Category Archive: Technology

Mar 06 2010

Tune Up

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I have mentioned this very useful extension to iTunes before. Reposting now around two fronts. New friend, music aficionado and DJ Mat Dryhurst provided me with some sample music around the genres of metal, black metal, doom, modern composition, techno, electronic, dubstep – I mean I didn’t even know the genres – much less the …

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Feb 28 2010

Interview with the creator of the Apple startup sound

Not sure whether this classifies as music – but audio it certainly is. Really interesting interview. Interview with the creator of the Apple startup sound They (One More Thing) met up with Reekes while at Macworld in San Francisco a little while back — he’s the guy that programmed most of the sound in the …

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Feb 28 2010

Digital Music Management and Music Discovery for iTunes

Not sure if I have posted this one for before – and on the run – so no time to look it up – however – been playing with this in the background on itunes for a few weeks now – and it is rather neat. Definitely worth a ‘looksee’ – the functionality is great …

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Feb 13 2010

TuneUp | Digital Music Management and Music Discovery for iTunes

Now this is not just COOL – and CLEVER – and yes – we’ve seen and tried them before – but it found unknowns that had run through other systems that had failed …. Take a look. TuneUp | Digital Music Management and Music Discovery for iTunes

Oct 19 2009

The Song Decoders

The NYT did an excellent piece this weekend on the art and science behind Pandora.  Fascinating reading, both on how Pandora profiles the songs as well as how cultural influences interfere with our ability to just listen.

Oct 03 2009

Mobile Access

I have just enabled a plugin on the (just good music blog that reformats for a mobile device – would love to get some feedback.

Sep 19 2009

That 1 Guy

Until last night – when I saw Porcupine Tree for the 4th time – and Steven Wilson for the 5th (Blackfield) – I had never heard of That 1 Guy. Needless to say – friend Bobby G pointed out that he has supported The Tree in the past. So extraordinary – that I had to …

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Jul 21 2009

So Long Then www.cruxy.com

What a crying shame. R I P Cruxy

Jul 02 2009

HTTP Streaming

So – bit of an experiment – so apologies if this doesn’t quite work …. This from my mobile device ….. http://newteevee.com/2009/06/10/the-lowdown-on-apples-http-adaptive-bitrate-streaming/ … is an article on http streaming technology being adopted by apple – behind on the desktop but seemingly ahead on the mobile device …. And a potential bypass of the AT and …

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May 11 2009

A Cool Video To Make You Feel Good

My thanks to JP (the other one) for this link – who wrote “A rather brilliant idea and a very fun video to watch.” I have seen a couple of these recently – that is man with computer travels world layering tracks of same song – but this so far is the best. And the …

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