http://musicinterfaces.com How we experience music Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:28:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On my MacBook Pro, a little over a third of my 120GB hard drive is taken up MP3s. All encoded at 192kbps (MP3 not AAC for better compatibility). It's a relatively limited selection of my collection of music, but enough to be going on with. I'd be interested to know ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/12/16/itunes-7-second-impressions/ Following on from my iTunes post, I thought I'd note for posterity my iPod useage, in other words how I've adapted the out of the box setup. As you can see, mine's a fourth gen. Photo iPod, white, 60GB: Engraved on the back is 'This iPod belongs to ….' - makes ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/12/15/me-and-my-ipod/ When I bought my iPod a couple of years back, I didn't even open the packet with the Apple headphones, but continued to use the Sony inner ear headphones I'd previously been using with my Discman. I thought they were pretty good. Then I invested a fair amount of money in ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/12/12/headphones/ I wake up after falling asleep on the sofa sometime around 8pm and it's now 2 o'clock in the morning. Davis is curled up on the armchair opposite and there's just the ticking of the clock in the near darkness to keep me company. I'm now not sleepy enough to ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/12/10/lastfm-a-couple-of-small-criticisms/ Retroplayer - via Boing Boing - another excellent player interface. The app's preferences allow the user to adjust distortion, skip and noise between 0 and 100%, it's possible to lift the tone arm to move around the mp3 and the control on the top left corner speeds up or slows ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/12/08/retroplayer-not-just-another-mp3-player/ Top 5 Online Music Streaming Services: The Velvets Test - Nice workmanlike test as to accuracy of streamed radio based upon Velvet Underground Gbox Music Downloads: Universal Partners With Google To Rival iTunes (Gizmodo) - Google and Universal unite to fight against iTunes... Tuning Out: Why Universal Shut Out iTunes on DRM-Free ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/08/23/recent-items-of-note-27/ Last.fm signs content deal with Sony (E-consultancy.com) - Calling Universal?s bluff (John Naughton) - Interesting thoughts about why Universal was threatening to pull out of iTunes? On the Web, EMI to Offer More Choices (New York Times) - "blogs and social networking sites like MySpace are will also be able to ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/07/20/recent-items-of-note-26/ Peripherals: On Yer Bike with the iH85B, iHome's iPod Speaker (Gizmodo) - Worth a look - ingenious design for an iPod speaker system designed specifically for mounting on a bicycle - whether it will enable you to take on the dubstep/junglist massive is questionable though... Soundpedia: A Decent Pandora Substitute For ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/06/28/recent-items-of-note-25/ That subject line should also mention that's average number of CDs per head of population. Is this something to feel proud about? Given recent news that digital downloads aren't necessarily more ecologically sound than CD buying (I still find that hard to believe), perhaps I should be. I'll also admit ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/06/23/the-guardian-we-brits-buy-more-cds-than-any-other-country/ iPod not eco-friendly - "Environmental groups claim the music industry's transition from physical to digital has no discernible benefit to the environment and, in the short term, is actually causing more harm than good." Google Music Trends - Looks like Google is dipping a toe into music charts... Apparently the service ... http://musicinterfaces.com/2007/06/22/recent-items-of-note-24/