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Play .dvdmedia files with VLC

by TJ Luoma (Feb 26th, 2013)

Update 2013-04-11: Thanks to Felix Paul Kühne, lead developer of VLC for Mac, this feature has been added to VLC 2.0.6 without the need for the user to make any changes to the app. If you use that version, or later, you do not need to take the steps below. The article below remains only for ...

TUAW Review: Tagalicious for iTunes metadata, artwork, and lyrics

by TJ Luoma (Sep 27th, 2010)

Tagalicious is a $20 Mac application from the The Little App Factory (best known for their excellent DVD ripper RipIt), which will clean up your iTunes library metadata, fetch artwork, and even find lyrics. So far, it's been extremely impressive both in accuracy and price. I had a Guns N' Roses song ...

RipIt yanks your DVDs right off the disc

by Mike Schramm (Oct 16th, 2008)

HandBrake handles most of my DVD-ripping responsibilities just fine, but RipIt came to our attention recently, and as a simple one-touch way to get a movie off of a DVD and on to your hard drive (in order to, say, watch it on a laptop without lugging the disc itself along), it looks pretty simple. ...