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No Copyright Intended | Waxy.org
"Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give."
copyright  copyfight  ip  youtube  future  law  video  music  mp3  via:deusx 
december 2011 by blech
Op-Ed Columnist - Swan Songs? | NYTimes.com
Quotes a PRS survey: "Of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs. That’s less than one percent of the songs."
nytimes  music  mp3  longtail  via:magnetbox 
august 2009 by blech
Spotify v illegal downloads: Free but legal | The Economist
Generally this won't tell the savvy anything they don't already know, but this was news to me: "At present a little more than 40,000 Spotify users pay a monthly subscription to obtain better sound quality and avoid advertisements—a puny number compared with the 6m who have installed the free application."
economist  spotify  music  mp3  freemium 
august 2009 by blech
Songbird DAAP Client | Songbird Add-ons
Interesting. Not that I think I'll be using Songbird.
songbird  mp3  daap  itunes 
december 2008 by blech
Amazon MP3 goes live in the UK | Music Ally
More on Amazon MP3's UK launch. "There’s some indie-sized holes in the catalogue at the time of writing - no Oasis apart from the spoken-word Wibbling Rivalry EP, no Arctic Monkeys, a single live track from Franz Ferdinand. Interestingly, the same artists that were missing from Nokia’s Comes With Music"
amazon  mp3  comment  music  download 
december 2008 by blech
MP3 Music Downloads: Getting Started | Amazon.co.uk
MP3 downloads come to Amazon UK. Finally.
amazon  mp3  uk  music  download 
december 2008 by blech
The IBM glass engine | Philip Glass
All Glass, all the time. Requires Java, and I wish it wouldn't restart tracks as you switch contexts, but recommended anyway.
music  philipglass  java  infographics  audio  mp3 
november 2008 by blech
Tom's Essay | Measure for Measure
Suzanne Vega in the New York Times on Tom's Diner, its remixes, and its position in technology history. It's a good read.
music  history  mp3  technology  culture  nytimes  suzannevega  via:ldanderson 
september 2008 by blech
a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends
A wonderful rant about the state of music on the web, on the desktop, and in online stores, from one of the people behind Winamp, Gnutella and Yahoo's online store. Second thing I've seen online recently comparing iTunes to a spreadsheet. Hm.
music  mp3  itunes  interface  drm  software  usability  comment  talk  rant 
october 2007 by blech
Ars Technica: a review of the iPod touch
Gets a bit hung up on the editing issue for my liking, but does at least note that maybe they could use the wifi for syncing. I'm a bit worried about the noises being made about the screen, too. Worth reading.
ipod  ipodtouch  review  arstechnica  music  mp3 
september 2007 by blech
[this is aaronland] Songlines
The state of music streaming is, indeed, awful.
music  osx  daap  n800  ubuntu  mp3 
july 2007 by blech
Fusedaap News » About
Fuse plugin to do DAAP, as you'd expect. Naturally it doesn't talk to iTunes 7 yet. Could be the thing that finally gets me to install MacFUSE. Uses Tom Insam's fab Python-DAAP.
daap  itunes  mp3  fuse 
march 2007 by blech
iTunes 7.1 (Quarter Life Crisis)
I was thinking of writing up the sort ordering options introduced in iTunes 7.1, but this seems to be a fairly useful description anyway. I was wondering if the sort data was in tags or the library; looks like the latter. Sigh. No metadata silos!
itunes  apple  ui  comment  music  mp3  metadata 
march 2007 by blech
Wii Media Center X - Stream Media to Wii
If I actually had a Wii, I'd love this. How about a DS version, huh huh huh?
mediacenter  media  mp3  nintendo  wii  software 
december 2006 by blech
DJ software for Windows and Mac OS X
Ars Technica covers, er, DJ software. For Mac OS X. And Windows. Like it says up there.
article  osx  windows  music  software  mp3  review 
october 2006 by blech
Don't Lose The Music: RNID calls for more prominent warnings on MP3 player packaging
Strangely hip design for a royal institute. Doubt anyone will pay any attention though.
