Record streaming audio w/ MP3MyMp3 Recorder
Submitted on September 26th, 2006 by admin
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Those of you who’ve been visiting this site for a while, may remember that Mike and I used to do a (mostly) weekly podcast. During that time, I played around with dozens of different audio recording applications, none of which worked as well as my still favorite application, Audacity; however, there is a small application I just discovered which may prove useful not just for podcasting, but for recording streaming internet radio, or even VOIP calls on your machine. The application is MP3MyMP3 Recorder.
The applications is pretty simple to use. Just pick your audio source, and your audio format, and record away. MP3MyMP3 Recorder supports not only MP3 and WAV recording, but also the less popular AIF, SWA, and AU (What!? No OGG!?). Download the application for free, but remember, it’s Windows only.
How to embed YouTube into Winamp
Submitted on July 21st, 2006 by admin
Filed under Audio and Software and Windows
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Are you a YouTube junkie? Yeah, me too. If you’re a Winamp user, you might enjoy this quick tip to embed a YouTube page directly into your media player. Open the configuration file found inside C:\Program Files\Winamp\ Plugins\ml\ml_online.ini and add the following lines to the file:
ElementId11=8000
ElementIcon11=11002
ElementSubbed11=1
ElementName11=Youtube
ElementURL11=http://youtube.com/?cmd=mini
Then, remove the line ElementID10=-1, save the file, and restart Winamp. A little useless? Maybe, but still fun.
[Via Lifehacker]
Yahoo! Go beta
Submitted on April 28th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Audio and Video and Windows
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Yahoo has finally come out with their own all in oneDVR/media software for your PC. I’ve tinkered around a little bit and it’s pretty slick. Very cool and eye appealing user interface but uses quite a bit of your computers resources. Overall this Yahoo Go program can act as your DVR, music player, photo and video player. What I didn’t like was the menu system. It only has a “Back” button which becomes tedious to use once your going through a huge list of folders. They need to actually put a “Home” or a “Menu” button on every page so that it can take your right back to the main menu. Also I tried editing the album art cause it was displaying the wrong one and I couldn’t. By default it will use the image it sees in the directory/root closest to the music track. I didn’t have a tv tuner card to actually check out the DVR functionality of the program. If anyone can give me a heads up on it I’d much appreciate it. Once again go check it out yourself at yahooGo beta.
Get album and DVD art w/ CoverDude
Submitted on February 6th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Graphics and Audio and Services and Video
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Do you have a large (and legal, of course) movie and music collection on your PC? If so, you may want to keep a collection of all album and DVD box art on your PC as well in order to more easily find what you’re looking for. If so, check out CoverDude, a free site which finds exactly what you’re looking for by grabbing the images from Amazon’s database (as many other applications do). You get album art in three different sizes, and in a couple of variations if they are available.
[tags]amazon, album art, graphics, music, dvd, box art[/tags]
Make your own ringtones…free
Submitted on February 2nd, 2006 by admin
Filed under Audio and Portables and Software and Windows
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Mobile phone carriers make billions (yes, that’s a B) of dollars every year from people who think it’s worth it to buy 30 second clips of songs for $3 USD a pop (my carrier only lets you keep them for 90 days…what a load of $h!+). If you’d like to get some custom ringtones on your phone but are unwilling to shell out money, check out HyperScore, a free application for Windows that lets you do just that. HyperScore was developed by MIT’s Media Lab, so you know it’s bound to have some cool features in it, and for the price, you really can’t go wrong.
[Via Make]
[tags]cellphone, ringtone, composition, music, freeware[/tags]
Converting MP3 to AAC
Submitted on January 26th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Audio
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Apple’s AAC format is becoming increasingly more popular (NOTE: it’s the format used to distribute music in iTunes) and so many people are slowly turning to it as the format of choice. I recently wanted to convert my (legal) MP3s into AAC to see if there would be any size differences. Want to know how to convert between the two formats? Read on!
The iTunes signature maker
Submitted on January 24th, 2006 by admin
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Anyone who regularly browses forums is sure to have a signature banner of some form, but if you wanted to be a little different, why not create an iTunes signature? Now you can with the iTunes Signature Maker. This little Java applet will scan you music collection and create a sound file a few seconds long which mixes some of your most listened to tunes. Maybe a little useless, but definitely neat.
[Via Metafilter]
[tags]itunes, signature, music[/tags]
Google adds Music Search
Submitted on December 18th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Audio and Services
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If you thought it wasn’t enough that Google already provides dozens of different services, you can add one more to their list, and this time, it’s music. Google Music Search launched a few days ago and it adds one more tool to the search giant’s belt in their effort to catalog the world’s information.
Like some of their other offerings, Music Search is integrated into the familar Google search box. Simply type the name of an artist, album, or song, and if Google recognizes it, you will get relevant information like album art, reviews, track listings, and even a link to buy the songs (with the iTunes Music Store seeming to be the preferred choice as far as I can tell). I tend to like quite a few obscure emo and indie bands and managed to find them without much of a problem.
TagWorld, building the social web
Submitted on December 16th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Storage and Bookmarking and Audio and Services
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When I first heard about TagWorld, I wasn’t quite sure what it was because the name, to me, implied that it was yet another social bookmarking service. While TagWorld does offer bookmarking capabilities (but no import or export functionality as far as I can tell), it is much more than that offering a wide range of features which in many ways makes it seem more like MySpace, particularly with the recent addition of a music section to TagWorld.
So what can you expect from the service? A little bit of everything really. TagWorld offers a pretty nice blogging platform which includes themes and widgets for various types of media, the ability to upload and share pictures a la Flickr, one gig of free file storage, and of course, the aforementioned social bookmarking and music sections, all of which can be tagged, and all of which is free. If you tend to like sites that do a bit of everything, TagWorld might be something you will enjoy.
Creating a protected audio CD
Submitted on December 15th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Audio and Security
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I doubt many of you really have a good reason to burn a CD with copy protection, but this article is interesting because it explains how it is done, and gives a couple of suggestions for how to get around it. If you have ended up with a CD that you were unable to rip on your computer, check some of the suggestions at the bottom. You will find the article over at Freedom to Tinker.
