In seguito al mio alberino sui video giochi liberi mp3 si rimescola (dove tutto è andato male!), Ho pensato che accennassi un certo gioco e musica del demoscene è effluito stazioni.

Che cosa segue sono i collegamenti alle pagine anteriori di questi Web site. Quale flusso radiofonico scegliete ascoltare la volontà dipendere sopra se avete a banda larga, legano o preferiscono un giocatore con un cavo del Java - ogni luogo offre le combinazioni differenti. Scegliere il collegamento adatto per giocare il flusso audio quando ottenete là; dirà solitamente che “ascolta qui„ o qualche cosa di simile. I Web site inoltre hanno buoni FAQ graziosi se rimanete incastrati. Generalmente, un giocatore di musica gradisce i iTunes, Winamp o Amarok sarà tutto che dobbiate ascoltare queste stazioni. Ad una spinta assoluta, se non potete convincerli a giocare, metterselo in contatto con me per le più informazioni e farà il mio la cosa migliore per aiutare.

Quando sono caduto vicino a SLAY la radio oggi (aria dentro ora ed ottiene un pacchetto libero di TCP, dicono - come potreste rifiutare? ) ci era 142 genti che ascoltano la stazione! SLAY le radiodiffusioni radiofoniche da Gothenburg, Svezia e pricipalmente i giochi si rimescola di musica del Commodore 64 (C64) da Remix.Kwed.Org (RKO). Ci sono inoltre esposizioni in tensione in cui un DJ giocherà le piste da RKO, ma possono aumentare questi giocando l'altra musica dai giochi e dal demoscene, insieme alle arie che non hanno iniziato sul C64.

La radio del Internet di Demoscene della nettarina è una stazione effluita francese che è stata a lungo intorno. Rinvia 19.000 canzoni del demoscene ed ha quasi 3.000 membri. Ci erano 57 ascoltatori in linea quando ho visitato. I membri possono invitare le piste specifiche per essere giocato. Incidentalmente, la nettarina funziona in collaborazione con conservazione di musica del Amiga (ampère), che sta compilando mai la base di dati più grande e più completa circa i musicisti del Amiga.

Kohina, una stazione finlandese, i giochi una miscela del calcolatore del bit di oldschool 8 e 16, una musica della sezione comandi e del arcade e nuovi rilasci di scena. Ci erano 18 ascoltatori quando ho visitato. Kohina è buono degno ascoltare se vi ricordate di questo roba dal arou di prima volta nd, like me, and you’re nostalgic, or if you wonder what computer musicians were able to do with little computer memory but with great enthusiasm.

A relative newcomer is BitJam, a station from Germany which plays only demoscene or related material. The highest number of listeners so far has been 34, and there were 13 listening when I was there, but that’s fine for a new station which has yet to receive much exposure. I particularly like the way the site shows little flags beside the musicians so that you can see where they’re from.

I hope you enjoy listening to these stations, and as a tip, remember to bookmark them in your music player in case you want to listen to them again. You’re sure to find something fresh on each visit.

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Sheesh.

I had almost completed a lengthy post recommending websites where people could download remixes of video game music, when Firefox (and ScribeFire) crashed and I lost the whole damned thing. I’m not happy.

Anyhow, to cut to the chase, I had been about to recommend these four excellent sources of free remixes: OverClocked ReMix, Remix.Kwed.Org, AmigaRemixand Remix64.

Go. Download. MP3s. There. Now.

They’re brilliant. Off the beaten track, high quality, totally fresh and free. Why not? Please download the bittorrents from the first two sites if you want a lot of music. OverClocked ReMix bittorrents and Remix.Kwed.Org bittorrents. Essential.

Last.fm video game remixes tag radio is available too.

Thanks are due to RT Cunningham over at Untwisted Vortex for encouraging me to write more about the Commodore 64.

Out.

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The world becomes more bizarre by the day.

A man was arrested in Denver, US, and held on two counts of harassment for telling two women they were “extremely beautiful”.

NPR reports that the most popular guitar tutor on YouTube was accused of copyright infringement for showing his pupils how to play a Rolling Stones song on the guitar. Why not kill off a future source of income, RIAA? Makes perfect sense to them somehow, I suppose.

Finally, on a related note (har har), James Hetfield of Metallica was apparently detained at Luton Airport, allegedly because of his “Taliban-like beard”.

Insanity.

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Welcome to another blog walkabout! I missed last week’s walkabout due to other pressures, but things have returned to normal, I think.

First stop today is Blue Beaver Beer, from Tim Ebl and Ernie Wiegand in Alberta, Canada. I had to laugh at the scan of a page from a local newspaper that appeared to show something unusual on the menu. Ewwww! Thankfully, appearances can be deceptive. There’s a lesson in design for all of us there.

The mysterious Lis, from Singapore, takes care of three blogs (where do people find the time?). About Every Little Thing is an eclectic melting pot of random facts, opinions and humour. The amount of planning Lis put into preparing herself to watch Apocalypto is beyond reproach, as is her review of the movie. Brilliantly funny stuff!

