Audio & Music Publishing - Articles Archive
from April 22, 2005 to January 27, 2004
Indy is a music discovery tool. Its goal is to give independent (indy) musicians (those not signed to a record label) a great new way to promote their music and to create a whole new way for people to discover music that they'll love.
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Robin Good - April 22, 2005
"In general, filmmakers have been very slow to effectively use the web. The main problem is that we don't think of the web as an integral part of the filmmaking process. Today, a filmmaker might have a website, a Quicktime trailer of the film, some press ... read more
Robin Good - April 19, 2005
I have been paying close attention to Mercora, the new private personal radio network in which anyone can be a radio station for over a couple of months now, and nonetheless the many improvements that still need to be made to make this a killer app, ... read more
Robin Good - April 11, 2005
If executing a little Perl script doesn't scare you off, if you have your own web server running and if you're interested to turn your MP3 recordings into a podcast, then read on.
Photo credit: by Bianca De Blok
Kenward Bradley, a Chicago-based programmer with a passion for ... read more
Robin Good - February 28, 2005
On MasterViews International presentation expert Chiara Monetti points at a little tool that allows you to add a voice-over to images and movies. The best part about DubIt Audio Editor is that it is provided for free by TechSmith, whose flagships SnagIt and Camtasia Studio have ... read more
Chiara Monetti - MasterViews International - February 26, 2005
If you ever wanted to attend a concert, but for some reason were unable to go and see it live, then watching it live through your Web browser, from wherever you happen to be, must be a good second-best.
Being able to pay for the experience via ... read more
Robin Good - February 17, 2005
WARNING: THIS DEVICE'S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD'S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR ... read more
Cory Doctorow - http://www.boingboing.net/ - January 4, 2005
"Do you have a killer guitar riff but can't sing to save your life? Do you dream of playing in a band but can't find the time? If so, this is the place for you.
MyVirtualBand.com is on a mission to bring together "virtual bands" comprised of ... read more
Robin Good - December 21, 2004
CNet is offering a new course for everyone who wants to learn or update his fundamental digital audio skills.
In five lessons, the technology publisher who has assigned the delivery of this course to digital music expert Andrew Webster, will put in the condition to copy ... read more
Robin Good - December 16, 2004
What is so great about radio and audio communications, versus the written ones, is that you can actually hear the "true" voice of the people involved. While it may take longer to listen to a radio interview or to a so-called podcast (Internet on-demand commcasting) rather ... read more
Robin Good - December 15, 2004
Podcasting is the emerging smarter on-demand broadcasting paradigm emerging from the blogosphere.
How do you do it?
You simply make an audio recording of an interview, a new track you are working on, a radio show you want to broadcast on the Internet and then you ... read more
Robin Good Recommends - November 1, 2004
The ever resourceful digital media blogger, Jake Ludington, has written a highly informative and user-friendly guide on how to transfer and use digital audio files from iPodder to any Windows-based media player and has published the screenshot-filled tutorial on his site Mediablab.
Since the whole Podcasting phenomenum ... read more
Robin Good - October 25, 2004
Chris Pirillo has put together a great introduction to what podcasting is. If you have an audio enabled personal computer and are interested in the newest online trend you may really want to listen to this excellent 45-minute intro to podcasting.
Podcasting is all the rage ... read more
Robin Good Recommends - October 13, 2004
"Most visitors to your website are using computers with audio capabilities. Recently introduced techniques make it easy to take advantage of this capability.
In the past, web audio was primarily decorative, consisting of musical fanfares or other clichéd sound effects. Now, you can use audio to ... read more
Roger C. Parker - Woosy Info - August 26, 2004
The Internet tuner or something very much like it will do for audiovisual media what the Web did for print – make it immediately accessible from anywhere, at any time, for any reason. Because of the Web, libraries are transforming from repositories of knowledge into centers ... read more
Mark Pesce - Disinformation - July 15, 2004
CoolToolAwards has always some interesting new little tools that can be of great help to independent publishers and emarketers alike.
If you want a turnkey solution to add streaming audio to your Web pages, there are indeed several solutions out there.
AudioGenerator ($ 29.95/month) provides you ... read more
Robin Good Recommends - July 9, 2004
"Independent musicians are augmenting traditional promotional methods such as touring, word of mouth, fan clubs and posters with Web sites, e-mail lists and blogs. Listener recommendations, online preview clips and samples, shared playlists and other grassroots Web tools are also changing the music landscape.
Bottom line: ... read more
Robin Good Comments C|Net News - July 4, 2004
The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic Compact Cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes into digital media files for playback on your PC.
Better yet, archive your favorite audio files or streams onto cassette. In essence, the PlusDeck 2 records ... read more
Robin Good - ThinkGeek - July 1, 2004
"An interesting connection and developing nanopublishing business through nurturing talent: "This very model of broadcast folk art may be the thing that places weblogs on a viable footing for the long term as a communications medium that moves both people and profits. The popular music industry ... read more
John Blossom - Shore - [via Rafat Ali] - June 2, 2004
Musicplasma is a visual search engine that allows to find music tracks and authors according to the musical genre they belong to. Through the basic application of some essential information design techniques Musciplasma shows once again how powerful information visualization can be in the realm of ... read more
Robin Good - Master New Media - January 27, 2004
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