gHacks technology news » album http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 12:57:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4124 Soundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that’s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no personal data or password is required to generate the feed.

Well, actually it’s two feeds that are created. The first lists the upcoming releases while the second lists the releases of the previous year. I tested it with several usernames and it is working fine. It takes anywhere between 1 and 30 minutes before the feed displays the releases according to the Soundamus website although I was able to see the first items after less than a minute.

The feed items list information such as name of the album and release date. It also contains several links to pages that contain further information, some of them are located on Last.fm, some on the Soundamus website. There is also an option to add the date to Google Calendar and to buy the CD from a online shop.

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The page of the release at the Soundamus website is surprisingly clean and lists similar artists and their releases. Again with links to all kinds of sites including Last.fm.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/feed/ 3 Radiohead is trying a new distribution method http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/01/radiohead-is-trying-a-new-distribution-method/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/01/radiohead-is-trying-a-new-distribution-method/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:18:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/01/radiohead-is-trying-a-new-distribution-method/ Radiohead is a well known English rock band which was formed in 1986. They currently are under no contract with a major record label and are therefor trying to distribute their upcoming album called In Rainbows which will be released October 10, 2007 and exclusively available for purchase on an Internet website.

What makes this rather unique is the approach of the band. Instead of asking for a certain price for the album they let the fans decide what they would like to pay for it. Yes, that is right, you can pay $0 or $100 or even more if you like. Everyone may download the In Rainbows album afterwards.

Even if you select to pay $0 for the album – or better a digital download of it – you have to pay a fee for the credit card transaction. This is however a very interesting experiment which will most likely be a success for Radiohead.

A discbox will also be released which is essentially a double vinyl/double CD release. Everyone purchasing the discbox may also download the music from the website. The discbox will be priced at £40 including shipping and handling.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/01/radiohead-is-trying-a-new-distribution-method/feed/ 0 Free Album Art Cover Downloader http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:14:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/15/free-album-art-cover-downloader/ Many portable media players and software players support album cover art which is displayed when a song is played from within the player. Most players unfortunately do not have a feature that automatically searches for and downloads album cover art for the album s that you have stored on your computer. One of the tools that can help you if you like to have album cover art displayed is Album Cover Art Downloader.

Album Cover Art Downloader can be downloaded for Windows, various Linux distributions and as a source code if you want to compile it for yourself. It displays a list of albums that are stored on your computer and offers the functionality to search for album art for that album. It searches Amazon, Buy.com, Yahoo and Walmart for images and displays them in a sidebar. You may pick the best image that fits and it will be automatically downloaded and added to all mp3 files that belong to that album.

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