I created this screencast using Camtasia - a pretty great piece of software. This is my second attempt at doing this - the first one I built with Captivate which is cool but doesn’t let you export to anything but SWF… - so I would’ve needed to screencast my screencast if I wanted [...]

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This is the new Music Blogs application for Facebook. It’s a great way to discover new music.

When you first load the app, it randomly chooses one of the most popular music blogs on the web and starts playing back the music. Behind the scenes, the application is crawling that blog, grabbing all the [...]

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The defacto musicblog aggregrator the Hype Machine has updated their site with a new look and feel, including personalized user accounts which let users “love” their favourite tracks and share them with others.
It’s been interesting to watch the progression of the site over the last couple weeks since they released the update. The initial [...]

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Downtown Chicago was abuzz last week as tech savvy developers with shiny heads and expanding waistlines took over several of the cities finest hotels for the three day Adobefest that was MAX 2007.
The newly completed McCormick Place West was the locus of activity and Adobe put on a pretty good show. It all started [...]

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The MIR propellerheads of the world are gearing up for ISMIR 2007 later this week, the uber conference for music similarity geeks.  Seeing as the timing is right, I thought I would present an example of why this research can be difficult.  I’m interested in hearing any thoughts on the example - the good, the bad and the ugly, and if you have a better one.
The purpose of a [...]

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Digital music has changed the world.  It has never been easier to feed your music addiction. 
I personally will never understand why people have bought over 3 billion tracks at iTunes when they can get a much better deal using subscription services like Yahoo! Music Unlimited, which cost less per month than the price of a single drink [...]

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If you’ve ever seen KT Tunstall perform live, you’ve been witness to the amazing electronic (g)eargasm that is her one woman show… courtesy of the excellent repoire she has established with the various Japanese guitar toys she uses to create her music. it’s really quite amazing to see. Kate uses an [...]

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Do you host mp3 files on your music blog? If so - please add a /crossdomain.xml file to your webserver root - ala http://musiclibre.org/crossdomain.xml
The crossdomain file grants permission for Adobe Flash applications to read files from your server, and more specifically - to be able to read ID3 tags located in the mp3 files [...]

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Joe pointed this Wired article on starting an mp3 blog out to me today:
Starting a music blog is a mere matter of finding a host for your tracks and posting away. Just one catch: You’ll probably end up breaking the law. Try as you may, you won’t be able to secure permission for every song [...]

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I put together a music blogs browser which lets you listen to music from some of the most popular mp3 blog sites on the net in a single click. I’m actually really enjoying using it as a way to get turned on to new music.
One of my personal favourites is Scissorkick, which I was [...]

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