Convert Record Albums into MP3s [Music] (8)
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Got a stack of LPs you want to store on your hard drive instead of on a shelf? Wired's How-To Wiki runs down the steps to convert LPs into MP3s using free software. Of course, you'll need a turntable and a computer with a line-in port on the sound card to get the job done, too. Photo by timsamoff.
iTunes Lives to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs (1)
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If the [iTunes music store] was forced to absorb any increase in the … royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss–which is no alternative at all. Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it is in this business to make money, and most likely would not continue to operate [the iTunes music store] if it were no longer possible to do so profitably.” ...
ITunes: Keep iTunes 8 from Starting Filenames with Track Numbers (20)
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By default, when you have iTunes set to automatically organize your music library, it saves the files in an /Artist/Album/Track # Song Title.mp3 format. But, if you don't want that track number stuck in the beginning of your music file names automatically, a quick preference change in iTunes 8 will remove it. Macworld explains that you can fire up Terminal, and type the following commands: defaults write com.apple.iTunes create-filenames-with-disknumber -bool FALSE defaults write com.apple.iTunes create-filenames-with-tracknumber ...
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ndench said:
Interesting. I wonder if something similar works on Windows.
MP3tunes case could kill ‘celestial jukebox’ (1)
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Major labels took a dent in their case against MP3tunes founder, Michael Robertson, with New York District Judge William H. Pauley III ordering the label’s copyright infringement suit against Michael Robertson dismissed. The judge also elected that the label case against MP3tunes and its personal music lockers should proceed in his New York court. What’s really important [...]
Yamaha's TENORI-ON : Digital Music For Several Senses. (1)
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Above: designer of the Tenori-On, Toshio IwaiMedia artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a "visible music" interface.The TENORI-ON provides six different performance and sound/light modes for broad performance versatility, and these modes can be combined and used simultaneously for rich, complex musical expression.For DJs & producers it is a unique ...
Best Media Converters? [Hive Five Call For Contenders] (10)
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Virtually every gadget you own is now capable of playing back music and videos—from your computer and phone to your MP3 player and video game console—but the problem is compatibility. Popular format X may play perfectly well on your computer, but it won't think about playing back on your iPod. Not long ago you needed to hunt down obscure command line tools or purchase specialized converters to get your file in the correct format, but ...
Musinaut Music Player DJs Music According to Your Brainwaves [Digital Music] (1)
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French company Musinaut wants to make the music you listen to change according to your mood. To achieve this, they have invented a special player capable of reading your brain waves, interpreting them, and then mixing the music to match your state of mind. So if I was using one right now, I would be listening to a funk version of Abba's Dancing Queen. Sadly, the key for this feat is a new format called ...
How To Customise Your iPod With iPodWizard (1)
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If you're happy enough with the features your iPod offers out of the box that you don't want to install a custom firmware like Rockbox, but you'd still like to add a little personal flair to Apple's cookie-cutter look, you're in luck. Freeware application iPodWizard customises the look and feel of your iPod's interface while still using a customised version of your iPod's default firmware on the device. That means you still get the same ...
Feature: The 20 Best iPod Utilities (3)
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With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn't look quite so bad next to its successors. Whether new or old, the following 20 iPod utilities can help you ...
Apple Threatens To Kill iTunes Store Over Music Royalties (1)
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Fortune reports that Apple is threatening to kill the iTunes Store over music royalties. The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a request by the National Music Publishers’ Association to raise royalty rates on songs purchased from online music stores, like iTunes, from 9 cents to 15 cents per track. “If the [iTunes music store] was forced to absorb any increase in the … royalty rate, the result would ...
Christian Guerreiro shared as favorite iTuny Adds iTunes Controls to Launchy [Featured Windows Download] (11)
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Windows only: iTuny is a free plug-in for popular application launcher Launchy that controls music playback and so much more. Once installed, iTuny adds several actions to Launchy that allow you to play, pause, stop, or advance playback, which alone is a nice start. iTuny doesn't stop there, though; you can also rate songs, show track info, set the volume, search your library, create new playlists, display album art, post to Twitter, and more. iTuny ...
