multimedia

4 Ways One Database Would Help Music Fans, Industry

You'd think, after finishing the final and the course, adding to the 202 blog would be the last thing on anyone's mind. But I saw this article and reflexively fired up the "Create Content" form, because this is essential 202, in my mind. It helped me realize why I've never been comfortable with music subscription services (I have a curated library that I don't want to get stuck behind a pay wall) and how musicians and industry would be better off if they could all agree to agree, for once.

Shazam vs. Midomi

Jessica did a wonderful job with the Shazam / Midomi demo.

For those intertested, here's a good article that compares the feature set of Shazam vs. Midomi...

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/11/05/app-app-shazam-midomi/

Meaning and use - music in the age of information

I'm finally getting around to posting this link to a piece that ran in the New Yorker back in August.  The column starts out as a discussion of the considerable recent advances in encoding and cleansing music in digital form: more than ever, it is possible to enhance the depth and quality of the captured performances and to enrich the sense of the time and place of those performances while eliminating the "noise" that obscures that richness.&#16

Syndicate content