Audio – Rocknerd

Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.

9 June, 20179 June, 2017 Audio, Links, Punk 0

And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).

Links: iTunes still sucks, Spotify not compressing as much, the Great Cultural Fragmentation.

27 May, 201727 May, 2017 Audio, Links, mp3 0

“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”

Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.

25 May, 201725 May, 2017 Audio, Film, Links, Post-Punk, Rocknerd 0

♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫

Links: Music industry sexism, vinyl video game music, why do we want sound recording anyway?

23 May, 201723 May, 2017 Audio, Games, Industry, Links 0

As usual, the comments on an article on why feminism is needed in the music industry demonstrate why feminism is needed in the music industry.

Master Quality Authenticated — “high-resolution” audio with … lossy compression.

17 May, 201721 May, 2017 Audio, Opinion 8

An audacious innovation in the “high-resolution audio” field: hi-res audio that does lossy compression. And the record companies love it.

Links: How to rig the charts, musicians’ vending machine, a malware music player, Internet Archive.

7 May, 201718 May, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Musician 0

I’m sure Harry Styles will categorically deny that anyone from any of his teams paid anyone to do anything whatsoever toward this chart rigging effort. Any moment now.

Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.

25 April, 201728 April, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.

Links: uTorrent, bogus RightsCorp DMCA notices, International 8-Track Day.

23 April, 201724 April, 2017 Audio, mp3, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

Ignoring the previous National 8-Track Day, of course.

Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.

27 March, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Your rights 0

“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”

Followups: laser-burnt records, that Beatles live album, Depeche Mode vs the Nazis.

14 March, 201714 March, 2017 Audio, Links, Pop, Rock 0

Further on previous stories. Reach out and punch face.

Links: 100 years of recorded jazz, Spotify lossless streaming, Dark Side of the Moon desk.

3 March, 201729 March, 2017 Audio, Jazz, Links, mp3, Prog 0

And a picture that’s definitely a trap.

Links: The public domain in comic form, Max Martin, Raspberry Pi tube sound.

1 March, 201725 April, 2017 Audio, Links, Pop, Your rights 0

And why you shouldn’t flush sodium metal down the toilet.

Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.

8 February, 20178 February, 2017 Audio, Esoterica, Links, Musician, Punk 2

Not every nun needs a Synthi.

Whatever happened to Winamp? (which you can still download, by the way)

5 February, 20173 May, 2017 Audio, mp3, Opinion 25

Fifteen to twenty years ago, Winamp was the MP3 player that everyone used. It was the first MP3 player not to suck: playlists, shuffle, convenience. And you can still download the last version.

Links: AirPod woes, MegaUpload 2.0 delayed by dodginess, classic anti-piracy ads.

24 January, 201721 February, 2017 Audio, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

“Sorry but there has been an expected hiccup. Will tell you all about it later today. Let this play out and give me some time to update you.”

Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.

22 January, 201722 January, 2017 Audio, Country, Industry, Links, mp3, Punk 0

GIRLS LEAD PUNK ARMY ON RAMPAGE

Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.

15 January, 201718 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3, Television, Writing 0

Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.

Links: Ticketmaster, digital property, not liking music, the biggest UK debut album of 2016.

10 January, 201710 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Pop, Your rights 0

Every nun needs a Synthi.

Links: AdNauseam blocked, Facebook video takedowns, hi-res Tidal, a wrist vibrator subwoofer.

9 January, 201710 January, 2017 Audio, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Seriously, $199 for a vibrator for your wrist.

Streaming links: Google and SoundCloud, hi-res audio, codec snobbery.

7 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

From the world of your music on other people’s computers.

Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.

22 December, 201622 December, 2016 Audio, Industry, Musician 0

Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.

The time has come to listen to Ethernet cables.

25 November, 201617 May, 2017 Audio, Opinion, Writing 7

The sound with the Pearl becomes lighter and has less impact and detail compared to the Supra. Stereo image shrinks, but more obvious is a reduction in detail. Changing to Cinnamon with only one switch in my network produces a surprising result.

Links: High-resolution consumer audio, London for music sales, the worst Beach Boys album.

17 November, 201618 November, 2016 Audio, Links, Live, Record, Rock 0

Audio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.

Links: China’s top music site, 808 The Documentary, Shazam is listening.

16 November, 201618 November, 2016 Audio, Film, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Douban.com, a movie about a drum machine, software that grabs your microphone.

Of course audiophiles still want vacuum tube computer audio.

8 November, 20168 November, 2016 Audio 0

At last, a followup on the legendary AOpen AX4B-533 Tube computer motherboard from 2002, and your options for cheap glow-in-the-dark amplification in 2016.

Recording links: a new vinyl process, Brexit and UK records, Pono no mo’.

5 November, 20165 November, 2016 Audio, Dance, Industry, mp3 1

Exploring new frontiers in obsolete technology, why Brexit will affect UK music precisely how you think it would, and the state of Neil Young’s Pono.

Links: Psychoacoustics for recording, blockchain band names, Dépèche Mode demos.

23 October, 2016 Audio, Industry, Links, Pop 0

Scurvy recording trickery, scurvier buzzword-compliant scams and Dépèche Mode so too has the accents in.

Apple’s shiny new headphone adapter turns out to suck. Gosh, etc.

30 September, 201630 September, 2016 Audio, Musician 0

The shiny new iPhone headphone adapter for Lightning isn’t actually powerful enough to drive headphones properly, and Bluetooth linking inexplicably doesn’t work so well for non-Apple headphones.