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Dimituri said:
Сделали бы клон Quicksilver как линуксоиды и не парились.
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BillDeys said:
Better bookmark this in case I switch back! I've used Launchy a bit and it's no Quicksilver but it's pretty good.
iTuny Adds iTunes Controls To Launchy (1)
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Windows only: iTuny is a free plug-in for popular application launcher Launchy that controls music playback and so much more. Once installed, iTuny adds several actions to Launchy that allow you to play, pause, stop, or advance playback, which alone is a nice start. iTuny doesn't stop there, though; you can also rate songs, show track info, set the volume, search your library, create new playlists, display album art, post to Twitter, and more. iTuny ...
A new Music Ecosystem: my presentation at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam (1)
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual PICNIC conference in Amsterdam, today, on the topic of "A New Music Ecosystem- Future Models for Music Creation, Distribution, Marketing and Selling". The details: "The music industry is changing. Artists and developers everywhere are working on new ways of connecting fans and bands and developing new businesses along the way. In this PICNIC Special, the future of the music industry will be presented by keynote speaker ...
Breathe New Life into Your Aging MP3 Player with Rockbox [Mp3 Players] (58)
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Since the birth of the iPod in 2001, Apple has released generation after generation of new iPods packed with exciting feature updates. The problem is that your not-so-old iPod probably feels like it's drifted into obsolescence. Sure they both still play music, but take a look at a first gen iPod next to an iPod touch and it's not hard to understand where I'm coming from. Rather than pony up for a shiny new MP3 ...
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Fredrik H said:
Kanske skulle försöka blåsa liv i min gamla iPod och installera rockbox?
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Ben said:
it's great to see RockBox come of age. i used it back on my iRiver H140 and if it hadn't died i would probably still be using it. RockBox made it into the best mp3 player ever. and it makes my iPod much more tolerable.
Breath New Life into Your Aging MP3 Player with Rockbox [Mp3 Players] (20)
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Breathe New Life into Your Aging MP3 Player with Rockbox [Mp3 Players] (9)
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《时代周刊》:MySpace发动了场免费音乐革命 (1)
