Archive for the ‘ Music ’ Category
Here are some tricks you can use to get the most out of the time you spend queuing and voting tracks in Soundrop listening rooms. Spotify Search Syntax Works in Soundrop You may or may not have discovered that the Spotify client supports complex search expressions. Full details are posted on the Spotify website article [ READ MORE ]
Over the past weekend I collected a bunch of tracks I’ve heard recently on Soundrop and put together a Spotify playlist to share with my friends online. For this specific playlist I wanted to order the tracks so that flowed together seamlessly when gapless / track cross-fade is enabled in the Spotify client. I collected [ READ MORE ]
Soundrop, the fantastic social music listening application for the Spotify platform, reported recently that they streamed 35 million tracks in April, 2012 (up from 15 million tracks in March). I was curious about the number and how it relates to the number of people using Soundrop so I did little number crunching and estimate that [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been a big fan of the Spotify music platform since it launched in the U.S. last year. Spotify hosts a massive online archive of music available for streaming. Wikipedia states that Spotify’s catalog comprised 15-million tracks in July, 2011. According the Spotify website, there is over 80-years worth of HD music in their catalog [ READ MORE ]
I recently discovered what I consider to be a major design flaw in the Zune client software that allows some idiot like me to accidentally select their entire music collection (in my case in excess of 25K tracks) and change the my rating for every single fragging track in a single mouse click – no [ READ MORE ]
Sitting here half watching the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival on PBS Great Performances and suddenly – wow… Okay Jeff Beck (one of my personal favorites from way back) is jamming… But, who is this kid he’s got up on stage on bass? Man, it’s amazing to see so much tallent stuffed into someone so [ READ MORE ]
Man this is great! Check this out: http://www.di.fm/edmguide/music.swf[ READ MORE ]
Tourfilter.com searches club websites and sends you email when your favorite bands come to town. That’s cool! For example: TourFilter Calendar for Seattle Washington[ READ MORE ]
I don’t ever seem to get sick of listening to Fila Brazillia. The Speewah (Video on YouTube) Fila Brazillia Homepage[ READ MORE ]
I went over to MS’ Bear Creek facility this afternoon to check out Squid Leader and VYTEAR from LaptopBattle.org who were mixing up sets for the geeks from the Zune group and taking questions about gear, samples, software, Vista vs. Mac … It was cool. Some big fat beats. Nobody in that building got any [ READ MORE ]
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