Get back something physical in this increasingly virtual world. The latest experiment of “I Miss My Pencil” (embedded below) really struck a chord with me. It allows you to store music digitally and still have an analogue way of interacting with them. I had been thinking of ripping my entire CD collection and replacing it [...]
Every one who regularly runs or works out to music has probably thought about this. Wouldn’t it be cool to have the music change according to your training tempo? Well, Synchstep makes it possible. If you have an iPhone/iPod. It’s fairly cheap, it works with all your music and it works as advertized.
Well, it has finally come to this. I’ve put the last batch of vinyl records up for sale on eBay. After that, it’s all digital for me. While vinyl still survives for some, it’s a very distant memory for most. Hence this final ode to great trance and progressive that was once the exclusive domain [...]
For a long time, I’ve maintained a guide featuring some of my favorite online radio stations. Over the last 2 year, however, it had become a bit neglected. So today, I’m proud to present the updated 2010 version of the guide. I’ve purged the defunct stations, added a few new ones. I’ve also cleaned up [...]
About 10 days ago, De Morgen, a Belgian (Dutch) newspaper, published the 60 best dance tracks of the last 10 years. 6 DJs and radio celebrities take their pick of what was good in the last 10 years. Unlike what you might expect, the lists where not littered with fluffy pop stuff. Most of it [...]
A lot of the stuff I buy is just an impulse decision. One afternoon, I decide I’d like a new music cd for the car. I go out and return with 5 cd’s, a few games and maybe a book. These days, I don’t do it all that often anymore, mostly because I simply don’t [...]
A long time ago, I decided it was about time I got rid of all my vinyl records. I have a very modest collection containing mostly very high quality 12″ LPs. But my collection is just too small and my turntable too old that in practice, I hardly ever listen to them. It’s too bad, [...]
These days, I find myself stuck in traffic a whole lot more than I used to. I have found that an easy way to relieve the stress this induces, is to listen to podcasts. There are many out there, but here’s a short list of my favorites: This Week in Tech is the granddaddy of [...]
Once upon a time, I was really into beatmixing. I never felt like investing in turntables and huge unwieldy record collections, so I was an MP3 DJ. I used the very affordable and incredibly good AtomixMP3 program. However, now that I wanted to pick up the MP3 DJing once again, I noticed that the program [...]
Last week I showed the beginnings of my audio analysis program. This week it’s time to talk about the goals. My final goal is to do BPM calculation on various music sources. It should be fairly fast, but there’s no need for a realtime readout. I did some Google-ing, but couldn’t find any freely available [...]