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以前我总喜欢自鸣得意到我已经好几年没有买过一张CD了。而是通过每月12.99美元的费用从一个叫Phapsody的网站上订购音乐服务并从上面下载任何我想要的歌曲。但在9月25日，社交网络巨头MySpace揭开了其新音乐服务的神秘面纱，这时候我开始高兴不起来了。 首先MySpace Music是免费的，用户可以便捷地访问其巨大的音乐库。这个网站已经和EMI, Sony BMG, 环球唱片公司和华纳音乐四大唱片公司签署了协定以上传他们名下的音乐目录。先从那些在其网站上已经建有页面的五百万歌手开始着手上传音乐，MySpace的确有一个非常好的起点。 到底有什么好的呢？MySpace 当然不会说它的音乐曲库有多大，但它承认这旨在与Rhapsody和iTunes竞争。一位供职于四大唱片公司之一的朋友说虽然MySpace与四大世界级的唱片公司签署的定单超过二百万首曲目，但它依然在尽可能多地努力获取在线音乐目录，并且与那些并不希望自己专辑公开的敏感音乐人签署协议。 一直以来，MySpace都说它的曲库将会不断增大并与Rhapsody和iTunes形成强有力的竞争，音乐产业的知情人说这很多都是音乐宏伟计划的一部分。我一个朋友说：“我们所有人都想看到一个健康的生态系统，音乐就像公共物品一样。”换句说，这些唱片公司希望看到一个到处可售的音乐图书馆，不管以什么方式：免费或者付费订阅，网站提供的在线播放或者按次下载付费，加密或者未加密的。让这个最好的商业模式实现赢利！唱片公司可以通过所有方式赚到钱。事实上，索爱和它的竞争对手诺基亚今年在海外（我一个朋友说将晚点在美国推出）都启动了为其手机用户免费提供少量音乐的服务。那些曲目直接与手机关联在一起，所以即使你放弃现用的移动运营商，那些下载的音乐依然可以被保留下来。 现在曲库的大小它心中自有数目，MySpace做了很多努力来刺激歌迷们，而这有助于这个社交网站击败其竞争对手Facebook（Facebook从四月份开始在月流量上超过了MySpace）。一个叫作MyMusic的成套工具可以让你创建无限的播放列表（每张列表上最多允许100首曲目）以在网上收听或分享给你的好友。比如说，你一直想要一些酷玩乐队的曲目，只需创建一张播放列表，把所有四张专辑全拖进去。虽然一些全长歌曲的音质没CD的好（一般是128千比特每秒），但这对电脑播放来说已经足够了。 它几乎没有说MySpace将会很高兴地向你出售那些它新服务没有涉及到的歌曲或者专辑；但这个网站与亚马逊达成了合作，将由它来处理这部分交易，并向你传送未加密的MP3。的确是那样，当你安装MyMusic时，你可以添加一个Amazon扩件和安装一个音乐下载器（我得知Mac和Windows平台都被支持）来把你购买的音乐拖到任何你希望的地方，包括iTunes，所以你可以把这些音乐转送到你的iPod上。（音乐价格从79美分到99美分不等。） 这简直太酷了，但MySpace真正的恩惠是为人们提供一种发现新音乐的更优越的途径。音乐探索在当前非常火爆；苹果iTunes的Genius功能（Apple iTunes8最新推出的一个根据你收听的音乐记录分析整理并向你推荐音乐的功能，译者注）和微软Zune播放器都非常依赖逼近算法的电脑调控。而MySpace的解决方案很简单，并且更优秀，我想它可以让你知道你的朋友正在听什么。像Facebook一样，MySpace有一个新闻递送功能，把你所关注的好友们收听的情况传送给你。因此，如果我作为音乐家的兄弟Seth Augustue（艺名）在他的播放列表上添加一些有趣的曲子，我的新闻种子就可以向我反馈。我甚至可以订阅他的播放列表。 不管怎么说MySpace也会遇到些障碍。举个例子，Seth是我在MySpace上唯一的好友；我家庭其余成员和我所有朋友都使用Facebook。MySpace是否有那个能耐让他们都转移到MySpace上还不太好说。同样的，Rhapsody为我的家庭音乐系统——Sonos（可以无线连接所有房间的扬声器）——提供音乐。相比而言MySpace Music那部分免费音乐仅仅对我的电脑适用，所以基于这一点我还是会继续订购Phapsody的服务，但我猜想就我的家庭而言订购音乐的日子不多了。 翻译：个篱 原文：地址 新音乐时代下的网络电台：Aol Radio 新音乐时代？ 关于Android, 你不得不知的10件事 Google:有史以来基于免费的最大公司 101个Google技巧——Google技巧的终极收集(下) 101个Google技巧——Google技巧的终极收集(中) 35个下载免费合法音乐的地方——抱歉美国唱片协会 101个Google技巧——Google技巧的终极收集(上) 本文原始链接, 只有2 条评论, Copyright© 个篱遐想录 ,欢迎点击这里订阅敝博客, 《欧美音乐博客周刊》如果在博客网站上浏览将获得更佳体验. 点击这里为在德国之声博客大赛上的我加油. 觉得不错？收藏、分享这篇文章，方便以后查看！
TagScanner Renames and Tags Your Digital Music (48)
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Windows only: Rename the thousands of MP3 files in your digital music library and add or edit tags, lyrics, and album art in one fell swoop with free utility TagScanner. Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define (like %artist% - %title%), it can make music playlists, and search online databases like ...
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Just the app I was looking for.
TagScanner Renames And Tags Your Digital Music (1)
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Windows only: Rename the thousands of MP3 files in your digital music library and add or edit tags, lyrics, and album art in one fell swoop with free utility TagScanner. Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define (like %artist% - %title%), it can make music playlists, and search online databases like ...
