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November 21, 2005Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
If you're interested in sound recordings at all, especially early sound recordings, you'll love this project of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of California, Santa Barbara. It's a site with 5,000 cylinder recordings -- recordings...
Continue reading "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project" » September 30, 2005Finding MP3 and Other Media Via Del.Icio.Us and Blogdigger
Lifehacker has a nice overview about how to find MP3s and other multimedia through del.icio.us. I love Del RSS feeds. They're great. I subscribe to a bunch of 'em. If you're looking at other ways to get MP3s flowing your...
Continue reading "Finding MP3 and Other Media Via Del.Icio.Us and Blogdigger" » May 29, 2005Extremely Cool Collection of 78s At Internet Archive
I don't know why I haven't mentioned this cool collection of 78s at the Internet Archive before. They're available at http://www.archive.org/audio/audiolisting-browseartists.php?collection=78rpm . The page I'm pointing to leads to a list of musicians. You may recognize here Al Jolson, Bing...
Continue reading "Extremely Cool Collection of 78s At Internet Archive" » February 15, 2005Search Engine for iPod Information and Items
All the cool kids have iPods these days, it seems. If you're a cool kid or want to be a cool kid, check out the new search engine for iPods, FINDiPod.com ( http://www.findipod.com/ ) Looks like it's a meta-search engine...
Continue reading "Search Engine for iPod Information and Items" » December 17, 2004Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands
Sure sure, you can go look up those bands that REALLY exist, but how about those bands which only exist in people's imaginations! Check out the Fakebandica, at http://www.fakebands.com/ , an encyclopedia of fake bands that appear in TV and...
December 06, 2004Singingfish Launches New Search Destination
Singingfish has launched a new multimedia search which is now available at http://www.singingfish.com . Please note that Singingfish does not to my knowledge have anything to do with the recently-reviewed GoFish; what multimedia has to do so exclusively with fish...
Continue reading "Singingfish Launches New Search Destination" » December 01, 2004Do You Have Any.... Music? No? Go Fish.
If you're more interested in searching for media than text, try the new search engine GoFish, which claims to search 12 million media files. Media in this case includes ring tones, audio, video, and video games (video games?) It's available...
Continue reading "Do You Have Any.... Music? No? Go Fish." » June 23, 2004Directory of Independent Record Stores Searchable by State
When I first saw this directory of independent record stores, I thought "Cool!" Then I saw down at the bottom of the page that it was "© 2004 Sony Music Entertainment Inc." and thought, "H'm?" But it's still a handy...
Continue reading "Directory of Independent Record Stores Searchable by State" » May 03, 2004CNET Announces "Music Discovery Service"
CNET has announced a new "music discovery" and download service, now available at http://music.download.com . With the dismantling of MP3.com I was very happy to see a new alternative available, though it looks like it's going to take a while...
Continue reading "CNET Announces "Music Discovery Service"" » September 03, 2003Links for Songwriting Inspiration
If you need some help with your songwriting, check out the Muse's Muse Songwriting Resource at http://www.musesmuse.com/ . There are a variety of resources here, including a newsletter, featured reading resources, and a message board, but we're going to concentrate...
December 25, 2002Vintage Phonograph Recordings
One of my favorite things about the Library of Congress site is the online collections of old music and old film. It's not part of the LOC, but Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine, at http://www.dismuke.org/ , is an equally great visit....
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