A friend commented recently that she doesn't understand why people put up with such poor sound quality for phone calls on cell phones, and particularly iPhones. "I can hardly hear the person talking to me," she said. "I don't think smart phones are making any improvement to the quality of the phone call," she added. "Is it not important anymore?" She wondered why people accepted such poor quality, and so did Jonathan Berger, but a lot of people just don't hear it the same way.

Media Snap lets you easily search, download and save videos from YouTube. You can save your downloaded YouTube videos as Quicktime movies or as mp3 (audio only) and put it on your iPod. Media Snap requires OS X 10.5.

Yet Another FLAC to MP3 script

Never miss a hot track again. Peel is an MP3 blog reader and player rolled into one. Subscribe and stream music the minute it becomes available!

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

Rubyripper is a front-end application written in Ruby (well, duh) that, like most other linux CD rippers, uses cdparanoia. It differs from most of them because it “tries to deliver a secure rip by ripping the same track multiple times, and correcting any differences”.

Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applyi

If you have any mp3 playing device that does not register itself as a music player, but as a usb-disc, you can use this trick under Linux to get your mp3 player working with rhythmbox

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.

Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

Jinzora enables you to stream your digital music and videos to any internet connected computer using a web browser.

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here.

Nrc Next had gisteren een interessant artikel over de muziekindustrie en een actie van popmuzikant Prince, die zijn laatste cd gratis weggeeft aan de bezoekers van zijn 21 concerten in Londen.

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. Based on a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as

Play music from the website. For free.

Entagged is an Open-source audiofile tagger.

1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It's main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.

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