Yes, we have waited and waited and now the ‘Bird has finally landed! Since the Songbird server appears to be overloaded we are going to offer a MIRROR here on the site. Enjoy!
Download:
Songbird_0_1_0.exe
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If you want to link to the MIRROR please link to this post permalink (not the .exe file):
http://www.emusiq.org/index.php/archives/2006/02/08/songbird-mirror-available-right-here/
TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/bg85v
Direct from BoingBoing:
“A team led by ex-Winamp-er Rob Lord today released a preview edition of Songbird, a desktop media player that offers an open source alternative to services like Apple’s iTunes and the Windows Media Player. Instead of connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods, it can connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet.
Code brains behind the project include people who helped build Winamp, Muse, Yahoo’s “Y! Music Engine” media player, and developers from Mozilla Foundation. Initial release is for Windows only, with editions for other OSes to follow in the coming weeks.
Built on the same platform as Firefox, Songbird acts like a specialized web browser for music. It sees the online world through MP3-colored glasses – it looks at an archive of public domain sound files or a music store’s catalog, and displays available media for you.
I spoke with Rob Lord earlier today by phone about the preview release. Screenshots and interview after the jump. ”
BARCELONA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - In an attempt to make up with consumers whose PCs have been exposed to unsecure copy-protection software which acts like malware, music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would swap unsecure CDs for new unprotected disks as well as unprotected MP3 files.
The music publishing venture of Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Germany’s Bertelsmann AG [BERT.UL] had already said last week it would temporarily suspend the manufacture of music CDs containing the controversial copy-protection technology.
The XCP copy-protection programme, developed by British software firm First4Internet and used by Sony BMG to restrict copying and sharing of music CDs, acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer where it leaves the backdoor open for malicious hackers.
Sony BMG, after announcing a recall of some 4.7 million CDs with the software on Wednesday, said on Friday consumers could mail their CDs to the company, and they would receive a new unprotected CD in return.
Pending the processing of the exchange programme, consumers would also receive an email with details of a Website where they could download the music tracks as unprotected MP3 files.
Details of the swap programme can be found on http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/. Music CDs with the copy-protection software can be identified by a web address containing the letters XCP printed on the back of the box.
Last week the music publisher said it would do anything possible make amends with its customers who were outraged when the first viruses were discovered.
The XCP programme will have installed itself on a Windows-operated personal computer when consumers want to play 52 title CDs from Sony BMG. The vast majority of the CDs were sold in the United States.
The copy protection software has become a debacle for Sony BMG. Angry consumers filed a class action lawsuit, and Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said it regarded the copy-protection software as malware and would make a tool available to uninstall the programme. Sony BMG also said it will make a new uninstall tool available, after the first uninstall method proved unsecure.
In the latest twist to the story, software engineers found earlier on Friday that the music player which is part of the XCP software contains components from an open source project, an MP3 player called LAME, raising questions about copyright.
First4Internet, which sold the XCP software programme used by Sony BMG on its CDs, declined to comment after repeated requests since Monday.
Sony BMG has re-emphasised that copy-protection software is “an important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists.”
Musician Midge Ure has been presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Tartan Clef Awards.
The Band Aid co-founder and former Ultravox singer received the accolade at a ceremony in Glasgow.
The main award went to Hue and Cry, while newcomer Lucie Silvas was named as best breakthrough artist.
Alabama 3 won the best songwriters prize, while there were also honours for The Corries’ Ronnie Browne and percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
The awards are organised by the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, which helps people with disabilities.
Raising money
The ceremony is in its seventh year, with the prizes being presented this year by Lulu.
Previous winners have included The Darkness, Edwyn Collins and violinist Nicola Benedetti
Chairman Donald Macleod said: “The Tartan Clef Awards go from strength to strength each year, raising an astonishing amount of money for the charity.
“The generosity of people on the night is a true testament that music really does have a place in everyone’s heart, and that awareness of the charity and the power of music therapy continues to grow.”
