I think, after two years, my first album, “Waiting for My Train to Come“, is complete. I’ve removed the song “Come Out and Play” because it was intended to be more of a joke than a released song. I’ve also added about five songs that I’ve made over the past few months. I really feel [...]
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Posted 06 February 2007
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Problem: Many of my first audio projects were recorded with a sampling rate of 48 kHz but CDs are at 44.1 kHz. Also, Last.fm and other flash players only support 44.1 kHz sampling rates. Conclusion: Resample my songs from 48 to 44.1 kHz. The Hard Part: Resampling can be a dangerous task because there are [...]
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Posted 05 February 2007
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Definately one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while: my friend Mayowa started Mixtape Cult[ure] for introducing people to new, hip music via modern mixtapes! You can’t download any of the songs but you can listen to them on the site and get ideas as well as see a cool vintage-looking custom tape!
There’s not much to say about this because I don’t understand it much but if you are interested in music and math, this Harvard article could be worth reading. Using non-Euclidean geometry and a complex figure, borrowed from string theory, called an orbifold (which can have from two to an infinite number of dimensions, depending [...]
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Posted 28 January 2007
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Smart Tagging 1. Band names default to “&” instead of “and”. 2. Smart casing (Caps first letter of every word except things like “the”, “and”, “of” etc). 3. Reorganize directories after a tag change. Last.fm + iPod Plays are tracked on the iPod and synced to the Banshee database on iPod connect. Last.fm plugin catches [...]