May 2010
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How Google's music-streaming venture will change... →
“While the iPod has come to symbolize the digital music age, it’s iTunes that’s allowed Apple to control the musical marketplace. iTunes has a nice interface, it’s easy to learn, and it’s ubiquitous—it ships with every Mac, and it’s one of the most downloaded Windows programs around. Other companies may make great phones and music players, but they don’t have the desktop software to sync your...
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OH YEAH FACTS: Four hundred million years ago... →
As long as humans have lived on Earth, the day has been 24 hours long. But humans are just a blip in the history of the planet. Not long after the Earth formed more than four billion years ago, a day was less than ten hours long. Four hundred million years ago there were 400 22-hour days in a…
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Quick Tip: 6 Things to Do Before Your Mix Goes to... →
“I like thinking about mastering as a type of black magic. Filled with taboos and unapproachableness.
“Everybody and their grandmother has an opinion about how things should be recorded and mixed, but when asked about mastering most people hush up and shrug. Mastering is a trickier subject to tackle than mixing I feel, and the delicate touch and subtleties a mastering engineer gives to a final...
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iPad is Outselling Mac →
That didn’t take long. John Paczkowski reports that iPads are already outselling Macs, running 200,000 units per week. Keep in mind supply is still low—all models on apple.com are showing a ship time of 7-10 business days.
WhoSampled - Discover and Discuss Music Samples... →
“We’re building the ultimate database of sampled music and cover songs.
“Dig deeper into music by discovering direct links between over 35,000 songs and 15,000 artists, from Hip-Hop, R&B, Funk and Soul via Electronic Music through to Rock, Pop and beyond. Watch the videos, contribute new content, discuss and vote!”
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The brain is 70% fat.
(The Essential Book of Useless Information)