Cultura 2006

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Ah it's that time of year again. Macworld announcements, and now this. Thanks jeantue for this wonderful distraction. for those of you unattuned, this is just a casual list of friends that send around a list of their favorite cultural distractions for the previous year. I think it's a fine tradition. ...

Sealing the crack

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

One of my biggest pet peeves about iTunes has finally been corrected. The Gapless Playback feature is described thusly: Live albums, classical works, or any work that sounds best when it���s continuous, now seamlessly transitions from one song to another I had been importing certain CDs as single files just to get ...

¡Contrapodcastista!

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Now finally, something to report of deep significance. Huge. I think I've found the first instance of a podcast dedicated exclusively to double bassists: The BassCast, all the way from Tenerife! I must say, one of the finest podcasts I've subscribed to. Well, I only heard the most recent episode, but I'm ...

Audio Avitars

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I found the iTunes Signature Maker at the blog of Ryan Shaw this evening. Extremely cool little idea to take your iTunes playlist and make a short little audio avitar of your musical tastes. Here is mine. The creation of the file requires you to trust a Java applet to scan ...

Fantasia on classical downloads

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Recently I had been looking for a recording of the Fantasia for Gutar and Piano by Mario Casteluovo-Tedesco. I was able to find numerous references to the work, but every site I tried listed these CDs as being out of print, or at least out of stock. Not a popular ...