Tag: mp3

Why I’m Making Status Quo Sound Crap

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In preparation for my travels this March, I’m making sure I have a bundle of playlists ready to transfer onto my MP3 Player of choice (likely to be the gen 2 iPod Nano), and one of them is proving interesting in terms of why music is so powerful. The playlist replicates one of my old C90 audio tapes which had two albums by Status Quo on it. One side had ‘Perfect Remedy’ and the other ‘Ain’t Complaining.’ The problem was that there was something missing from the music. It took me a while to figure out what it was. There

Shall We Revive The Mixtape For SXSW Interactive?

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An idea I’ve had for a while, now given an airing for the upcoming SXSW Interactive conference. I’m going to call it MP3 Shuffle, and throw together a quick WordPress Blog for the project (mp3shuffle.wordpress.com). [MP3 Shuffle is] a musical project at SXSW Interactive 2009, where attendees put together a Modern Mixtape on a USB Memory Stick, and swap it with others via a big cardboard box throughout the Conference. Please use #mp3shuffle to tag any posts, twitters or other online media discussing the project. You can throw questions about it, how it works, and everything else at me here,

UPnP, the Nokia N95 and Windows Media Player

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Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted a tutorial on linking the Nokia N95 (and other Nseries devices) to your Windows Media Player collection on your PC, using the Universal Plug and PLay (UPnP) protocols and Nokia’s Home Media client on the handset. Yes you can still hook up the phone over USB, or a bluetooth connection, but there’s something satisfying about browsing the full collection (about 20GB) on the handset, clicking copy, and it’s there, all without getting up from the sofa. The Home Media application reminds me a lot of Nokia’s first stab at a podcasting application –