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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 weird high pitched noises about 2 or 3 times a second. The weird part was [...]
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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 XGN028, plus a remix release and a compilation, showcasing d&b artists such as Alpha Omega, [...]
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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 lots of good links to more downtempo music stores, (dogsonacid, beatport, newsoundtheory) but I haven’t [...]
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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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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 this automatically. Note that this is the single largest scrape in my whole music collection [...]
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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, approximately 1 hour long, usualy in 2 parts. Voted a “Best Of…” by the Village [...]
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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 thats ridiculous — its the software. They require beta versions of basically every UI toolkit [...]
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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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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 …” style, because it encapsulates all those parameters. It does use the “abr” style encoding, [...]
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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 get a login on the site. Easy! Unlimited .torrents of Bollywood videos, music, movies, etc!
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