news  music  mp3  ipod 
september 2006 by blech
#02 - Polaroid (MP3, 2.8 MB)
I managed to lose the rips of this I made from my own copy, and since then I've given away my Playstation and the game. So hurrah for internets! (now, where's the PSP version?)
mp3  music  games  via:deusx 
july 2006 by blech
snorp.net - Tangerine
"Tangerine is an application that allows you to publish music over the local network, using DAAP. ... Music files can be specified either by a directory, or can be automatically discovered using Beagle." Good idea, this. Doubt it'll displace mt-daapd for
itunes  daap  mp3  music  linux  spotlight  via:jerakeen 
july 2006 by blech
CoverScout | Equinux
"With CoverScout you can search Album Covers on Amazon, Google and iTunes Music Store" - the latter being most impressive. $20 though. Hmm. Batching could make it worth it.
apple  itunes  mp3  applications  macosx  artwork 
june 2006 by blech
Max from sbooth.org
"Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files." Will do FLAC -> MP3 conversion, apparently. Including metadata transfer. And it's free. Handy.
osx  audio  software  mp3 
may 2006 by blech
Thursday's links and observations - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
A comment on StreamRecorder, which I confused with the half a dozen other StreamRecorder apps out there. This one converts RA streams to MP3. Could be handy.
mp3  bbc  radio  macosx  blogcomment 
may 2006 by blech
TrustedReviews - The €7 MP3 Player
Doesn't come with any memory, but SD prices mean you can get a 1GB solid state player with screen for under thirty quid.
mp3  player  hardware  cheap 
may 2006 by blech
MacDevCenter.com -- Grabbing iTMS Preview Tracks the Geek Way
Looks like an awful lot of hard work to me, but interesting too
ipod  itms  mp3  hacks 
may 2006 by blech
Amua - Last.fm control for Mac OS X
Could be useful
lastfm  mp3  itunes  opensource 
may 2006 by blech
The One with all other Ones: iPod and India
I wish people wouldn't conflate the iPod with ID3- should Apple rewrite metadata standards? I expect there are people out there who wish that people wouldn't do the same with "MP3 player", too, for different reasons.
mp3  id3  metadata  music  culture  itms  via:mattb 
may 2006 by blech
Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Flea Mail
Entertaining rant about the Red Hot Chilli Peppers rambling letter about the leak of their double album (what's the betting it's a complete wankfest?) and the baffling "poor sound quality" comment.
music  mp3  rhcp 
may 2006 by blech
angels twenty » Kylie Minogue - Nothing Can Stop Us
Not at all bad, but then I've always had a sneaky liking for Kylie's (very short and only loosely) indie phase
music  mp3  kylie  saintetienne 
may 2006 by blech
radio babylon - a photoset on Flickr
Tiny battery-powered random iTunes share player. Very nice hack from andym there.
itunes  sharing  hacks  gumstix  mp3  radio 
january 2006 by blech
Playlist: 'Oboe' syncs, streams your digital music
"a music locker that stores your digital music". Hmm.
mp3  music  itunes 
november 2005 by blech
3.08: Music on Demand
Right: centralised music stores. Wrong: no peer to peer copying. Pretty good though. Via Gyford's Overmorgen, tangentially
music  mp3  wired  prediction 
february 2005 by blech
VLC media player for Mac OS X
(not new but) needed to play aacPlus on Mac OS X until iTunes gets its finger out. A really good Unix app port (unlike so many others)
mp3  media  video  tools  apple  aac  radio 
january 2005 by blech
MPR: Radio Listening: 89.3 The Current
Interesting US station (somewhere in the 6music/XFM space) that uses aacPlus
radio  pbs  us  mp3  aac 
january 2005 by blech
You Can't Be Too Thin - The skinny new audio format that will replace MP3s—and revolutionize Internet radio. By Paul Boutin
aacPlus aka HE AAC, which looks pretty interesting (via interconnected/mini)
aac  mp3  radio 
january 2005 by blech
JHymn Goes Behind Atoms and Apple To Bring DRM-Free Music
A bit more human-readable detail of what JHymn does, including how iTunes 4.7.1 uses watermarking to enforce DRM
apple  mp3  itms  fairlplay  drm 
january 2005 by blech
Panic Software - The True Story of Audion
Long, but well worth reading (and clicking on the sidenotes)
development  ipod  mac  mp3  music 
november 2004 by blech
Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die"
How did BoingBoing get so big when they write such crap?
