The Sound From Wind is hands down the most innovative if not frivolous bicycle accessory to date. What you get are a pair of flutes that attach to either sides of the handle bar. As you ride you bike, air rushes thru chambers producing sounds similar to an ocarina. You manipulate those sounds by pressing keys on both flutes and if you want a fuller, richer sound - ride faster!
This is brilliant for two reasons. One, I’ve always loved the sound of a flute or ocarina. Two, I’ve always wanted to move with my own soundtrack. This somewhat brings me closer to my dreams of living out my musical fantasies. And while I’m at it, might as well add beads to the spokes, neon blinkers front and rear, and a bell to complete the fully pimped out look. Designer: Joseph Kim
Showing posts with label free music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free music. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Sound Of Music
Monday, March 10, 2008
Rahsaan Patterson, 'Burnin'': Free MP3 of the Day
Patterson describes the title of his latest, "Wines & Spirits," as sounding "biblical," but it's the songs that really belong in church. Rich vocal harmonies and sermon-strength lyrics point straight to gospel, while funked-out bass lines and biting synths earn their own believers.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
Qtrax is going to offer 25 million free musics
After to pass one decade trying to fight the piracy of musics for the InterNet, part of the fonográfica industry decided to liberate, to leave of this monday, the gratuitous access more than the 25 million songs for the InterNet.
The music service online Qtrax announced, in this sunday, a partnership with great recorders, including EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music, that go to make possible that using they lower of favour headings of the most varied sorts, since great hits of the present time until classics and rarities.
The announcement was made by the American company during the opening of 42ª edition of the Midem (International Market of the Record and the Musical Edition), the world-wide fair of music, in Cannes, France.
To have access musics, the user will have to go to the site of the Qtrax and to lower a specific software. Atrelada to the new tool, is Digital software Rights Management (management of digital rights, in free translation), that it will allow the recorders to check how many times its musics had been lowered and touched.
The service will be disponibilizado by means of a net "to peer-to-peer" (P2P) of sharing of archives for the InterNet.
Ipod
As part of the agreement, artists and recorders they will be paid in agreement the number of accesses to its musics and still they will receive a slice from the one that will be collected with the announcements advertising executives made in the page of the Qtrax.
Companies as Microsoft, Mc Donald's and Ford already had disclosed that they will be some of the advertisers.
Musics that could be lowered by the Qtrax will not be compatible - at least at a first moment - with iPod. But the company, who passed last the five years developing the new tool, already announced that she is studying a "solution for iPod", to be disponibilizada in 15 of April.
About USS 30 million (R$ 53 million) they had been invested by the Qtrax in the new technology.
The head-executive of the company, Allan Klepfisz, said that the consumers "now will be able to share music for the InterNet legally".
"We want to be able to disponibilizar music of favour in an environment of total legality that will allow that the artists are paid".
[BBC Brazil]
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The music service online Qtrax announced, in this sunday, a partnership with great recorders, including EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music, that go to make possible that using they lower of favour headings of the most varied sorts, since great hits of the present time until classics and rarities.
The announcement was made by the American company during the opening of 42ª edition of the Midem (International Market of the Record and the Musical Edition), the world-wide fair of music, in Cannes, France.
To have access musics, the user will have to go to the site of the Qtrax and to lower a specific software. Atrelada to the new tool, is Digital software Rights Management (management of digital rights, in free translation), that it will allow the recorders to check how many times its musics had been lowered and touched.
The service will be disponibilizado by means of a net "to peer-to-peer" (P2P) of sharing of archives for the InterNet.
Ipod
As part of the agreement, artists and recorders they will be paid in agreement the number of accesses to its musics and still they will receive a slice from the one that will be collected with the announcements advertising executives made in the page of the Qtrax.
Companies as Microsoft, Mc Donald's and Ford already had disclosed that they will be some of the advertisers.
Musics that could be lowered by the Qtrax will not be compatible - at least at a first moment - with iPod. But the company, who passed last the five years developing the new tool, already announced that she is studying a "solution for iPod", to be disponibilizada in 15 of April.
About USS 30 million (R$ 53 million) they had been invested by the Qtrax in the new technology.