TORONTO (CP) - It’s becoming a regular occurrence in CD shops across the country: an irate customer comes in complaining the CD they bought won’t play on their computer, and worse yet, they can’t transfer the tunes to their IPod.
The culprit is copy-protected or copy-controlled CDs - something many Canadian music retailers say they would like to see pulled from store shelves.
“This is just another really, really ridiculous way of telling our customers, ‘We don’t want your business,’ ” said Tim Baker of Sunrise Records, which has 31 shops in southern Ontario.
“It’s so stupid.”
The issue was underscored last week with news that the anti-piracy technology used on about 50 Sony BMG titles released in the United States and 37 in Canada secretly left spyware behind on people’s computers.
The software - developed as a way to fight music piracy - made the machines susceptible to viruses and hackers. And trying to remove the software disabled CD drives.
Needless to say, the technology irked consumers. Thousands flocked to the web to vent, using blogs and online petitions to encourage people to boycott Sony products altogether.
“There’s still plenty of work to be done if we are to achieve our goal of being treated like the music lovers we are rather than the criminals that (Sony) assumes us to be,” read one posting on www.boycottsony.us.
Sony BMG said Friday that about 120,000 of the 4.7 million faulty CDs were sold in Canada.
They are not the only company to issue copy-protected CDs in Canada.
EMI has been releasing select albums - including the latest Nickelback album, All The Right Reasons - this way for about three years. The company intends to ship out all its releases with the technology by year’s end.
The EMI discs use different software than Sony BMG, and have yet to cause any computer troubles.
Labels say they need the technology in order to stop people from sharing music with those who haven’t paid for it.
Still, retailers say such technology is punishing those who are actually willing to fork over cash for music - an ever-dwindling group as it is.
“Consumers are not liking it,” says Leslie Purchase, assistant manager at CD Plus in the Halifax Shopping Centre. “People are getting very frustrated by (copy-protected CDs).”
She’s noticed an increase in customers who put CDs down after noticing the “copy-controlled” or “copy-protected” label.
“A lot of customers won’t buy them now. They say ‘I don’t want it’,” she said.
The copy controls are possible through digital rights management technology, or DRM. It lets labels restrict the number of times a CD can be shared - meaning burned or copied.
More controversial is the ability to control which programs consumers can use to playback their music. With EMI and Sony BMG discs, for instance, the music is compatible only with Windows Media Player but not with ITunes (for PC users).
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. has unveiled a pencil-thin “iPod nano” digital music player and a long-anticipated cell phone that plays music like an iPod, both aimed at extending its domination of the digital music market.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs also said that in 2006, some 30 percent of all new U.S. cars will sport stereos that can easily connect to the iPod.
The seriously slimmed-down nano – about a quarter of an inch (0.6 cm) thick, 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) long and 1-1/2 inches (4 cm) wide – drew “oohs” and “ahhs” from the audience at the product release in San Francisco, outdoing the buzz generated by the Rokr phone, which some said failed to meet high expectations for design.
The nano players, either all black or all white, are nearly as small as the entry-level iPod Shuffle but sport click wheels and hold up to 1,000 songs.
Apple has about 75 percent of the market for digital music players, with iPod sales about one-third of its total revenue, and Jobs said competitors had set their sights on the iPod mini, which he said was Apple’s best-selling iPod model.
The nano replaces the mini, and Gartner analyst Van Baker said that Apple – which has sold 21 million iPods since introducing them in 2001 – has moved the goal posts farther down the field with the nano. “It changes the rules of the game,” Baker said.
The iPod nano uses flash memory chips to store songs and photos, rather than the hard-disk drives that the iPod mini and the larger iPods use.
Test for music
The Rokr phone is Apple’s long-awaited foray into the wireless realm. Developed with Motorola Inc., it can store up to 100 songs and has a color screen, stereo speakers, stereo headphones and a camera. Cingular will be the first mobile carrier for the Rokr. Several operators in the United Kingdom are expected to offer the phone soon.