mp3  music  navelgazing  spool 
november 2004 by blech
BLEEP - Digital Downloads from Warp Records
Oh dear, Bleep have other labels now. This has the potential to get expensive
mp3  music  shop 
august 2004 by blech
Comparison of ID3 Fields/Frames
Handy (especially when you have a TPA and want to find out what that is in v2.3+)
id3  mp3 
august 2004 by blech
Another bad review of the Sony NW-HD1
Is it just me, or does it look like this product is going to utterly, utterly die a death?
gadgets  mp3  music 
august 2004 by blech
Nicotine".app": Home
Nice idea, but fugly, slow and unusable. Oh well.
macosx  mp3 
august 2004 by blech
Jeffrey Veen: User Experience is More Than Design
The Sony Network Walkman NW-HD1 sounds like a right turkey
design  gadgets  mp3  music 
july 2004 by blech
Wired News: The House That Music Fans Built
Gracenote leave a really bad taste in my mouth, for closing their DBs. Yay for MB and FreeDB.
database  id3  mp3  from delicious
july 2004 by blech
Wired News: The House That Music Fans Built
Gracenote leave a really bad taste in my mouth, for closing their DBs. Yay for MB and FreeDB.
database  id3  mp3 
july 2004 by blech
Cory Doctorow - Microsoft Research DRM talk
There's a couple of factual errors (or at least, things that don't ring true), but it's kind of interesting
drm  microsoft  mp3  politics 
june 2004 by blech
2lmc spool: iMix sucks
OK, so it's my rant. It's not news. That's what happens when you stop 95% of the planet getting at a service.
itms  mp3  navelgazing 
june 2004 by blech
We're Stuck with MP3
Seems sensible to me. Why not use the format with the widest support?
mp3  from delicious
june 2004 by blech
We're Stuck with MP3
Seems sensible to me. Why not use the format with the widest support?
mp3 
june 2004 by blech
Sonos | What Sonos Is
Interesting product doing the same sort of thing as AirPort Express, without the vendor locking. Expensive, though.
hardware  mp3 
june 2004 by blech
Macworld Editors' Notes Weblog: How AirTunes Works
Oops. My previous annotation was wrong; it's not daap, it's ALC. Could make third party support... tricky.
airport  apple  mp3 
june 2004 by blech
Apple - AirPort Express
AirPort router with built in daap client, and cheap/tiny to boot. I think I'm going to go mad.
airport  apple  mp3 
june 2004 by blech
Inspirational Technology: Cleaning up iTunes plist XML
XSLT to simplify the horrible .plist format iTunes Music Library XML file
development  id3  macosx  mp3 
june 2004 by blech
Phil Gyford: Less metadata, more music
Sigh. I have so many tapes I should rip. It's a shame that Phil can't actually share the mp3s, too.
bbc  mp3  music 
june 2004 by blech
hackdiary: Audioscrobbler meets the commandline
Nice linkdump of Audioscrobbler stuff, plus technical musings
development  id3  mp3 
may 2004 by blech
Audio-Only DVD Ripping Guide
Could be useful
mp3 
may 2004 by blech
iTunes per iPod
21 from the iTMS, but how do the others split between rips and warez?
ipod  itms  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
Powazek: Just a Thought: Out of Tune
Sven's post tells him how to fix the arrow behaviour. I mailed Powazek, but he has anti-spam stuff. He's still nice enough to mail me back though.
itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
QLC: iTunes 4.5
Sven's coverage is the best roundup I've read (far better than the MacLife guy's one, certainly)
itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
iTunes
New release (4.5, complete with "Jukebox" tag to distinguish from iTMS) (plus iPod software 2.2, *not* for 3g iPods only) (oops)
ipod  itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
iPodlounge Forums - iPod 40gig - beautiful, but WHY OH WHY MUST I USE ID3???
because ID3 is a *standard*, and your folder organisation *isn't*. Next!
id3  ipod  mac  mp3  music 
april 2004 by blech

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