Sony fantasy festival - a free, points based league game

Sony has just launched a competition called Fantasy Festival that's sounds quite cool.

Have you ever played Fantasy Football? Well this competition is similar, except this time you create your own ideal music festival line up instead of a Football team.

Sony's Fantasy Festival is a free, points based league game. The aim - to assemble the ultimate, imaginary festival line-up and gain as many points as possible through your acts' popularity in the real world (calculated by activity online).

You can create custom leagues, invite your friends and battle it out for festival supremacy.

Sony’s Fantasy Festival is a celebration of the fact that no one knows sound better than us and no one knows music better than you.

The person who creates the highest value Festival will be presented with a music lover's dream prize - four "money can't buy" tickets (including VIP accommodation, flights and spending money) to one of Europe's best festivals.

There are regular prizes for the best performing festivals along the way with weekly prizes from the Sony Audio range on offer throughout Fantasy Festival.

And, if you choose a band that is relatively unknown now, but starts to generate buzz over the next few months, we will give you kudos points in the main competition.

Here is a link to the site: [Fantasyfestival.lastfm.com] 

The first AIR app for Spotify is a DJ app - Cool!

via blog.jazzper.se

Spotify could work as a DJ tool for smaller parties and clubs with the impressive sound quality, if you are a premium user that is (320kb/s). By installing a little AIR app to your computer the app "scrobbles" to your personal DJ page (and also Last.fm) and the tracks you are listening to are updated real-time as Spotify track links.

This is a very interesting and cool idea.

Find more info about Spotify DJ: http://kb.clipotech.com/spotify_dj

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StreamDrag - Search and play music for free

StreamDrag lets you search and play music for free via YouTube. Cool idea.
Click here for more info

Software: KavaTunes - iTunes Web Jukebox

KavaTunes is a web jukebox for iTunes. Looks interesting. Too bad it's for Mac only.

via www.kavasoft.com KavaTunes creates interactive websites that look and work just like iTunes. Browse, search and play all your music. websites can stream your favorite playlists using your computer’s built-in web server. also add artwork to your music.

Mobility: Mobbler - last.fm scrobbler for S60 phones

Mobbler, Mobile Scrobbler, is a last.fm scrobbler that works with Symbian s60 smartphones. It allows you to scrobble from the Nokia s60 Music Player, both whist your listen to the tracks or you can store the tracks offline to be submitted later.

mobbler should be compatible with all s60 third edition mobile phones. Via

You can find more about Mobility if you do a Quality Search with Readle. Or you can make a search for mobile gadgets in the world's largest gadgets search engine - Readle Gadgets.

Clipped in FIREFOX on 2008-04-13 09:52:24, and stored in my Knowledge Base.

How to Download Free MP4 Music Videos and Movies to PSP

First things is that you will have to format a memory stick before you can use it. To format the memory stick, press the “home” button at the lower left of your psp screen. Then choose the option ’setting’ at the left arrow key.

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Global Grind

The Global Grind is a new start page offering that is specifically for the world of hip-hop. The site is currently in private beta. I got a chance to take it for a spin.The layout and design of Global Grind is very much like Pageflakes or Netvibes

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MP3 music - the dark age of recorded music

HotHardware - MP3 music - the dark age of recorded music: "'You can get used to awful,' says record producer Phil Ramone. 'You can appreciate nothing. We've done it with fast food. MP3s have won the war of the formats because of technology, not because of their audio quality. "It's like hearing through a screen door," says neuroscientist Daniel Levitin of McGill University, author of "This Is Your Brain on Music." "There are lines between me and what I want to see.'"

A Worldwide CD & DVD Duplication Services Directory Has Been Launched By Mig Music

 

A Worldwide CD & DVD Duplication Services Directory

which is especially for helping people find CD & DVD duplication and replication services in their local area has been launched by Mig Music.

The specialist directory lists services from all around the world including USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Europe and Asia. Its aim is to help anyone producing a music, film, video, software, multimedia, educational, small business, commercial business or personal project find a duplication service that is in their local state, county or province to help meet their duplication needs.

A lot of the services listed in the directory offer other kinds of related services such as CD & DVD mastering, DVD authoring, video and audio cassette duplication, video/film conversion and video production. The directory describes what types of services each one offers and includes a link to their website so it is easy to find out more.

