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Amazing auditory illusion - Boing Boing
First of all, is it really an illusion? I though illusions had something to do with sight, but answers.com says an illusion is “An erroneous perception of reality.”
I guess it is since even as auditory, it is making you percieve it incorrectly.
Anyway, check out the video, but you really do [...]
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181.FM - Your Lifestyle… Your Music
I listen to streaming radio @ work for many reasons; I don’t have to bring music from home, I don’t have to worry too much about listening to the same song over and over, I can change genres instantly, and I get to hear new music or music I probably [...]
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The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
Producers also now alter the way they mix albums to compensate for the limitations of MP3 sound. “You have to be aware of how people will hear music, and pretty much everyone is listening to MP3,” says producer Butch Vig, a member of Garbage and the producer of [...]
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Amazon.com MP3 Downloads: Popular music, classical music, new releases and more, in MP3 format
Somebody finally does it right, and legitimately.
Its also cheaper than iTunes crap.
I want to hear music randomly, and they didn’t have the first song I thought of, Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah but they did have some other music from [...]
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ipodminusitunes: Apple cuts us off
So, it’s finally happened. Unhappy with other media players being better than iTunes, Apple have apparently decided to stop them from working with the new range of iPods.
I hate iTunes, so I only use it to initialize a formatted ipod (for some reason winamp can’t do it). Apparently they are trying [...]
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StoryCorps® - About
StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record one another’s stories in sound.
Our Vision
StoryCorps is modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews with everyday Americans across the country were recorded. These recordings remain the single [...]
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Article Detail - Gadgets news - QJ.NET
So you thought you’ve pirated everything huh?
Totally awesome idea, i wonder how well the silicon mold actually gets into the nooks and crannies of the disk.
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Savenetradio.org
Congress and SoundExchange have heard loud and clear the amazing outpouring of support for Internet radio from webcasters, listeners and the thousands of artists they support. A commitment has been made to negotiate reasonable royalties, recognizing the industry’s long-term value and its still-developing revenue potential.
During negotiations SoundExchange committed temporarily not to enforce the new royalty [...]
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Savenetradio.org
We listen to internets radio all day every day at work so I know I would miss it. Call your congresscritter today!
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Music with cars or trains attached
Each car stereo in the parking space will receive only one part of the live sound, as drums, guitar and vocals will each have their own radio frequency. Participating car owners will assume the role of musician, producer and sound technician.
basically this is really awesome
multi-channel radio with a crazy “uber [...]
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Music Blog | unguided
Artist: Katie Melua
Artist Website: http://www.katiemelua.com
Album Name: Piece by Piece
Song Title: I Cried for You (Mary's Song)
Song Duration: 3:40
Song Track Number: 11 of 12
Also listening to:
her entire album
chasing cars, a bunch
stephen lynch
Fort minor - Where'd You Go (feat. Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga)
hours and hours other other music from my ipod and CDs [...]
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I have been listening to all kinds of stuff lately, and here is some of it:
www.myspace.com/snowpatrol
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars: you can listen to it on myspace, its a great song. I found this band because they play a couple songs for the Grey’s Anatomy TV series
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars - Acoustic Video
Pink - [...]
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ochen k.
Here’s the 10-second version:
Most humans are born with the ability to hear frequencies from about 20 Hz (low) up to 20,000 Hz (high) but that range shrinks as we get older. A guy in England figured that meant kids can hear things adults can’t - specifically, very high frequencies. He created a device that [...]
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apparently this was made almost a month ago and I somehow managed to not see it until just now. below is a comment that pretty much summarizes the perfect match of song and video clips
YouTube - Brokeback Mountain - Fanvid: Good-bye My Lover
This is the most perfect romantic thing I have ever seen. Well not [...]
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quiet american
Surely you can spare a minute to clean your ears? Take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living.
One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.
peaceful, really tranquil sounds from all over, plus he has field recordings from all over the world, [...]
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