Category: Music

Getting FLAC

After a coworker mentioned it, I decided to rip all of our CDs to FLAC so that we'll have perfect copies and can always transcode to the latest file formats. Last night I ripped a few CDs with dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)....

Music

Rich Girl

A few days ago while we were on the cruise, we heard the song, "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani, Eve, et al. Now I've heard this song before many times - heck I'd even say that I like it. The interesting thing is that this time we...

MacMusic

Last.fm on OS X

I finally decided to see what this last.fm/scrobbling thing is all about so I downloaded the last.fm 1.0.4 client for Mac OS X. However, it crashed immediately on startup. After a little searching, I found this page, which...

Music

Death Cab for Cutie

My wife has been playing the latest CD from Death Cab for Cutie quite a lot in the car and I've liked it but haven't been knocked out by it. We saw them on Friday at the Greek Theater in Berkeley (my wife won free tickets on the...

GadgetsMusicProducts

PreSonus FireStudio

It's been way too long since I've done any music creation. Perhaps in a couple of months when I get the home into a decently organized state, I'll look for some studio gear for the spare bedroom and this new gizmo from NAMM will...

Music

Juicy

Better Than Ezra was once one of my favorite bands. "Deluxe" and "Friction, Baby" were two of my favorite albums. "How Does Your Garden Grow?" was a huge disappointment for me, although I grew to like it a little bit more over...

MusicWindows

Making music with SNDREC32.EXE

Check out some pretty impressive techno-style tunes done with only the Windows sound recorder app (SNDREC32.EXE). See, GarageBand isn't needed after all! :-)