Category Archives: Music

Buffering problem with xmms & http & .m3u & ubuntu

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

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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