOrbis, MP3 or WAV PCM format, using jitter correction to compensate reading errors.
- CDDB Support
You can download information about Audio CD disc such as Album's and Artist's name, track's names, etc. from Internet database just by clicking on CD drive icon in Folders Tree. Saving and loading of CDDB information using
Local CDDB base is also supported.
- Winamp playlists support
Application allows you to create (or append to) Winamp playlists.