Yahoo Easy Listener

Yahoo Blog Remix

A kickass music blog finder that allows you to add audio files to your mix and republish into a blog post (like here) and even as a playlist in iTunes which I’ve downloaded to my iPod. WOW.

Muxtape Mentalism

Muxtape is a new fun site for sharing music. It’s very simple to use and seems to exist in the same magical legal precinct that most mp3 blogs and music podcasts reside. Since becoming aware of it, I’ve enjoyed rifling through a variety of trendsetters’ muxtapes and it was certainly only a matter of time before I made my own. Most of the tunes I’ve chosen come from CDs I acquired over five years ago but the roots-of-rock pre-soul rhythm & blues jiving sound is one I’m digging right now. If you’ve made a muxtape or know of one I should check out then go ahead and leave a comment below.

Here’s mine: Diddy Wah’s Muxtape

So as not to be a tease for all the mp3 vultures that drop by, all the tunes are also available for download as single files. Dig in.

mp3: Frank Frost - My Back Scratcher
mp3: Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle And Roll
mp3: Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips
mp3: Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
mp3: Gary Spider Webb - Drum City Part 1 & 2
mp3: The Sonics - Walking The Dog
mp3: Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business
mp3: Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup - Shout, Sister, Shout
mp3: Arthur Alexander - Black Night
mp3: Bobby Bland - St. James Infirmary
mp3: Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
mp3: Rene Touzet - El Loco Cha Cha

Heard Mentality

So one of the biggest things going online right now is he ability to create a “mixed tape” of songs you upload and let anyone listen to. A listener cannot download songs for themselves. This is to protect the content’s copyrights. Overall, a nice idea but how long can the fad last?

What I am listening to so far: http://mojodenbow.muxtape.com/

Oklahoma-Miami Highlights

Boomer Sooner!

Arrested Development: Gob Alienates the Employees

C’mon!

Dog Tired

Hey gang, thanks for sticking it out and waiting for a new post here. I am still trying to figure out how to manage my new job, pregnant wonderwife and have time for self. It is a great mental workout which leaves little time for blogging. My brain and body are tired trying to adjust.

There are TONS to talk about and will be discussed here soon (today, tomorrow?)

Hope you are well!

Billy Joel Plays Birmingham

 Tonight, Monday February 26 at the BJCC. Concert details will be forthcoming after the concert. Are you going? Let me know and we’ll try to meet up.

WIth a big thanks to Lara for the tickets…

 

Technorati tags: Billy Joel, concert, Birmingham, Alabama, BJCC, piano, Audio Mojo

Songbird Spreads Its Wings

Slowly but surely, the not quite finished Songbird media player releases new features, this week it is Add-ons. In Firefox they would be called extensions, but either way I am digging the iPod player support, Qloud, feathers (themes), Audioscrobbler, WMA playback support, iTunes library importer and more.

Click here for previous Songbird article on Audio Mojo

Link: Download Songbird player

Technorati tags: Songbird, Mozilla, media, add-ons, webware, software, Audio Mojo

iJigg

You’ve seen Digg.com, but have you heard iJigg? iJigg is a clone but with an audio twist. Artists upload their music in the hopes that you dig their music and vote for them. What is popular? You decide. Maybe its the name but Batman Loves My Dog caught my ears. 

 

Technorati tags: iJigg, Digg, music, audio, Audio Mojo

Apple’s Jobs Says No To DRM

In a letter entitled “Thoughts On Music“, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is suggesting no more Digital Rights Management (DRM) on downloaded songs. Will it be seen as pandering to the consumers in an effort to boost sales or a shot across the bow at record labels and the RIAA? Time will tell.

Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.
Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. . . . In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves.
. . . So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music.

I’m tired of being under suspicion of copying/stealing music, aren’t you?

Technorati tags: Apple, DRM, iPod, Audio Mojo