Couple of mp3 blogs and sites I got stuff from tonight: Music is a Virus, said the gramophone, Party Ben, Teaching The Indie Kids to Dance Again, the suburbs are killing us, music for robots
Category Archives: Music
Grip – ripping CDs
When using Grip to rip your CDs make sure to click the “Config->Misc->Do not lowercase filenames” box. Otherwise you get lame filenames.
JmanX.com – Videos Flash Games MP3s Programs Humor & More!
I just noticed at JmanX.com that he has a Flash based music player. I like his taste in music!
How to download Real Audio streams and convert Real Audio to MP3
This guide is good, and there’s even a link to a page with instructions on doing the same and more on Linux!
And in a timely coincidence, Justin’s delicious bookmarks points at this page with instructions on recording streaming audio with Mplayer! I’ve done the same and posted command lines here before. Go search for “mplayer” or something! Lots more Linux stuff on that site including the odd opinionated piece..
The Willful
The Willful played in the Coal Quay Bar last night and went down a storm! Great night, especially as I hadn’t been to that pub in months!
MP3 Blog Roundup
This extensive roundup of MP3 blogs looks good! Must set a few downloading tonight!
I’ll have to figure out some way of recording meta data about the mp3 files if the files don’t have mp3 tags as one of the posts there suggests.
Possibly the simplest way is creating directories named after the bands and putting the songs there.
CorkGigs.com – one to check daily!
Maybe I should make this a family blog, Donal again comes up with the goods! He told me ages ago about CorkGigs.com but I always forgot to blog it. It’s an, “events listing for live music concerts and other performances in Cork”, although I don’t see the King of Hearts there anywhere. Owen, perhaps you’d like to change that?
Anyhow, that link’s going in my links section!
If you’re in the Cork area, you might like to know about the Listeners’ Choice Festival on Campus radio, starting on the 15th. Hmm, anyone know if Campus Radio can be picked up in Blarney?
Oh! What a Night – mini review
Last night, as I mentioned previously we went to see “Oh! What a Night” in the Cork Opera House. In one word? Wow!
It’s a highly-charged musical set in 1970’s New York, mostly in a disco called Inferno and the auditioning for a movie about a new phenomenon called “disco dancing”!
The musical is all about the music, dancing, clothes and atmosphere of the 70s and it’s a funky look into an age past! The audience was dancing in the aisles by the end of the show, people were clapping along to the beat and not all the singing was from the stage!
If it comes to your city go see it. It’s only in Cork for a week, probably going on (or been to) Dublin, so go see it if you get a chance!
Oh! What a Night
Well, I’m off to the theatre again! I’m going to see Oh! What a Night tomorrow night and it looks like a great show! More on whazon.com and eventguide.ie.