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October 22, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Cool Links, Music, Online - written by Roshan Jonnalagadda
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Soundsnap is a great platform where you can find and share free sound effects and loops. So you might ask where do these sounds effects and loops come from, well It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s. This is exactly what makes it legal.
It was originally started by a small group of so called “sound people” from all over the world. Their belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not!
Their users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too. They encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping them make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap. I like the domain name as it seems pretty relevant and interesting but very hard to find in near future.
Some of things that Soundsnap shouldn’t be used for are:
- An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
- A place to upload your band’s songs or your favourite mp3’s. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
- A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.
I love to promote this company as it is free to use and as i am a lover of open-source. Hope to see this company grow huge on the net.
Please share your thoughts and opinions on this great music sharing website.
August 14, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Music, Software, Tips - written by Roshan Jonnalagadda
I found a free version of software that will show song lyrics as it plays and the software is called EvilLyrics. Evil Lyrics automatically searches for lyrics as your song is played in your player.
- Searches over 15,000,000 lyrics
- Karaoke: create & share timestamps
- Stores lyrics for offline viewing
- Translates lyrics
- Allows searching for guitar chords, AMG profiles, album covers arts, posters etc.
- Only 800 kB installation file
It supports wide range of players including Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Yahoo Music Engine.
The great thing about this software is that it is not only free to use but also has addon which adds additional functionalities to the program just like wordpress :-)
Happy Lyricing!
August 13, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Music, Software, Tips - written by Roshan Jonnalagadda
I know many who are interested in ripping as it is free to do. Well, in some cases it is not as you don’t know which software to use and even if you know, it might cost you to buy it. I found a couple pieces of software that can rip music from music CDs.
You can use Audiograbber, CDex, EAC = Exact Audio Copy.
Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd’s. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3’s. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP’s or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav’s or MP3’s of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!
Advantages:
- Easy to use interface
- Include a documentation (Help File)
- Easy to configure to your needs!
CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :
- It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
- It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.
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Happy CD Ripping!
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