January 2012
MSN Visualizer - Overview
by gregg
VISUALIZER BY MSN PLAYS 47 SONGS AND SHOWS MILLIONS OF PICTURES. THE LYRICS WITH A TOTAL OF OVER 11'000 WORDS EXPLORE FLICKR AS TAGS FOR IMAGES, THE DYNAMIC SELECTION WITHIN THE SEARCH RESULTS HAPPENS RANDOMLY. EACH TIME A SONG IS BEING PLAYED, VISUALIZER BY MSN CREATES A COMPLETELY NEW AND UNIQUE VIDEO CLIP. ENJOY IT AND USE IT: WRITE YOUR OWN WORDS, PLAY IT WITH A RANDOM SONG AND SEND THE SOUNDING MESSAGE TO YOUR FIENDS. IT'S GREAT, IT'S FUN, IT'S HIGHLY PERSONAL.
December 2011
AudioVroom
by gregg
Welcome to AudioVroom, your social playlist generator, where music is collaborative, like getting a mix tape.
Our app allows users to follow the musical preferences of their Facebook friends. It is like having the world’s largest music collection in your pocket (millions of songs) and all of your friends’ favorite playlists to enjoy.
Apple releases 12 Days of Christmas app for Europe, Canada
by alamat & 1 other (via)
Apple has launched its 12 Days of Christmas app in preparation for its annual holiday promotion offering free songs, music videos, apps and books to residents of parts of Europe and Canada.
November 2011
This... is... SPARTIFY!
by Spone
Host a Party and let guests choose what songs to play on Spotify. No more huddling in front of one computer or messing up the queue! What if they're all drunk? Don't worry, We'll fill it up for ya!
October 2011
August 2011
We Are Hunted - The Online Music Chart
by garret
About:
We listen to what people are saying about artists and their music on blogs, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, message boards and forums, Twitter and P2P networks to chart the top songs online everyday.
A new Top of the Pops
In the offline world, charts are built on shipped albums. Online charts have been a simple count of digital downloads. We Are Hunted is different. We discover new music from around the web and detect sentiment, expression and advocacy to understand what people like and dislike.
A Better Way to Discover Music
Visually driven, intuitive and simple, We Are Hunted seeks to be a daily destination for music lovers looking to discover their next favorite artist. Through We Are Hunted, music fans can discover new music and more importantly, join the conversation about it.
July 2011
The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine
C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.
June 2011
Spotify Technology: How Spotify Works | Pansentient League - a Spotify Blog
by ghis (via)
Interesting analysis of how Spotify works. As Skype, it uses a p2p network for streaming songs and thus decreasing the servers bandwidth.
March 2011
January 2011
December 2010
Book Review - Finishing The Hat - By Stephen Sondheim - NYTimes.com
by jeanruaud
The book “Finishing the Hat” becomes a metaphor for that feeling of joy, the little squirt of dopamine hitting the brain when the artist creates a work of art. It’s a feeling so addictive the artist is willing to forgo love in order to experience artistic bliss. It could be a metaphor for Sondheim’s love of songwriting.
“Finishing the Hat” — a fascinating compilation of lyrics, commentary and anecdotes, covering the years 1954 to 1981 — is essentially about process, the process of writing songs for theater.
mp3skull.com | Mp3 search engine
by Moomin & 1 other
"mp3skull.com is an easy way to listen and download music. You can find your favorite songs in our multimillion database of quality mp3 links. We provide fast and relevant search. You can also post music in your blog or personal site."
mp3skull.com | Mp3 search engine
by garret & 1 other
"mp3skull.com is an easy way to listen and download music. You can find your favorite songs in our multimillion database of quality mp3 links. We provide fast and relevant search. You can also post music in your blog or personal site."
November 2010
ULoops - Music Composer
by cascamorto
Uloops Music Composer it's a complete composition environment for android devices. Make hi-quality tracks using three concepts: Song, Loop and Devices (including Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Modulators and Recorders). Publish your songs in our community and adapt the work from others to your compositions.
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote | Derek Sivers
by night.kame
“This number could have easily been much higher, if we wanted to let in every song.
But we realize record companies do a great service.
They edit!
Did you know that if you and I record a song, for $40 we can pay a few of the services to get it on their site, through some intermediaries?
We can be on Rhapsody and all these other guys for $40?
Well we don't want to let that stuff on our site!
So we've had to edit it.
And these are 400,000 quality songs.”
October 2010
NPR: All Songs Considered Podcast : NPR Podcasts
by garret
"In NPR Music's All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen brings you an eclectic mix of fresh music by emerging and breakout bands and musical icons."
The hosts talk a lot. Probably better for music news than music listening.
Google Translate
by sylvainulg
"Cream Soda" songs regularly pop up in my playlist and make me smiling ^_^. I think "AIBOMB" is the song that triggered my initial curiosity and made me locate this little gems mine ...
August 2010
Sparrow Songs
by gregg
Sparrow Songs is a project in which filmmaker Alex Jablonski and cinematographer Michael Totten make and exhibit one short documentary per month, every month for one year.
July 2010
MP3-Info - Get more info on your songs directly in the Finder and iTunes - and more!
by sbrothier (via)
MP3-Info is a clever companion that helps you organize your music collection. It is essentially a Plug-in for the Finder and iTunes.
MP3-Info displays valuable information about audio files, such as their duration, the bitrate, important MP3-Tags, such as the artist, the title of the song, lyrics, cover art, and some more. That saves you a lot of time managing your song collection. It also shows these information for AAC files created by iTunes, and WAV, and AIFF files.
And that is only the beginning! MP3-Info also allows you to rename your song files based on their tags, or find similar songs in your CDFinder collection, and much more!
May 2010
California is a place.
by gregg
California is loaded. From Disneyland to farmland, we’ve got Scientology and superstars, Silicon and silicone, crips and bloods. The border. Krumpin’ Clownin’ Jerkin’. The surf and the turf. The boom and the bust. California is humanity run amuck and then packaged, branded and sold. California Cuisine, California Love, California Casual, California Gold, California Girls, and of course, California Dreams. If it exists in the world, it exists here and it does so with pizzaz.
Obviously, we love this stuff. That’s why we’re doing this project. Simply put, California is sensational. And the closer we look the better it gets: words and images, stories and songs, opinions and ideas. This project is ongoing. We hope you like what you see and say so. We plan to post often. So until that day, when we finally float off into the Pacific, California is a place. Stay tuned.
