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Recording Studios Face Uncertain Future (NPR)

Friday, December 11th, 2009

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121304883
Here is an interesting story on how digital recording (your laptop) is replacing expensive recording studios. There is a 6 minute audio segment from NPR at the top of the above link.
“”The real value for most bands isn’t the equipment,” says McTear. “A guy at Guitar Center or Sam Ash would like you to [...]

Apple buys LaLa.com but I’m sure I still won’t get my dream features

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Apple has bought online streaming music service LaLa.com. While this surely changes the game, I’d really like to see a site offer the depth of features that I’ve been dreaming about for at least 4 years now. Yet I don’t even see people trying. I can’t be the only one with these ideas in [...]

MOG introduces All Access on demand music for $5 a month

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

“Today MOG launched MOG All Access, a revolutionary new online music listening service unrivaled in quality and ease-of-use.
MOG All Access is the extraordinary music listening service we full-time music fans have always wanted. You can listen to just about every album and song you can imagine (about 6 million songs), all-you-can-eat and on-demand for just [...]

Microsoft replacement of black man causes uproar over a common advertising practice

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Microsoft recently used a different version of a photo within an ad for two different markets. Apparently this has caused an uproar, Microsoft has apologized, and replaced the changed photo.
huffingtonpost.com

All they did was photoshop out a black man and replaced him with a white man. Advertisers and marketers have been doing this since the [...]

interesting last.fm tools

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

last.fm – Chart to M3U Playlist Generator:
http://lastm3u.powha.net/
chart/graph your music taste:
http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/
Fetch your Last.fm data, munge it and then do wonderful things:
http://l.alanedwardes.com/my/
Visualise Last.fm’s network of similar artists and bands:
http://pattie.fe.up.pt/i_know_that_artist/

find music on twitter

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

http://musebin.ws/
http://twisten.fm/

last.fm music listening habits data graphs

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

http://www.leebyron.com/what/lastfm/
This site presents some very interesting graphic charts for displaying music listening habits using last.fm.

iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The following is from, Slashdot: Apple

iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition mallumax writes “The truth is, iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows. A feature as basic as monitoring a [...]

favtape.com (& opentape.fm)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

favtape.com is a muxtape-like website. The difference is that it doesn’t host the music files. It has a lot more features though. “Top Songs by Year”, genre, decade, etc.
Or you can host your own muxtape-like playlist on your own site with opentape.fm

iTunes 8, using the Genius playlist option to do what you want

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

iTunes 8 features a new playlist creation tool called Genius. To create a playlist with it, you find a song you like and select it in your iTunes library, then you click on the ‘Genius’ button at the bottom right of your iTunes window. iTunes then gives you a few, albeit overly [...]