so, I signed up for mp3tunes.com. Upload all my music online, and be able to get to it from anywhere. 40 dollars a year. Im in the process of uploading, have been for 2 days now. Im on the “B”‘s 🙂 ….
Once I get it all up there, it will be sweet. I like it already, and if my drive on my music server crashes, no biggie 🙂
I had 130$ in gift cards at Best Buy, and it was burning a hold in my pocket. So today I decided to spend it. I purchased this Fast Track USB Recording device (100$), which has the ability to take 1/4 inch input, XLR Input, and then output to RCA or 1/8th inch, or just to the pc. It is a small package, and it says it comes with some basic recording software.
Currently I use Cakewalk Music Creator 2003 and it just isn’t working for me, so I have been eyeing up Sony ACID Music Studio (70$). I decided to purchase that, and with another certificate I had, I only paid 30$ total.
So I get home and get it all set up.
#1 – I cant get my acoustic/electric guitar to record in stereo (not a huge deal – but it sucks).
#2 – Fast Track USB Takes over my sound settings when it is plugged in so it is a debacle to try to configure things.
#3 – ACID Music Studio – on the back of the package one of the features is “Live Recording” – well once you install it, that is like not even apparent. I looked it the help and it is like “it is a small feature that has minimal ability to record”, etc – what BS!!
#4 – so I decide to install the Lite recorder that came with the USB Device. All in all this has the post potential but it is alot of bells and whistles to configure.
Bottom line – I have 70 dollar ACID software which is pretty much worthless, hopefully I can find a use for it. Hopefully also when I get some more patience I will figure out the USB recording device.
Imagine – what a great song. Perfect lyrics, melody, rhythm. I recorded this back on 12/19/2005 – I didn’t post it up because I used it as part of a Christmas gift to people, with a few other songs. Thought it would be good to post up 🙂
this is awesome. automate your grand piano to take soap messages and play the notes, and vice versa. totally cool.
MSDN TV Holiday Episode III (note: I couldn’t get this to work in firefox)
I wish there was some kind of Music API out there that you could pass in Artist name and Album Name and get the album art. There doesn’t really seem to be a good solution to this. CDDB SDK is a joke, MusicBrainz isn’t much better. Some people say use Amazon.com API, but that is also sketchy – It wasn’t built for looking up music, just products.
With all the music services out there, you would think there would be an easier way to get this meta info on artists/albums/tracks.
I was thinking – I could just screen scrape MSN Music – oh but wait, they don’t have all artists, just ones they sell (Try searching for “The Beatles” – it comes up with cover songs because they don’t sell any Beatles tracks).
Maybe I just don’t know if what I am looking for is out there, but it would sure make it easier to develop applications around your music library if there was.
Update: I decided to use the Amazon Web Service…It seems to work in the trials I am doing, we will see when I run over a music library.
Whew!!
I just went through my music library and tried to clean up some of the random songs. One song that was the hardest to find the answer to
What I Got (Sublime Cover)
That is all I had to go on. Listening to it, it was sung “A cappella” (acappella) . Searching the net, a lot of people said it was 311, which (lol) it is not, I am a huge 311 fan and trust me, it wasn’t 311.
In the Sublime version, they sing “I got a dalmation, I can still get high.
I can play the guitar like a mother fu*$in’ riot” but in the version I had to look up, they sing “I can play the guitar like a rubber duckin’ riot” so I searched on that, and still people thought it was 311!!
Finally found a message board where someone said it was the “The Stanford Harmonics” – good enough for me! If it isn’t them and someone knows what I am talking about please let me know!
They do start doing a medley at the end of the song, with like “No Diggity” by Blackstreet and “All Mixed Up” by 311, so that is maybe where people are getting confused.
The Stanford Harmonics
Update:
It’s on our myspace site now!
This is cool
Listening to the new 311 single, Don’t Tread On Me – over and over. Great tune. Ska/Rock. I am going to Chicago in August to see them play, and I can’t wait. New album comes out Aug 16th.
I’m at the halfway jam in Royalton, just saw foghat, going to blue oyster cult
What debacle, trying to parse out Mp3 ID3 Tags. There are Id3v1, Id3v2, and then a bunch of other abnormalites. Throw some WMA in there in you really have a mess. Parse it out of the file or shell out and get it from windows explorer, they still are goofed. What I wonder is how WMP10 gets the Album Artist from the CD. Because if you have a various artists cd, the tracks “Album Artist” meta data is all different. Goofy….
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