The head-executive of the company, Allan Klepfisz, said that the consumers "now will be able to share music for the InterNet legally".
"We want to be able to disponibilizar music of favour in an environment of total legality that will allow that the artists are paid".
[BBC Brazil]
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Free Music for Your iPod
Downloading Free Music Without Fear
With so many questions regarding the legality of international and domestic music downloads - questions which in accordance with the RIAA’s litigation strategy have created a blanket presumption of downloading fear that may not be entirely justified - there are only a handful of major free music download sites that guarantee that users are not breaking any laws. The best we’ve seen are listed below.
3hive.com: A great blog-style listing of free iPod-compatible MP3 songs offered by record artists and labels in an attempt to entice full-album purchases.
Amazon.com Free Music Downloads: A surprising mix of music from mainstream and independent artists, available for free in iPod-compatible MP3 format. Also offers musicians the ability to upload and share their songs.
eMusic.com: Provides a paid MP3 download service with a free two-week trial period. Focuses primarily on independent artists and offers a selection of 20,000 full albums to choose from.
Epitonic.com: Offers highly professional, artist-focused presentation of free digital music downloads in MP3 format, with biographical details and short previews for songs across a narrow collection of genres.
Freekidsmusic.com: Along with its sister site Freechildrensmusic.com, provides a large variety of free MP3 format songs for young listeners.
Garageband.com: Not to be confused with Apple’s music creation application of the same name, Garageband.com collects and provides popularity charts of independent music, featuring over 125,000 bands.IUMA.com: The Internet Underground Music Archive provides genre-organized downloads of iPod-compatible MP3-format music.
MFiles.co.uk: A simple site from an aesthetic standpoint, provides free downloads of well-known classical music in MP3 format.
MP34U.com: A clean, professionally designed interface to individual free songs sorted by genre, selected by site “sources” who pick and post only music they like.
MP3blogs.org: A single site that provides an hourly aggregation of the free and legal MP3 downloading blogs of over 100 different bloggers, impressively spanning genres and tastes from the obscure to the mainstream.
Music.download.com: The music-dedicated expansion of popular software download site Download.com offers free full-length MP3 songs across all major genres, even including Children’s, Spoken Word, Comedy, Folk and Religious tracks. Most tracks are indie.
PureVolume offers over 100,000 free songs for download, and captured many of the best users of what used to be MP3.com (before it was scrapped, sold, and completely changed).
Vitaminic: Mixing downloads in iPod-compatible MP3 format with those in iPod-incompatible Realmedia format, Vitaminic spans a wide range of genres - even including ones such as classical, jazz, and world music.
Of course, if you can’t find the song you’re looking for on one of these free sites, you can always visit Apple’s iTunes Music Store and make a purchase there. Though iTunes isn’t as cheap as some of the questionable international sites listed in the prior section, and it both limits bitrate quality and places heavier restrictions on use of its downloaded music, it is an entirely safe and legal way to get access to over one million songs.
Downloading Free Podcasts: Radio for your iPod
In addition to free music for your iPod, you can also download “Podcasts,” short radio-style programs produced by individuals and companies around the world. iLounge’s Podcast - which was created using an iPod photo and Griffin’s iTalk voice recorder accessory - can be downloaded here, and several directories of Podcasts have popped up elsewhere on the Internet.
iPodder.org is the web site of former MTV vee-jay and Podcasting spearheader Adam Curry, with a directory that’s slowly being updated to accommodate numerous additions. Podcaster.net is another and more modern-looking directory, with iPodderX.com offering both a directory and a Podcast downloading tool. On a related note, the fine folks at Engadget produce a great Podcast and also provide tutorials on creating your own.
Finding More Free and Legal Music Online
If you haven’t visited iLounge’s Free Music section yet, now’s the time. We’ve found a collection of great sites that tell you where to get the best new free and legal music online.
Besides the existing iLounge Discussion Forums, which host over 15,000 posts on music (and 3,000 on music formats), we have just added the new Free Music forum, where you can discuss legal places to find free music online.
