#audio (180 links)
- Adactio: Journal—Re-finding five numbers adactio.com
Simon Singh’s Five Numbers radio series on huffduffer
- Festival cstr.ed.ac.uk
Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.
Si Begg's next release out for free. "Don't get me wrong I'm all for me making money out of my music. But as I say, i'm not exactly churning out platinum hit singles here. I'm thinking its more likely I'll make my money a) from possibly licensing the tracks to compilations b) PRS royalties from radio play etc c) maybe getting the tracks used in film and TV d) gig, remix and production work encouraged by generally raising my profile. All of which is more likely to happen the more people that get to hear and hopefully enjoy my music."
Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music
- Playdar - Music Content Resolver playdar.org
A music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.
Via roamin.
- S3 Radio - Permanent Bedtime s3fm.co.uk
- Type | A record label typerecords.com
New Type Records site. Nice.
- Kiddie Records Weekly kiddierecords.com
Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children's records. This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers. Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners.
DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere.
- Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data.
- Miami - Crossfade - Miami - Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application blogs.miaminewtimes.com · Archived on
This new Twitter app would basically broadcast 30 second updates of what Hawtin is playing live, allowing anyone following him on the network to see the playlist as it builds up track by track and in real time.
Via maebh.
- Bumps | Stones Throw Records stonesthrow.com
The three percussion experts behind the seminal indie rock / post rock band Tortoise showcase their rhythmical prowess, coming together for Bumps, the self-titled concept break beat record.
It’s refreshing to see such a big brand being so philanthropic, providing the sort of support most artists would be happy to be connected with, which is so often where big brands can get it wrong.
- » That Sony Meeting Song, by Toad songbytoad.com
"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.
- Et In Arcadia Ego - The Village Orchestra ruaridh.marciablaine.com
Liner notes for The Village Orchestra's Et In Arcadia Ego. The album is made from samples of tracks the artist really hates (Richard Marx, Chris Isaak, The Corrs, Bruce Hornsby and The Range etc)
- ioda: independent online distribution alliance iodalliance.com
Via sideb0ard.
- Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org
"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.
- Line: Q&A :::Proper Songs::: propersongs.blogspot.com
What I'm tried to do is combine the things I love about electronic music, especially proper techno and electro, with... proper songs.
...and here's the Line site, too.
- LJ Kruzer - Bandcamp audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.
"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."
- Rumblefish | Sonic Branding and Music Licensing rumblefish.com
Find and license music for any project—TV shows and advertisements, movies, websites, video games, podcasts, and more."
Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.
- People’s Music Store | New Music Ideas newmusicideas.com
"Is this the next killer site - or a bit of a dead duck? Let’s have your thoughts in the comments please." Look forward to the comments on this. Haven't spent enough time using PMS but like the concept and the people behind it are very friendly.
- Digital Media Insider Podcast 3: Singing Computers | O'Reilly Media digitalmedia.oreilly.com
- AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech: Demo research.att.com
Great quality from this. Shame samples are for "private, non-commercial use" but not overly surprising.
Podcasting plugin for WordPress
- Podcasting « WordPress Codex codex.wordpress.org
WordPress podcasting guide.
Promonet was designed to help you quickly find pre-cleared MP3s for use in your blog, podcast or music website.
- RESOURCES - ISRC - Home Page ifpi.org
"The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments." One suggested tag for this is "metacrap".
- Avant Garde Project - 20th Century Classical, Electroacoustic, Avant Garde Music Downloads avantgardeproject.org
A series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
An open collective of electronic musicians and visual artists who use the internet as their main means of communication. It is a network of groups and individuals who come together to make live electronic music events happen.
- Switch Audio File Conversion Software nch.com.au
A sound file format converter for Windows or Mac. Convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3, wav or wma.
- x0xb0x: Transistorize the World ladyada.net
A full reproduction of the original Roland TB-303 [...] The x0xb0x will never become 'discontinued,' because it is fully documented and released (under an appropriate open-source license). The PCB files (schematic, board, BOM and gerbers), firmware, software and panel DXFs are available for download.
- Brilliant Noise semiconductorfilms.com
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure.
Via headlessness.
- :: soundtransit :: home soundtransit.nl
A collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places.
- Bandcamp bandcamp.mu
Looks nice. "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL."
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.