But some said the silver phone did not meet style expectations set by Apple’s iPod and Motorola’s slim flagship Razr phone, and others cited its limited song capacity for iPod users accustomed to carrying thousands of songs.
“It doesn’t have the emotive cachet that the Razr or the iPod has,” said Yankee Group analyst John Jackson. “When you whip this out in the bar, nobody’s going to say, ‘That’s a cool device.’”
The Rokr iTunes phone will be available in Cingular stores on Thursday.
No. 1 U.S. mobile service Cingular Wireless, a venture of SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., will be the exclusive U.S. carrier of the phone, which it will sell for $249.99 to customers who sign up for a two-year service contract.
Cingular does not make money from the songs played on the phones, but hopes they will help boost sales and reduce customer defections to rival services. One analyst said it could become Cingular’s top-selling phone by next year.
“If this phone is easy to use, at this price I think it will fly off the shelves,” Charter Equity analyst Ed Snyder said. “Cingular will reap the benefits of the combination of Motorola and Apple’s brands.”
The phone does not allow for wireless downloads, but it does eliminate the need for carrying two separate gadgets.
Motorola said the phone would be available in the United Kingdom at Carphone Warehouse Group’s stores in mid-September and with operators such as O2, Orange, BT Mobile, Virgin Mobile this month or next.
In the coming months, it is also expected to be available in countries such as Germany, Canada, Italy and France.
Motorola’s chief marketing officer, Geoffrey Frost, said the phone – the first in a whole family of Rokr devices – would be followed by more stylish designs.
“As this continues to develop you’ll see it become as iconic as our other new products,” Frost said, referring to a new products inspired by its Razr phone.
Flexible
As it tests the market for music on mobile phones, Apple is free to work with other handset makers and cellular service providers, said Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing, in an interview.
“We have flexibility to do many things,” Schiller said. He declined to comment on the financial arrangements of Apple’s partnership with Motorola and Cingular.
Music is expected to be one of the hottest new features in mobile phones, which already sport everything from cameras to video players.
Apple has to keep up a steady pace of innovative new music products to maintain the level of growth investors now expect.
Shares of Apple fell 12 cents, or less than 1 percent, to close at $48.68 on Nasdaq. So far this year, the stock has gained 52 percent and trades at about 34 times its projected earnings per share in fiscal 2006. Apple’s fiscal year ends in September.
Apple said it was teaming with car makers Acura, Audi, Honda and Volkswagen to integrate its iPod products into their car stereos for 2006 model lines.
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My wife and I are donating to the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina relief fund. This disaster is probably the largest of its kind on US soil. I believe that our donation will truly be put to good use. However, I am both angry and saddened that we have spent more than $191 billion on the war in Iraq and now the Administration is calling on us as Americans to help ourselves. Apparently there isn’t enough aid to go around to help the devastated victims of New Orleans, due to the frivolous spending of the Administration. To add insult to injury, the Marines that are currently stationed in Iraq, could have been deployed to the scene to distrubute aid, emergency servcies and quell looting. Gas prices are now going up due to a major disaster in our own land. I beleive the Adminstration will have no choice but to focus fully on our own country.
I still miss left eye alot and I can’t believe she’s dead and I was waiting until her solo album to come out it’s just so sad she died at the age of 30 in a car accident from head trama and I was about to break down .
and I got love for chilli and t-boz to for being strong and just being tlc now and forever and not ever replacing left eye no matter what they went through together and I under stand and respect them for that because I would do the same thing because it’s right so peace & and love to left eye and family 2005.
Upon reading the fine print on the ProTools website, the application will NOT run on Windows XP, 2000, NT, 95, or 3.1. I don’t actually know anyone who is still on ME or 98. I imagine it’s a ploy to get the user to buy the fulll version. Good luck.