Also included is a series of

Beginners Guides To CD & DVD Duplication Technology which have been written to help people new to this topic understand the technology/terminology better and in them there are some links to helpful resources where they can learn further about each topic. The topics covered in the beginners guides are: CD & DVD duplication, CD & DVD replication, CD & DVD mastering, digital audio editing, digital post production, digital video editing, DVD authoring, short run duplication, long run replication, business card replication, video & audio cassette duplication, CD & DVD fulfilment services, CD & DVD printers, CD & DVD publishers, thermal printing and mini CD replication.

http://www.migmusic.com

About Mig Music

Mig Music make music products such as synth sound collections for a variety of software/hardware synths and midi drum pattern collections to help people create music. We have had several reviews and news items printed about our music products in Future Music, Sound On Sound and Computer Music magazines over the years. For further information on our range of music products please visit our website

http://www.migmusic.com

aphex twin - windowlicker

Another video clip by Aphex Twin.

clipped from www.youtube.com windowlicker

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

Aphex Twin is one of my favorite artist. Watch this horror video clip...

clipped from www.youtube.com Aphex Twin-Come to Daddy

Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator, The Mix Tour 1991

Here is another Kraftwerk clip. This is one of my favorite Kraftwerk tracks.

clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com Live version of Pocket Calculator recorded during The Mix Tour @ Rolling Stone Theatre,Milan,Italy on 17/11/91

Kraftwerk Live

Watch this video clip of Kraftwerk, from the Mix Tour 1991.

clipped from www.youtube.com Kraftwerk-Computer Love, The Mix Tour 1991 Live version of Computer Love recorded during The Mix Tour @ Rolling Stone Theatre,Milan,Italy on 17/11/91

Audiobaba - next generation music search engine

clipped from audiobaba.com Finally, a search engine that can find new and interesting music. Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. Until now, there was no easy to way to browse for new music. Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different. Because deep down we just want more of the stuff we already like.

New Indaba Music Player

Indaba Music has released a new cool music player that makes it easier to find music.
From their blog:

clipped from www.indabamusic.com We're trying out something new on Indaba this week...we think it's a better way to sample and explore all the great original music Indaba members have posted to their profiles. The player (for now, you can get to it by clicking on "click me" at the top of your screen) randomly pulls sample work that Indaba members have uploaded to their profiles. We're going to add a lot more functionality in the future, but for now, you can see a lot of the member's info, click through to their profile, or skip to the next song.

TwittyTunes allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter

clipped from http://www.foxytunes.com/twittytunes/ TwittyTunes is a FoxyTunes companion Firefox extension - it allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter. As a bonus, you can also post the websites you're visiting, videos you're watching and more!

AnywhereCD - DRM FREE Music Store

clipped from www.anywherecd.com AnywhereCD is a music store where for the first time you'll find thousands of CD & MP3s from popular artists you know and love. All albums you buy you can listen to immediately, download MP3 files, plus you get the physical CD. With your support we hope to convince everyone to offer CDs with MP3s so please browse a chart or genre and buy some music.

Indaba Music - an international community of musicians

clipped from www.indabamusic.com clipped from www.indabamusic.com Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places. It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process. With recording hardware and software now available on almost any budget, it's easier than ever for artists of all levels and backgrounds to record and produce professional quality music. Artists are also harnessing the internet to get their music heard by more people than ever before. We think this is a big deal for the future of music, and we built Indaba to be an environment for artists to harness these trends and create music in new ways.

Finetune Desktop - access your playlists, favorite artists from your desktop

clipped from www.finetune.com Introducing the newest member of the Finetune family; Finetune Desktop! Now you can access your playlists, favorite artists, and more from our new player freeing your browser up for... browsing! The desktop player can do a couple cool new tricks. First, it can read your iTunes library to make it easy to fire up an "artist radio." Next, try starting a playlist from the browser. The desktop player is detected and your music plays from there. Close that browser and listen! Finetune Desktop has been developed as the first commercial music application using the new Adobe Apollo platform. So it's brand new... So new in fact that Adobe calls it a preview release. So bear with us as the platform matures... we think its pretty solid now but you might occationally see a bug or two.

MediaMaster - Your music anywhere

clipped from mediamaster.com Sign up and upload your digital music to MediaMaster. Publish your music collection on blogs and social networks with our widget - a great way for you and your friends to keep up to date on the latest music! Enjoy your entire music collection on many devices. Plus become a DJ - host your own radio station!