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| Topic: Music |
3:55 pm EST, Nov 29, 2005 |
Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I'll like? Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
pretty neat Discover Music - Pandora |
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www.derekerdman.com - Roky Erickson Interview! |
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| Topic: Music |
1:22 pm EST, Mar 4, 2005 |
] This Roky Erickson interview is quite nice to read. You
] should read the entire thing. It really is. www.derekerdman.com - Roky Erickson Interview! |
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'Super Freak' RICK JAMES has died |
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| Topic: Music |
3:36 pm EDT, Aug 6, 2004 |
The creator of the hit "Super Freak" RICK JAMES has died, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to ET. No details regarding his death were immediately available and the investigation is ongoing. The 56-year-old funk star was best known for his 1981 hit "Super Freak." He later fell victim to a crack cocaine addiction that led to a conviction for assaulting and holding a woman against her will. In 1998, James suffered a stroke. Just two months ago, James took the stage to receive a special ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills. Ow. 'Super Freak' RICK JAMES has died |
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Music Recommendation System for iTunes |
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| Topic: Music |
12:53 am EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
The Music Recommendation System is an automated system that provides music recommendations specifically tailored to each user to find new music that they might like. This system, designed by students at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), operates by taking ratings from your own iTunes playlists and comparing them against other users who have used the recommendation system. Right now we have a very small number of users, and so the recommendations will most likely be laughable. However they will get better over time as more people enter into the system; meanwhile, enjoy while the numbers grow. Also cool. Music Recommendation System for iTunes |
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musicplasma : the music visual search engine |
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| Topic: Music |
12:12 am EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
Really pretty cool. Type in a band, and a visual graph of similar groups appears with indicators for popularity. musicplasma : the music visual search engine |
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Wired News | Music Icon Ray Charles Dies in California at Age 73 |
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| Topic: Music |
4:36 pm EDT, Jun 10, 2004 |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ray Charles, who overcame childhood poverty, blindness and heroin addiction to help create soul music and become one of America's most beloved singers, died on Thursday at the age of 73 after a long fight with liver disease, his spokesman said. Wired News | Music Icon Ray Charles Dies in California at Age 73 |
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MSNBC - Punk rock guitarist Robert Quine found dead |
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| Topic: Music |
7:14 pm EDT, Jun 9, 2004 |
He played with Richard Hell, Lou Reed and Tom Waits LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rocks most daring soloists, was found dead Saturday in his New York apartment. He was 61. MSNBC - Punk rock guitarist Robert Quine found dead |
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| Topic: Music |
2:36 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2004 |
When Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, they licensed a technology called "FairPlay" from a company called "Veridisc". FairPlay is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that limits a users rights on a digital media file that they've purchased and presumably downloaded. In the case of Apple's iTunes Music Store, when a user downloads an audio track from iTMS, it is a "Protected AAC Audio File". When used as intended, these files can only be played through the iTunes program itself. Furthermore, a particular computer must first be "authorized" to play the given file. FairPlay allows up to three computers and unlimited Apple iPods to be authorized to play the file. As DRM schemes go, FairPlay is only moderately offensive. So what will playfair do for you? The playfair program is quite simple. It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file. Most of the heavy lifting for this program is done by the mp4v2 and mp4ff libraries. More information about these libraries can be obtained from the FAAD project website. The original version of this program was derived from a Windows-only program called m4p2mp4. More information on this program can be found at the techfreaks website. Seems like something to download while you can. p l a y f a i r |
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