Song of the Moment

Posted and filed under music, Web Design.

Time for a little poll. Every now and then I upload a mystery song to my Song of the Moment blog. Does anyone ever download it? Should I bother to keep doing that? I never get any feedback, and I’m wondering if it’s worth it. So here’s your chance to make an impact on the… Read more »

mp3 Software

Posted and filed under Software.

Tag&Rename is a powerful, easy-to-use program for organizing and archiving your library of music files. It’s solid design handles both the .mp3 and .vqf music formats. With Tag&Rename, you can quickly and easily rename your music while also editing the embedded tag data used by popular music players – both ID3 and ID3 v2 formats.

Burn Baby Burn

Posted and filed under music.

I finally finished making my Burn Baby Burn Weblogger CD Exchange mixes (previously mentioned here). I’m late. They were supposed to be in the mail on the 15th. I’ve already received CDs from three other participants: unusuallysuspect.com, cultofdarian.com, and Sophia H. I am really digging the one from unusuallysuspect.com. It’s ultra-mellow. And Sophia stuck Springsteen’s… Read more »

The Covers Project

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Amazon XML? Google API? Web services? You want some cool web services? The Covers Project … building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover “chains.” A cover chain is a set of songs in which each song is a cover of… Read more »

Music Industry News

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I’m finding more good links through The Shifted Librarian than I can imagine. This is a consistently excellent blog which covers a wide range of intriguing topics. In the past few days there has been some well-written commentary (and linkage) on the state of the radio/music industry in the new, digital era. Here are three… Read more »

MightyDAC

Posted and filed under media, Software.

If you need to rip a CD to mp3, I found an awesome program to use.

Ripping

Posted and filed under Software.

More links about digital music … the Napster alternatives page from Lycos Vamp’s Layer 3 Software Page A Rob Fantastic mp3 encoder Search for mp3 encoder Did I mention that my Song of the Moment page is back?

m.u.s.i.c.

Posted and filed under media, music.

I’m listening to the theme song from The Sopranos on winamp right now. (“Woke Up This Morning” – by A3) If you haven’t yet – [What? Are you still trying to use Napster?!] – you should cruise over to audiogalaxy.com. It took me about ten minutes to grab a bunch of new songs. They pop… Read more »

PulseNewMedia Napster Pig Latin

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PulseNewMedia, a company affiliated with the University of Toronto, is using pig Latin to disguise Napster file names that are to be blocked this week. Once installed, the software alters the names of MP3 files, moving the first letter to the end of the word. The band Metallica, for instance, would become ettalicam.

Atlanta

Posted and filed under music.

Atlanta – Stone Temple Pilots

Live365

Posted and filed under technology.

There is some groovy stuff at live365.com. I guess I haven’t been paying much attention to the mp3 wave lately. Is that still the big thing? I don’t know about you, but I’m still waiting to get one of these …

Digital Music

Posted and filed under technology.

I found a cool SoftSeek.com site with all kinds of freeware and shareware utilities for computer music. It’s definitely a good resource if you have a CD-R or are a big mp3 geek. I just finished downloading CD Box Labeler Pro to print inserts for CD jewel cases.