SPAS007: All new and original 8 track EP from Dsico That No-Talent Hack. No bootleges, no mashups. Raw Electronic Alt-Pop with guitars and vocals and stuff. Written and Performed by Luke Collison, recorded at Luke’s in Newtown/ Sydney. Great stuff!
BashPodder Was written and is maintained here by me (Linc) with the generous code contributions and great ideas of many of it’s users, some of whom have contributed modified scripts of their own. BashPodder was written to be small and fast, and most importantly, to conform to the KISS rule (Keep It Simple Stupid). That way, anyone can add to and detract from the script to suit their own needs (and they are welcome to do so). BashPodder is listed in many places as a “Linux” podcatching client, and in fact, that is what I wrote it for initially, however, it should be noted that I have dozens of emails telling me how well it works on everything else, including but not limited to MaxOSX, Solaris, AIX, Net Open and FreeBSD, even windows and many other OS’s I have forgotten I am sure.
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Came across drdrak.over-blog.com. Very cool assortment of topics and links. The retro stuff is great.
Plurn is an online playlist community, which is a folksonomy in the way it handles playlist content. Playlists can be browsed by tag, imort a page as a playlist and the new XSPF format is supported. The site has very nice text based look.
MPC Pad 187 is a full program editor for the Akai MPC 1000. The application allows for easy editing and creation of MPC 1000 program files. It can edit all values that are found in the Slider, Mixer, and Program modes of the MPC 1000 (Pads 1, 8, and 7) including their sub-windows.
The application also has some extra features such as the ability to assign note layout chromatically, auditioning of samples directly from the program, and concurrent editing of multiple programs.
New Features in version 1.1:
* Drag and drop samples to pads. Over 250 samples can be assigned at once!
* Drag samples between program files
* Drag samples out of program files into external audio editors
* Audition samples by clicking the pads
* Keyboard navigation shortcuts
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3
Cost: Free
Since the movie is coming out I decided to see what happened to Douglas Adams h2g2 idea. It’s funny how much wikipedia is similar. Maybe because it was commercial it never flourished, anyway I consider the late Mr. Adams to be the inventor of the idea. I found these article interesting:
Venue: Acme Game Store & Gallery 1988
Event: “I Am 8-bit” Art Opening
Address: 7018 & 7020 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 (Corner of Melrose & La Brea)
URL: http://iam8bit.net
Time: 7pm - ?
Cost: free?
Bar: Suicide Girls
Comments: This is the opening night party for the “I Am 8-Bit” art exhibit at Gallery 1988. The exhibit features tons of 8-bit video game inspired artwork. The samples we’ve seen so far are wicked awesome!
Read all about it at the Game Informer Online
8 Bit Weapon at The Echo
Venue: The Echo
Event: Hang the DJs
Address: 1822 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
URL: Hang the DJs MySpace Page
Time: 9pm - ?
Cost: $?
Comments: 18+ !!! Performing with 8-Bit Rap Krew and other bands (we think)
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Kingston, ON - Avril Lavigne’s heart-felt song, “I’m With You", has been selected as the first song to fill the skies over Toronto, Canada in an upcoming acoustic magic show developed by Reichen Minogue of IMXLabs.com. Dubbed as the “show to end all shows", Minogue prepares the Canadian population for a “grand event” which will “dazzle humanity".
“The concept is a magical performance unlike any other prior magic-based stage production. Using advances in acoustic broadcasting and quantum sonic mechanics, we have eliminated the need for speakers outright. Music will literally engulf the entire greater Toronto area leaving no space void of Avril Lavigne’s voice. Her song will be heard in the middle of the night by no less than five million people during a single daily broadcast to be repeated over fourteen subsequent days", he stated during a recent telephone interview.
The show has been titled as ‘The Gabriel’s Trumpet Project’ and is currently still within pre-production in Cairo, Egypt by Artist Group Agency (AGA) and Reichen Group Corp (RGC).
No show date has been released.
Source: popmusic.org
Project Website: www.musicfromthesky.com
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