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Downloads for Managing Your Media

March 16, 2009, 02:40 PM —  PC World — 

If you're a multimedia fan, you probably have a hard disk full of videos and songs. Keeping track of them all, playing them all, and managing them all can be tough. To help, we've assembled a selection of downloads that can do all that for you and more. With these ten free and low-cost utilities, you can download videos from YouTube, download streaming audio, and even edit your own creations.

Read on to learn more about the programs, or see our "Downloads for Managing Your Media" collection for quick access to all ten applications.

Video Downloaders and Converters

The Web is full of great videos, from YouTube and countless other sites. The problem is, the videos stream to your PC, so in order to watch your favorites, you have to head back to the particular sites that host them. Wouldn't it be nice if you could download the videos to your hard drive, so that you could view them whenever you want and send them to friends?

We've chosen two great video downloaders--one is a Firefox add-on and the other is a stand-alone program that works specifically with YouTube. In addition, we found a very good tool for converting videos into assorted formats so that you can view them on any device. And all three programs are free.

Any Video Converter Free Version
Just about any device these days--an iPod or another MP3 player, a cell phone, a PlayStation Portable--can play video. But what do you do when you have videos on your PC that you want to play on those devices? PC formats won't necessarily play on the devices; and even when they do, their dimensions are often wrong.

Any Video Converter Free comes to the rescue. It converts video files into many different formats, so you can make downloaded videos playable on various portable devices. It even will download YouTube videos for you.

Converting videos is exceptionally easy: You just select a video or videos, choose the desired format, and click the Encode button. That's it--the video is then ready for transfer and playback.

Download Any Video Converter Free Version | Price: Free

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