Friday, November 30, 2012

About Digital Music: AirPlay: Stream Digital Music to Multiple Rooms

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From Mark Harris, your Guide to Digital Music

In this week's edition of the Digital Music newsletter:

  • AirPlay: Multi-room Music Streaming Using Your iOS Device.
  • Top 4 Earbuds: High Quality In-ear Headphones.
  • Top 1TB External Hard Drives.
  • Digital Music FAQ: What is Scrobbling all About?


AirPlay: Multi-room Music Streaming Using Your iOS Device

AirPlay is Apple's wireless solution that makes it easy to share your digital music, videos, photos, and other digital media content around your home. If you've got an AirPlay sender, like an iPhone, then did you know it can be used to stream music to multiple rooms? Locating AirPlay compatible speakers in the rooms that you want digital music streamed, suddenly gives you... Read more

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Top 4 Earbuds: High Quality In-ear Headphones

If you need to replace your current set of earbuds or are thinking of buying some as a gift, then this guide showcases a selection of earphones that give top-quality sound reproduction -- far superior than the ones that usually come with electronic gadgets like MP3 players, smartphones, and other devices. Read more

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Top 1TB External Hard Drives

If you have invested a lot of time and money into building up a media library, then you'll want to make sure that you have a backup just in case disaster strikes. It's a fact of life that your computer's hard drive will eventually fail, and so backing up your digital music, videos, photos, and other important files is essential. Here is a list (in no particular order) of 1TB hard drives that have been selected for their performance, features, and value for money. Read more

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Digital Music FAQ: What is Scrobbling all About?

Find out what Last.fm's scrobbling is and how it is used with their streaming music service. Read more


 


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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

About Rap / Hip-Hop: Artists to Watch: Connor Evans, All Day

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From Henry Adaso, your Guide to Rap / Hip-Hop
Why, hello there? I'd like to introduce you to two hip-hop acts on the rise right now. First up, Cali rookie Connor Evans. Second, the newly minted duo of Preemo and Tawn P, collectively named All Day. Both are well worth visiting, so go ahead and check them out and tell me what you think. Cheers.

Artist to Watch: All Day
What makes a great rap group? Is it chemistry? Cohesion? Diversity? A fusion of all three? The answer is hazy, sort of like... Read more

Connor Evans: #GreenLightLife
Always eager to trumpet anything with a modicum of charm, I decide to visit Connor Evans' #GreenLightLife and it turns out to be a... Read more

New Music: Rakim - "New York to Cali"
"New York to Cali" is a previously unreleased gem from The Master-era Rakim. ... Read more

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Friday, November 23, 2012

About Digital Music: USB Turntables: Rediscover Your Old Records

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In this week's edition of the Digital Music newsletter:

  • USB Turntables: Rediscover Your Old Record Collection.
  • iTunes LP: A Virtual Way to Enjoy a Vinyl Album?
  • Top Album Art Websites.
  • MP3Gain: Cleaning up Sound Distortion in Your MP3s.


USB Turntables: Rediscover Your Old Record Collection

If you're old enough to remember when vinyl was king, then you might still have a record collection somewhere (like in the attic). Modern stereo systems seldom come with turntables and so over time you may have simply lost touch with your sizable collection of classic songs. Online music services like iTunes, Amazon MP3, etc., boast huge libraries that cover many genres and eras, but even these can fall short when it comes to the vintage classics in your vinyl collection. You may even find that some of your vinyl-based music never... Read more

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iTunes LP: A Virtual Way to Enjoy a Vinyl Album?

To try and recapture the experience of owning physical albums like vinyl, Apple invented their iTunes LP format to fill this gap in the market. The company also added more modern multimedia benefits (almost DVD-like) to their iTunes LP standard such as: interactive menus, music videos, and animated lyrics. For more information, read this iTunes LP definition article. Read more

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Top Album Art Websites

You may think that software media players like iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc., can find and download all the album art you need for your digital music library. However, there are times when you'll need to look further afield in order to successfully populate your music collection with the right CD covers. Read more

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MP3Gain Tutorial: Cleaning up Sound Distortion in Your MP3s

Whether you have captured streaming audio, digitized music from vinyl record/analog tape, or even recorded your own voice via a microphone, there can be instances when your digital audio captures can suffer from audio clipping. Find out how you can use MP3Gain to quickly normalize problematic digital audio files in this tutorial. Read more

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