August 6, 2010
If you’re a bit of an audiophile, then you’ll have no doubt sacrificed a couple of gigabytes for some wonderful lossless FLAC files. For newbies, FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec and is used as a high-quality alternative to lossy audio formats such as MP3 and AAC. FLAC files are compressed by 30-50% of [...]
June 25, 2010
The vuvuzela is a cheap plastic horn that’s recently begotten international fame during the football World Cup in South Africa. Most people agree that a vuvuzela noise mildly irritating – as if there were a mosquito stuck in your ear. Multiplied by the thousands, it produces a deep, hypnotic rumble, straight from the gates of [...]
June 24, 2010
It isn’t always evident to find out the name of a song. Whether you hear it playing on the radio, at a party, or simply have had it stuck in your head for the past few days. With the help of a computer or cellphone, you can usually find a song title, be it via [...]
May 10, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week we are taking one software category from CNet and listing the top ten most downloaded apps in it. This week we will be looking at MP3 & audio software. These are the apps that we use to convert, organize or listen to [...]
May 6, 2010
As a blogger and a researcher, I have to conduct a lot of interviews. Some months I’ve conducted two or three interviews a week, and many of those are recorded interviews, because many people don’t have time to answer questions via email. One of the nice things about recorded interviews is that they work well [...]
May 5, 2010
Today I got tasked with finding a program that would merge music tracks together for free. I quickly found an application that Mark wrote for MakeUseOf on MergeMP3. After downloading and using MergeMP3 I got a call that they also wanted to split several music tracks into smaller pieces. I found several tools that do [...]
April 26, 2010
For the audiophile, FLAC, short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an absolute gift. Since the codec is open source, software that will convert your CDs into this widely supported format is free and easy to find. Many popular music players, save a few large exceptions, such as iTunes, support FLAC natively. Since FLACs are [...]
April 11, 2010
Online resources for discovering and downloading new music appear to be endless. And once you have discovered one that has everything you want, it’s gone. They come and go like the seasons. Some are legal, most are not. The best way to keep up with the latest single or album releases, tour dates, and the [...]
March 25, 2010
Podcasts were the medium of the future ten years ago. The technology, which uses RSS feeds to push audio or video directly to a user’s desktop, seems today to be largely replaced by browser-based video sites including YouTube and Hulu. Don’t be fooled, however: there are still plenty of quality podcasts out there if you [...]
March 1, 2010
If Apple”˜s default audio recorder, Voice Memo, were in the boxing ring with Blue Microphone’s Blue FiRe [iTunes link] iPhone and iPod app recorder, Apple’s Memo would be TKOed in the first round. Even though you may not need a lot of advance features in an audio recorder for iPhone, when a company like Blue [...]
