May 4th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music
According to TorrentFreak, Nine Inch Nails (the only band that seems to get music 2.0) is offering a new single "Echoplex" for free on Facebook. I added myself as a fan of them on Facebook, but somehow missed the single - was there a trick to that? However, the single is also available for […]
April 9th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Movies, Music, Tech, Torrents
Tell me we’re not heading down a dangerous road: an article in today’s Guardian reports on how ISPs worldwide have turned into the police of the web, throttling, shifting, and killing packets left and right. In the U.S., Comcast has been in the news for their throttling of heavy BitTorrent users, but they are […]
April 8th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Apple, Microsoft, Music, Software
Oh, I needed this! I’ve got MP3s and MP4s and WMAs and god knows what else filling up gigs of storage at my house, thanks to a little sneakernet-ing not to mention ripping nearly my entire CD collection to my PC. And even though both Windows Media Player, iTunes, and my copy of Media […]
April 7th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music
The Guardian, which always offers an interesting perspective on UK web trends, posted an article today that caught my eye: "Home copying - burnt into teenage psyche." According to a new study by the industry group British Music Rights, 95% of 18-24 year-olds have engaged in "home copying," which includes things like copying files […]
March 3rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails promised that he would launch his next album, Ghosts I-IV, without a label. It appears he has been true to his word. The new album, which features 36 songs in total, can be purchased online in a variety of ways. Unlike Radiohead’s "In Rainbows" album, this new NIN […]
February 19th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Apple, Facebook, Gadgets, Music, Software, Video
A man who goes by the name of "DVD Jon," gained fame for cracking both the DVD code and Apple’s FairPlay. Now he’s offering a new software application, called DoubleTwist, that allows for sharing of any music, photo, or video file on any portable media player as well across social networks. The CEO of […]
February 4th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Gimado is yet another music search engine, somewhat like SeeqPod. The Gimado engine crawls the web in search of MP3 files and when you do a query, it will return results for songs that you can either play or download. Like many other music web search sites, a result doesn’t necessary mean the content […]
January 16th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Songbeat is a new desktop client application that allows you to search the internet for mp3s, stream them, and even download them to your computer. With Songbeat uses SeeqPod technology, which is a specialized search engine that finds any playable search results including video, slideshows, audio, interactive presentations, Adobe Flash demonstrations, animated graphics, […]
January 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Mp3Realm is a search engine just for mp3’s. You can search for songs by artist, title, genre, or album and you can filter out results by file duration, so you don’t end up with a clip when you were looking for the whole song. The site also indexes lyrics, so you can not only […]
December 30th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Mashups, Music, Search
Songbird is a free media player and web browser mashup developed by the folks who previously engineered both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. Both a media player and a platform, Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has a UI that looks very similar to that of the popular iTunes application. Like […]
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