Category Archives: Music

Buffering problem with xmms & http & .m3u & ubuntu

Posted on July 7, 2006 by slacy

I upgraded one of the machines I use to the “Breezy Badger” ubuntu release, and playback of mp3 files over http in xmms stopped working. Well, it was still working, but the audio sounded horrible — lots of glitching and … Continue reading →

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More Music

Posted on May 21, 2006 by slacy

LegalTorrents has hit a near home run again with the exegene archives torrent. Exegene is an independent netlabel set up in 2004 to promote the works of unsigned drum’n’bass and jungle artists worldwide, and this .torrent includes releases XGN001 through … Continue reading →

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Roxy Re-modeled

Posted on April 20, 2006 by slacy

I came across this great album called Roxy Re-modeled on EMusic the other day. Its a whole album of downtempo covers of all the best Roxy Music songs. Slave To Love, Avalon, Angel Eyes, etc. Starting at BasicLUX.com, there are … Continue reading →

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25 good mp3s from trackandfield.org.uk

Posted on March 29, 2006 by slacy

British label The Track & Field Organization has a set of free mp3s on their site.  Great artists, including Dressy Bessy, of Montreal, etc.  You can find the list of all the files here.

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Scraping insound.com (again)

Posted on March 19, 2006 by slacy

insound.com, an online record store, provides lots of free high quality mp3 samples. They’re always putting new stuff live, so its worth coming back and scraping them every once in a while. I wrote a simple perl script to do … Continue reading →

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More house music than you can handle.

Posted on March 18, 2006 by slacy

If you’re looking for house/dance music, you can get some from Beats In Space.  They’ve got gigs and gigs of downloads, just start mining at beatsinspace.net/audio.  These are recordings from a show on WNYU, so most mp3s are continuous mix, … Continue reading →

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Musicbrainz: Get realistic with your system requirements.

Posted on March 14, 2006 by slacy

I saw that musicbrainz, which is an automatic music identification and tagging system, just upgraded to a new acoustic fingerprinting technology provided by musicdns. The problem is that their “beta” code (picard-0.7b) has rediculous system requirements. Its not the hardware … Continue reading →

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Free music from slowdance.com

Posted on December 31, 2005 by slacy

The independent label slowdance has a bunch of mp3s on their site! Good stuff! You can see the complete list of URLs here. Fun stuff!

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mp3 encoding/transcoding commandline

Posted on December 28, 2005 by slacy

I was trying to remember this, and then I did: lame -preset <kbps> <input .wav> <output .mp3> Switching kbps to some interesting number (64,80,128, etc.) changes a bunch of parameters, like filtering, bitrate, etc. Its better than the “-vbr-new -V … Continue reading →

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Downloading some Desi

Posted on December 27, 2005 by slacy

So, you’re in the mood for some Indian dance music? Looking for some Bhangra? Bangla? Punjabi? Whatever! Just go to desitorrents, then use bugmenot to get a password, login, and then from the user page, you can “refer” yourself and … Continue reading →

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