Spotify Wrapped And The Need For Emotion
Spotify Unwrapped may offer a statistical look at your listening, but it can’t measure the emotional impact of music.
Tag: mp3
The SXSW Music Sampler for 2014 is now available
Over on SXSW Baby!, the annual 80 track sampler of the SXSW Music Festival has just been posted. Covering a wide range of musical styles, sounds, genres, and performers all playing in Austin this week and next, it brings together YouTube videos, Soundcloud clips, and other media in one handy file for you to unzip and pop on your current ‘device with an MP3 player’. DOWNLOAD the SXSW Baby! “Best of SXSW 2014″ sampler Mega.co.nz link (314 Mb) I wanted to create some great moments when listening to the songs, to have the music flow into each other, to have
Don’t forget to listen to Edinburgh Nights every week!
You might recall that after this year’s radio broadcast of the Edinburgh Fringe chat show came to the end, I decided to keep the format alive and showcase all the fun things in Edinburgh each week (that would have been the moment for a David Tennant-esque “I don’t want to go…”). It’s three months later, and Edinburgh Nights is still on the air, at 3pm every Friday, with a podcast available to listen again to the show (if you’re in Edinburgh), or to listen fresh to the whole hour if you are further afield. It’s a show that continues to evolve,
Winamp’s playlist runs out
Winamp to become null software on December 21st. Goodbye old friend, although you are now lurking in my C:/ and rarely called into action you never let the world down. Enjoy Silicon Heaven.
What happens after MP3?
If, as NPR manages to extrapolate, music formats change every thirty years, what will replace the MP3 file?
CD’s stand for Cool Delivery or something equally hip
Rob Manuel, in praise of CDs: CDs don’t pause between tracks like your iPod/Spotify. This matters on albums that are meant to run together. Say Dark Side of the Moon. These records are broken by this [MP3] tech. If I was Roger Waters I’d take a shit in Apple’s office and refuse to stop shitting until this was fixed. There are some more sensible reasons as well, but as a Mike Oldfield fan, I love this one. Of course Oldfield got around this by making Amarok just one track…