Nafurai is an excellent blog on the subject of blogging. The author, Maurizio from Switzerland, is doing a fascinating project compiling a database of WordPress and Blogger blogs with a custom-built Java application. At the time of writing, he has over 112,000 blogs in the database. Yikes!

Alicia Sparks is a freelance writer and editor who writes both Mental Health Notes and Writing Spark. She’s running a poll on the subject of books versus movie adaptations. Why not hop over there and vote? I voted “there have only been a few movies that have done the books justice”. Indeed, I can hardly think of any.

Odlum Online is a technical blog written by Andrew Odlum from the US. It covers web design and development. This is a superb resource for CSS techniques such as explaining how to float an image into a paragraph of text. Indispensable.

Over to Morocco now, for Maryam Montague’s My Marrakesh. This is gorgeous, filled with exotic photographs and accompanied by interesting narrative. A truly beautiful travel blog. I can also recommend Maryam’s photographs on Flickr; they’re so colourful you can almost feel the heat.

Neria Sebastien from St Lucia in the Caribbean runs Neria’s Whirl. Neria gives us a mix of lots of different news - celebrities, sport, health, weird news and a sprinkling of video discoveries. It was the first time I’d heard about high heels for women drivers, which I think are a great idea.

Susan Suarez has a self-named blog which has been set up to help others build traffic and revenue from their own blogs. In addition, she also runs Got2BeGreen, a solid, practical environmental resource, and Housing Lot Online, for people looking for a mortgage or home loan. All three are full of useful, practical advice, and are also fine examples of clean web design.

Riley Central is run by Damien Riley from California, USA. I loved looking at his photographs of Victorville, and enjoyed reading the description of the town in which he lives. Damien is another blogger who demonstrates good web design, too.

Let’s close with today’s second blog from Singapore, Missy Zee’s Zynamic Gala. I like how she uses the crime metaphor throughout the site: confessions, witnesses, close-up evidence. Very clever. Missy has just been through LASIK surgery on both eyes. I’m so glad to hear she’s feeling better, and that all went as planned.

Well, that’s all for today, folks. Have a good week!

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What’s with the folk that do captions at the BBC? Only yesterday, I mentioned that the BBC will be using MusicBrainz metadata for the artists and track names mentioned on its music website. And yet they somehow managed to misspell the names of two of the artists at one of the biggest series of gigs on the planet, Live Earth. They had Rihanna listed as “Rhianna” and Alicia Keys named as “Alicia Keyes”.

Unfortunately I can’t back this up with footage from YouTube, as I can only find US recordings there with both singers correctly named. But I know what I saw. You must be able to do better than this, BBC. Didn’t you even take the teeniest peek at the MusicBrainz site before typing in the artists’ names?

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I’ve been using the free MusicBrainz database to tag and name my mp3 files for a while now. MusicBrainz is an interactive service where a software client, Picard, compares the “acoustic fingerprints” of a group of mp3 files saved on your hard disk with those fingerprints already uploaded to its servers by other members of the MusicBrainz community. If these fingerprints match, Picard can automatically write the tags to the mp3s. This ensures that your music player (whether iTunes, Winamp, Amarok or whatever) displays the correct information about the track it’s playing - artist, title, year etc.

This tagging information becomes particularly useful if you have an account with Last.fm, where it’s easy to find ten or more different names for a popular track. Having more than one name for a track or song misrepresents the number of times it has been played on the Last.fm database. For example, this search shows how many times The Beatles track “I Am the Walrus” has been tagged incorrectly.

More information about MusicBrainz can be found here.

For adding album artwork and any additional tags not supported by MusicBrainz to the tracks (for example, genre is unsupported by MusicBrainz because it’s subjective depending on the listener) I recommend Softpointer’s Tag&Rename tag editor (Windows, shareware, 30 day trial period, US $29.95 to register). I’d also suggest downloading the free AudioShell shell extension for Windows while you’re there.

As an interesting side note to all of this, the BBC has recently announced that it will be using information taken from the MusicBrainz database to underpin the artist and album information on the BBC Music website. An entry on the MusicBrainz wiki explains in more detail how this will work.

Technorati Tags: audio, bbc, mp3, music, musicbrainz

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I discovered some shiny new stuff on the web today.

First up, while chatting on Google Talk with Syafrizal Abu Mansor, who runs both Syaf the Geek and My Journey Into Life, Syaf mentioned two services which I hadn’t heard of: LinkyLoveArmy and Payu2blog. Both of these are ways of earning additional income.

I haven’t tried these; the only monetization I have in place at The Far Corner is Google AdSense. But I’d be interested to hear from anyone using either of these services - have you made any money using them?

Secondly, thanks to Chris Garrett of chrisg.com for sending me an invite to Pownce. Unfortunately, either Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) or the Pownce .air file crashes on me every time I run it (”the instruction at blah blah referenced the memory at blah blah. Click on OK to terminate the program”). Well, sure, it’s in alpha, but I think the folk at Pownce need to do a little better than that. And I was looking forward so much to trying it.

OK, back to watching the torrential river of rain in the street. Another weekend of typical Scottish weather, then…

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