Please verify that any links you submit qualify as “free, legal music downloads.” iLounge does not take any responsibility for verifying the legality of any of the sites or services listed, and encourages all users to be cautious before downloading and sharing any other person’s music online.
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With so many questions regarding the legality of international and domestic music downloads - questions which in accordance with the RIAA’s litigation strategy have created a blanket presumption of downloading fear that may not be entirely justified - there are only a handful of major free music download sites that guarantee that users are not breaking any laws. The best we’ve seen are listed below.
3hive.com: A great blog-style listing of free iPod-compatible MP3 songs offered by record artists and labels in an attempt to entice full-album purchases.
Amazon.com Free Music Downloads: A surprising mix of music from mainstream and independent artists, available for free in iPod-compatible MP3 format. Also offers musicians the ability to upload and share their songs.
eMusic.com: Provides a paid MP3 download service with a free two-week trial period. Focuses primarily on independent artists and offers a selection of 20,000 full albums to choose from.
Epitonic.com: Offers highly professional, artist-focused presentation of free digital music downloads in MP3 format, with biographical details and short previews for songs across a narrow collection of genres.
Freekidsmusic.com: Along with its sister site Freechildrensmusic.com, provides a large variety of free MP3 format songs for young listeners.
Garageband.com: Not to be confused with Apple’s music creation application of the same name, Garageband.com collects and provides popularity charts of independent music, featuring over 125,000 bands.IUMA.com: The Internet Underground Music Archive provides genre-organized downloads of iPod-compatible MP3-format music.
MFiles.co.uk: A simple site from an aesthetic standpoint, provides free downloads of well-known classical music in MP3 format.
MP34U.com: A clean, professionally designed interface to individual free songs sorted by genre, selected by site “sources” who pick and post only music they like.
MP3blogs.org: A single site that provides an hourly aggregation of the free and legal MP3 downloading blogs of over 100 different bloggers, impressively spanning genres and tastes from the obscure to the mainstream.
Music.download.com: The music-dedicated expansion of popular software download site Download.com offers free full-length MP3 songs across all major genres, even including Children’s, Spoken Word, Comedy, Folk and Religious tracks. Most tracks are indie.
PureVolume offers over 100,000 free songs for download, and captured many of the best users of what used to be MP3.com (before it was scrapped, sold, and completely changed).
Vitaminic: Mixing downloads in iPod-compatible MP3 format with those in iPod-incompatible Realmedia format, Vitaminic spans a wide range of genres - even including ones such as classical, jazz, and world music.
Of course, if you can’t find the song you’re looking for on one of these free sites, you can always visit Apple’s iTunes Music Store and make a purchase there. Though iTunes isn’t as cheap as some of the questionable international sites listed in the prior section, and it both limits bitrate quality and places heavier restrictions on use of its downloaded music, it is an entirely safe and legal way to get access to over one million songs.
Downloading Free Podcasts: Radio for your iPod
In addition to free music for your iPod, you can also download “Podcasts,” short radio-style programs produced by individuals and companies around the world. iLounge’s Podcast - which was created using an iPod photo and Griffin’s iTalk voice recorder accessory - can be downloaded here, and several directories of Podcasts have popped up elsewhere on the Internet.
iPodder.org is the web site of former MTV vee-jay and Podcasting spearheader Adam Curry, with a directory that’s slowly being updated to accommodate numerous additions. Podcaster.net is another and more modern-looking directory, with iPodderX.com offering both a directory and a Podcast downloading tool. On a related note, the fine folks at Engadget produce a great Podcast and also provide tutorials on creating your own.
Finding More Free and Legal Music Online
If you haven’t visited iLounge’s Free Music section yet, now’s the time. We’ve found a collection of great sites that tell you where to get the best new free and legal music online.
Besides the existing iLounge Discussion Forums, which host over 15,000 posts on music (and 3,000 on music formats), we have just added the new Free Music forum, where you can discuss legal places to find free music online.
Please verify that any links you submit qualify as “free, legal music downloads.” iLounge does not take any responsibility for verifying the legality of any of the sites or services listed, and encourages all users to be cautious before downloading and sharing any other person’s music online.
[Jeremy Horwitz is Editor-in-Chief of iLounge.]
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