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Spotify – Streaming Audio Done Right
Spotify is a new audio streaming service that is unlike most of those that have gone before it. Once you have downloaded the app ( Windows and Mac versions available ) you have a world of music available to listen to with no downloading required. Unlike other streaming services Spotify streams are high quality 160 kb/s Ogg files and begin playing the instant you click on a track with no signs of buffering or delays in startup.
Spotify has signed a number of deals with record labels and distributers who provide the content for the service. Currently the free services is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain with other countries coming soon.
Gates Vs Jobs – Funny Video
Hot on the heals of Melinda Gates Dirty Secret Video comes this hilarious spoof cartoon video of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs doing battle. Excellent stuff.
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Melinda Gates Spoof Video – Dirty Secrets
This video from Funny or Die is hilarious, very well thought out.
BBC iPlayer Comes To iPhone and iPod Touch
Posted by Scott in Apple, Entertainment, iPod/iTunes on November 15, 2008
The BBC have today launched availability of iPlayer content on iPhone and iPod Touch, making the Apple hardware the first mobile devices to support the streaming TV service. The content is encoded as a 516Kbps stream so it will only play via WiFi on both devices as the EDGE connection of the iPhone is not fast enough to operate effectively.
The Web site access has not been optimised for the iPhone interface so to actually select the programme you require involves a fair amount of zooming and panning of the page. Hopefully this is a short term thing and the Beeb will improve the front end for easier navigation. What I can say though is that the video actually looks superb on with not stuttering or pixellation what so ever.
Download TV From BBC iPlayer On Your Mac
Posted by Scott in Apple, Entertainment, Headline, Hints And Tips on October 8, 2008
So far the BBC have failed to deliver on their promise to produce an OSX and Linux application for downloading content from their online TV site ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer ), so non-Windows users have to settle for live streaming in a web browser. Whilst this works fine it does mean that you need to have a reasonable broadband link AND be restricted to watching the limited amount of content that is available through the site ( shows are automatically removed after a few days ).
One developer, Paul Battley from London, has come up with a neat solution to this problem though. When the BBC launched the iPlayer for iPhone site they had to provide a way of displaying videos on a device that did not have Adobes Flash Player, and so re-encoded the videos into MP4 files for display on the Jesus Phone. Paul used this site to create a small Ruby script that allows you to download the iPod playable videos and save them to your computer.
BBC iPlayer Comes To iPhone and iPod Touch
Posted by Scott in Apple, Entertainment, iPod/iTunes on March 7, 2008
The BBC have today launched availability of iPlayer content on iPhone and iPod Touch, making the Apple hardware the first mobile devices to support the streaming TV service. The content is encoded as a 516Kbps stream so it will only play via WiFi on both devices as the EDGE connection of the iPhone is not fast enough to operate effectively.
The Web site access has not been optimised for the iPhone interface so to actually select the programme you require involves a fair amount of zooming and panning of the page. Hopefully this is a short term thing and the Beeb will improve the front end for easier navigation. What I can say though is that the video actually looks superb on with not stuttering or pixellation what so ever.
How To Find MP3 Bootleg Recordings
In years gone by the Record Fair was the preferred way of getting hold of bootleg recordings for your favourite artists. Nowadays of course the MP3 has replaced the audio cassette and iTunes and Amazon serve a greater and greater percentage of the music buying publics needs and the record fair has faded into the past.
There are of course a number of sites that have good collections of rare and bootleg MP3 recordings some of which are shown below. These are largely soundboard or FM radio recordings rather than the typical poor audience recordings so they are usually well worth the time to download.
JetMan On Facebook – Very Addictive
Posted by Scott in Entertainment on January 4, 2008
Warner Music Group Go DRM Free With Amazon Online Store
In a surprise move Warner Music Group have announced that they are going to be selling DRM free music tracks through a deal with Amazons Online Music store. AppleInsider have the following coverage of the announcment.
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