December 20, 2009
Europe is home to some of the greatest musicians of all times. The old continent has been the leading edge in the music industry ever since the classics: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, just to name a few. Of course we must not forget more recent classics, including ABBA, A-ha, the Rolling Stones, the Scorpions, and the [...]
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December 19, 2009
In today’s world, music is omnipresent. It has swept into all aspects of our lives, be it TV, movies, shopping malls, public toilets, ringtones or waiting loops. Yet we still crave more. Music stimulates the brain. It’s this deep rooted cultural pleasure that drives us to consume more and more of it. If you’re sick [...]
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December 15, 2009
Last week we talked about the advantages of carrying your music with you on the go – not on an MP3 player, but on an ordinary USB stick. Accompanied with a portable audio application, you would be able to play your music anywhere, anytime; be it at home, at work, or even at your grandmother’s [...]
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December 13, 2009
A lot of people use USB MP3 players these days, but why not the other way around? Using a standard USB stick (often way cheaper), we can have our music on the go as well. With the lack of headphone support, you won’t be able to use it on the bus, or in the queue [...]
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December 10, 2009
MP3 – you keep hearing it all over. You realize that it has something to do with music or that it is an audio file extension. However, there are many audio file formats out there, but nothing as popular as MP3. What is MP3 format exactly? We will now take a deeper look into such [...]
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December 8, 2009
In our ever-modernizing age, things are constantly changing and being updated. What the standard was yesterday may not necessarily still be the standard today. All of these quick changes creates a market with tons and tons of options when it comes to every aspect of our lives. Music is no exception. For years, MP3′s were [...]
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December 8, 2009
In October 2007 the UK alternative rock band Radiohead shocked the music industry by providing a free mp3 full album download of their new album In Rainbows. Fans were asked to donate whatever they felt the album was worth. The standard CD release didn’t follow until weeks later. No other commercially successful band had ever [...]
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November 27, 2009
I love my audio CD collection. I really do. But carrying a hundred CDs with me on a vacation just so that I can listen to that one song when I have to, isn’t exactly my idea of fun. On the other hand, my iPod lets me take more than a hundred CDs worth of [...]
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October 31, 2009
Wow, my MP3 collection dating back to 1998 is in a pretty sorry condition. Tags are wrong or missing, song names are missing from the music track, bit rates are wacky. All of my files come from different locations or methods of ripping, so they are all different. One day, I will have some time [...]
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August 13, 2009
Looking through recent emails that I have received, I’ve noticed increasingly that a lot of our readers don’t know how to do certain things. One of them is how to rip a CD to MP3 so that is the topic of today’s article. As the DJ on the Romance Hour would say, “readers, this one is for [...]
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August 12, 2009
Do you download music from multiple sources? How about sources you don’t pay for? Even if all you’re doing is ripping CD’s onto your hard drive, odds are good you’ve got more than a few songs labeled something like “Track 06.mp3″ or “This song’s totally sweet.mp3″. How in the world are you supposed to remember [...]
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August 10, 2009
In these tough times for the economy, file sharers and students alike, it’s time to find out exactly how much the convenience of buying music from iTunes costs. To the untrained eye, buying Amazon MP3 music downloads might not immediately seem like a bargain ““ and let’s face it, it’s not as easy as clicking the [...]
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August 8, 2009
I’m a big fan of music, but who isn’t? I regularly browse local event lists to see what bands are playing in town, and if there is a band I don’t know I move over to their MySpace page to see whether I like them. However, I would much prefer to be ahead of things [...]
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August 4, 2009
The PSP isn’t just a handheld gaming console. You can use it to watch movies, browse the internet, or even read your RSS feeds. Listening to music on your PSP is as easy as on any mp3 player – plus you’ve got a whole arsenal of settings and a great visualizer to play with. The [...]
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July 20, 2009
Up until a few years ago, I had never really been into downloading music. Seriously – I was so old school. Give me one of those little radio-tuner players that look like a memory stick and I’m good to go. However, one night I was sitting at the computer and came across one of the [...]
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