Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Inspector Gadget theme song played on beer bottles

The beer bottle drummer in front of Paddy’s Market in Sydney.
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MP3 Diags Scans and Repairs Your MP3 Collection

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Window/Linux: Fixing a tag here and there is one thing, but what if your MP3 collection is in need of a deep and serious massaging to get things in order? MP3 Diags lets you dig into the guts of MP3s.

The creator of MP3 Diags was frustrated with how limited many of the MP3 repair tools he used were and how many of them used tags incorrectly or inserted their own tags into the MP3s. MP3 Diags is a powerful MP3 editor that not only allows you to diagnose and fix surface problems with your MP3 collection such as incorrect track numbers or song names, but it digs even deeper and enables you to repair things like problems with the VBR header and other hidden but important aspects of your music collection.

If you’re a bit hesitant to mess around with MP3 Diags but you’d really like to get at least the albums, song names, and tracks cleaned up in your collection you definitely want to check out previously reviewed iTune’s add-in Tune Up.

MP3 Diag is freeware and available for Windows and Linux.

How-To: Portable voice recording booth

portable vocal recording booth

Some cardboard, a plastic handle, and some sound insulating foam make for an impressively portable vocal booth by Instructables user humanworkshop.

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Les Paul – Inventor of multi-track recording

Les Paul (1915-2009) Besides the solid-body electric guitar which defined the sound of rock and roll, his many recording innovations include overdubbing, looping, delay effects such as “sound on sound” and tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording. Here, Les Paul and Mary Ford are hosted by Alistair Cooke on a 1953 broadcast of the legendary CBS show “Omnibus”.

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