Mpire researcher on ipods

Gosh this is cool — mpire researcher. Web2.0 mining of the ebay transaction activity. In this case for ipod sales. Wow. Disclosure — we are an investor in these guys. But it is still cool.

Re-ripping everything lossless

After expunging the Netgear SC101 disaster from my network, I found that I had lost about 10% of my ripped CDs — notably all my Led Zep. So time to rerip. After reviewing all of Rich’s goodness on codecs, I decided it was time to go lossless. On my new WidowPC rig, I installed: * ...

Trying out Rhapsody

The economics of owning an iPod are finally getting to me. I collected a list of 30 artists/discs I wanted to try out recently, and it would have cost me like $300-500 to get all their cds, a lot of time to rip them, and then I might have liked only 20% of the music. ...

Software roundup 9/16

* On the writely beta — love it…wish that office was delivered and worked this way…i don’t want to deal with installs and with docs being stuck on a particular machine. * Wish I could get an invite to Flock * Need to try Atlas * Also Mint * Trying to decide if I like ...

Podcast Recording Setup

Two recos on podcast recording setups: * Rich’s recos — low end podcasting * Dan Bricklin’s setup — higher end. I haven’t done a podcast yet, and well, it just needs to get way easier and simpler than this if I am ever going to. I can’t see podcast creation ever becoming mainstream, certainly not ...

Making a multi-ipod household work

We love ipods so much that we have four in the house. And itunes really sucks at handling this. we like to keep all our music on one server and this just creates a legion of problems. Getting itunes on all machines to take notice of new music on the server. Sharing playlists across the ...

Tunebite

Paul Thurrott’s Internet Nexus — “Tunebite supports customer to hear their music everywhere they want. Did you purchase your music online and do you find it frustrating that you can?t listen to it wherever you want to? Tunebite is fully automated to free you from this annoyance when you listen to music. With Tunebite you ...

Prince

Last night at the Key — just awesome.

Xmas 2004 Wishlist — first entry

JamPlug Miniature Guitar Amplifier

Music Manipulation Weekend

Besides watching movies this weekend I also did a lot of mindless music bit twiddling. * Installed two new ipods. Downloaded the latest itunes and ipod drivers. Point itunes at my server with all my mp3s and had it crank away and import them all. While my laptop was doing this… * …I Installed ExactAudioCopy, ...

10 years gone

I?m worse at what I do best And for this gift I feel blessed Our little group has always been And always will until the end …

Prince's distribution experiments; open source Jay-Z

I don’t understand how the music industry is going to evolve, but I sure love artists that are attempting experiments and not just sitting back and letting the RIAA lob bombs at everyone. Kudos to Prince for his own music store, I loved his original body of work and am going to have to give ...

FindSounds

Nice pointer from John Battelle’s Searchblog to Findsounds — great for SFX.

Synthesized singers

Freaky, now you can create synthesized singers from correctly annotated lyrics and scores — Slashdot | Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software. I wonder what range of vocal performances this can encapsulate — I was listening to Led Zep/Robert Plant in the car this am, can you specify a vocal performance in his style? I am ...

Likely future of the recorded music business

I like what Olivier Travers has to say: “The cost is so low delivery is basically free on a per-song basis. In the face of changing consumer demand, no matter how hard RIAA members try to stick to their cartel solidarity, the same kind of pricing pressure that is destroying the long distance and international ...

Brian Briggs review of music stores

BBspot – Reviews: Digital Music Stores

Good read on music industry

bubblegeneration – strategy, business models and technology — found via slashdot.

Triple Door

Haven’t been yet but I hear it is great…the Triple Door

I've been wondering what to do with my pocketpc

PlanetGriff Home — this may be the answer

Elliott Smith.

10 Reasons Why Elliott Smith Was Cool