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Web applications. Time for sound? I’ve been thinking recently about reintroducing sound events into some of our web applications. The web has moved on from midi files as background music, and sounds on ever button with a web page. We’ve become more grown up when it comes to multimedia. But perhaps now is the time for adding complimentary sounds to a web application. Desktop applications have never really lost the sounds – particularly instant message systems such as MSN or Skype, to denote events. Finding the right sounds for the job is aways a bit of a chore. Filed in: ProgrammingTagged with: Programming • sound • web application About the Author (Author Profile) Paul is a regular 30 year old web bloke / programmer with a penchant for online marketing.

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opsound: free love, free music ross:ching Articles: The Social History of the MP3 Considering all the new music we have to sort through so far in the 21st century, we've sure been focusing an awful lot lately on two of the biggest stars of the 20th. Decades after their respective popular peaks, recent events reminded us, neither the Beatles nor Michael Jackson have loosened their grip on our imagination. Yet one particular thing I noticed amidst the nostalgia surrounding the latest (and likely last) Beatles CD reissues, and Jackson's sudden passing was a sense of resignation that the eras within which both stars emerged seem highly unlikely to happen again. The latest chapters of these two long-running pop narratives not only celebrated their art and pop-culture impact, but also-- with MJ posthumously topping the Billboard charts and millions preparing to shell out again for new copies of Revolver and more-- commemorated the ritual of paying for it. The cassette "crisis" seems quaint when compared to the rise of the mp3. Let's not get carried away, though.

THE TOFU HUT =================================================================Even when you don't find music here, you can bet I'm on my grizzly. Here's a recent post I made over at Monkeyfilter and ILM: Some of you may know me from around town; I'm an audioblogger. A musicblogger/audioblogger/MP3blogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. I'm not prejudiced; I also include record label sites, artist's personal sites, people who aggregate the daily adventures of other musicbloggers into digests... What you WON'T find in here are file directories without commentary or sites offering a full album that is currently in print. As of May 9th, 2005, all of the following sites are live and have tunes available to listen to. Here's the grand collection, organized by my own interpretation of their primary genre and (new feature!)