A friend mentioned to me recently that the Pandora music service was a great way to listen to music online and learn if there’s any similar music you might like. It’s actually a very neat service from the point of view that its creators have analyzed the characteristics (”musical DNA”) of various artists’ music and categorized them. If you tell them that you’re a big Morrissey fan, they look at the characteristics of Morrissey’s music and identify artists whose music is similar. Then they play music by those artists, giving you a chance to see if you like any of them. If you do, more of their music will appear in the stream you receive. If you don’t, they stop the song and quit playing that artist.
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Each week, musician Jonathan Coulton releases a single on his web
site. This week’s single is a cover of Sir Mix-a-lot’s song
“Baby Got Back” done in the style of a pop ballad.
As Coulton says on his blog: “In the proud
tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and
white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my
album ‘Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.’”
I
don’t think you can help but enjoy this one…
Here’s the
page: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
And
the song: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/BabyGotBack.mp3
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If you spend much time on the Internet, sooner or
later you’re going to run into this issue… You find a very interesting
audio stream that you just can’t listen to right now. For example, if
you’re a sports fan it might be an online broadcast of a game that’s
important to your team. If you’re a gamer it might be an interview with
a favorite developer. Whatever the reason, you find yourself wishing
that you could somehow “record” that streaming audio webcast
so that you could listen to it later on.
Unfortunately, systems
like Windows Media Player and Real’s RealOne player are designed to
prevent just that sort of recording. There’s no “save” feature
in the player to capture these streams and no option (usually) to
download them later. What’s a listener to do? Get High
Criteria’s Total
Recorder, (reviewed here) that’s what…
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The Gutenberg project has made electronic versions of
public-domain books available for quite a while. This site is doing the
same thing for audio versions of public-domain books… for
cheap!
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This wasn’t in the user manual, but I finally figured out how
to do it…
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A very nifty piece of gear… Click “Read more” to
see my review…
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