SkiniTunes™ - A Mini Player for iTunes with Skins, Hotkeys, Lyrics & More! The 100 Greatest Music Sites ( - Edward de Leau) UPDATE: I have moved the list to ! (update your links) The greatest music sites on the Internet. This is "the essential music sites" list. If you have any addition to this list contact me. 17-1-2008: Since the list is growing and growing I have decided to split it into pieces, this saves some loading time and is also easier to maintain: 11. social networks and music: Upcoming Interesting Music Portals Cover Art Music Blogs Other Still to be reviewed: jamglue, uplayme.com, goombah.com, etc…
Free Culture blog Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. A handful of myths have become common defenses of the W3C’s plan for “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME), a Digital Restrictions After 9 Years of free culture advocacy, Students for Free Culture is superceded by the Free Culture Foundation We are excited to announce the Free Culture Foundation — the new organization taking the place of Students for Free New Free Culture T-Shirts! Check out the new Free Culture T-Shirts designed by Kirby Bukowski: Register for FCX2013! Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at New York Law School on April 20-21st! What you can do to promote Open Access . Announcing the Empowermentors Collective: a group for women of color and queer people of color This has been cross-posted at the Free Software Foundation blog here. How to honor Aaron Swartz Happy Ada Lovelace Day The Future of Creative Commons: Examining defenses of the NC and ND clauses
Free Audio & Video Sort by Titles Per Page 1 - 10 of 11101 Titles by Napoleon Hill Available on:Audio Download Inspired by an idea from Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill devoted 25 years to what became his life's work and is now one of the most influential self development books of all time, Think and Grow Rich. Available on:Audio Download | Online Video This audio book, released by ThoughtAudio.com isolates everything uttered by Christ in the gospel according to Matthew. by Valmiki The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. by Martin Luther King, Jr. Available on:Online Audio | Online Video "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." by C.S. The entire Chronicles of Narnia read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast. by Dale Carnegie The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. by Mallanaga Vatsyayana by Marcus Aurelius by Benjamin Franklin
Weezer's "We Are All On Drugs" Video When we were talking Weezer a few months back, few of you were impressed by the band’s latest album, especially the tune “We Are All On Drugs.” But I’m gonna recommend you all check out the video for it anyway: it’s just Weezer’s song married with footage from Grim Reaper’s ’85 video for “Fear No Evil.” Apparently the clip is only for international outlets (i.e., you won’t see it on American MTV). It has axes and a werewolf and shit. No Weezer, no Playboy Mansion. If Weezer had commissioned it from scratch, it would be genius. Apparently Rivers was a fan of the British metal group in his formative years.
Save Last.fm and Aupeo tracks to MP3 with Music Downloader I wrote about LastSharp a while back - it's an application developed in C# that allows you to download tracks from Last.fm. If you'd prefer an option that doesn't require the .Net runtimes, there's Last.fm Music Downloader - which is also totally portable. Launch Music Downloader and drop in a Last.fm url - it can be a similar artists link ( or global tag ( Click the start button, and the playlist begins downloading to your hard drive. There are a few settings you can tweak: default save folder, album art downloading, download speed limit, and maximum number of downloads. Files are automatically named artist - track title.mp3 by default, and the deep folder layout option will sort them into \artist\album subdirectories. It's also worth noting that I was able to download tracks from Aupeo - even though the service isn't available to me in Canada. [via gHacks]
Audio | Creative Commons CC Malaysia, where are we now? A mixtape, open data and more CC Malaysia Mixtape 2015 by Muid Latif under CC BY NC ND A guest post by CC Malaysia Lead, Muid Latif. In the recent years, Malaysia has been more active in adopting open culture. For example, last December I had the chance to approach several local musicians and producers who are familiar with Creative Commons licenses on SoundCloud to find out if they were keen to have their music under a CC license. Our community also wants to play a greater role in open data. In this context, I have recently had the chance to contact the founder of the Big Data Malaysia network, Tirath Ramdas, about his view on open data here in Malaysia and concerns about citizen engagement. In the near future, we would love to see Malaysia join the Open Government Partnership (OGP), following the Big Data Analytics Framework goal to have the framework ready by the end of this year and in line with the Digital Malaysia 354 Roadmap (DM354 Roadmap).
The best music of the decade | Music For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. We took a general poll of our music writers, then whittled things down to a manageable number, then talked some more about what should go where. It probably doesn’t need saying that not everyone will agree with these choices, but that’s what the comments are for—let us know what your favorite records were from 2000-2009. 50. Considering how many musicians are featured on Broken Social Scene’s breakthrough, it’s impressive that it feels so effortless. 49. If Drive-By Truckers were filmmakers instead of a kick-ass rock ’n’ roll band, The Dirty South might have been the decade’s great sprawling cinematic crime epic—a sort of redneck version of The Godfather where good ol’ boys from Alabama bury more bullet-ridden judges than cottonseed, and wonder if they’re going to die alone someday like Richard Manuel. 48. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 38. 37. 36.
30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about online tools, you may find this recent article on Google Analytics apps of great interest. In this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it. Whether you’re subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. Luckily there is still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, these are files you can use in the creation of web sites and other media, free of charge. SitePoint has gathered up over 30 of the best resources online for audio, video, images and more for finding just the perfect Creative Commons licensed item for use in your next project. Audio ArtistServer.com: Over 7,000 free audio files as of this writing, all well categorized and easy to navigate. Images
Audio Lunchbox The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings hide captionTop row, left to right: Beyonce, Wilco; Second row: Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, Norah Jones; Bottom row: American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Jay Z. It seemed like an impossible task, but that didn't stop us from trying. With the first decade of the new millennium coming to a close, we decided to compile a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years — a list that covers a wide range of styles and genres, with indelible songs and albums that challenge, inspire and captivate. Favorite records don't necessarily qualify. A lot of people, including All Songs Considered listeners, helped put this list together. The 50 Most Important Recordings: Hear the music and read our reviews. A-C (John Adams to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) C-J (Kelly Clarkson to Jay-Z) J-M (Norah Jones to Jason Moran) O-S (OutKast to Sigur Ros) S-W (Britney Spears to Amy Winehouse)
FofR Configuration v0.6 (a Foobar2000 resource) EDIT: Be sure to read the new Installation Guide & FAQEDIT 2: Be sure to help out Ah ha! Here it is – after a long wait, and it comes with a huge change list. To summarise my improvements, all configurations and settings have been shifted down to the bottom menu which now comes with it’s own tabs. Once again it is essential to have the latest PanelsUI (v0.8.1 as of writing) and some new features use the cwb_hooks component, so get that if you don’t have it. Get PanelsUI version 0.8+ or this configuration will not work. There’s a lot of changes here and I advise you to check what’s new before you use it: Version 0.6 (yeah that’s a lot of changes) Theme Colour content moved to separate track displays to facilitate making new colour themes, this is proving to be a little buggy when changing themes & start up in Panels UI versions pre v0.8.1, variables now persist between fb2k sessions so everything works nicely in the latest PUI. This is all best illustrated with pictures: The Ratings Panel