It seems that if you have a website or a blog, and you need a free lightweight javascript MP3 player to play files then Delicious has one that you can use free of charge. It’s called playTagger.
You can get it here and you can see it in action by going to the MP3 page on Delicious. Just click on the small blue arrow to the left of the link to start the file.
It’s easy to install on your own blog. It’s just one line of script! It’s so easy even I can do it.
I often get mocked for liking Robbie Williams’ music (except for Americans who say “Robbie who?”) but I happen to think that Robbie is one of the few singers today that can actually sing as opposed to the multitude of “singers” out there that just mime.
Plus I have an empathy with Robbie because of his manic depression which he talked about with Stephen Fry on the programme “The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive“.
Anyway, here’s today’s song which I am listening to while I surf the net for stories. Robbie’s “Tripping” performed live in Berlin.
Due to a particularly bad day today, I really needed some pick-me-up music. So I went hunting on YouTube for Simon and Garfunkel. This clip is taken from their “Old Friends: Live on Stage” reunion tour at Madison Square Garden in 2003. Crank up the volume and start shaking that ass!
While you’re dancing around the Bavarian mountains getting all Sound Of Music-y and with the sound of volksmusik humming in your ears, what you need to complete the ensemble is a pair of MP3 lederhosen pants!
So with your blonde Frau on one arm and with your beer in the other hand, you can wander the German countryside with your music MP3 controls in your pants!
YouTube has become embroiled in the alleged equivalent of a vote-rigging scandal after a banal music clip became the most popular video in the site’s history, in what many believe were suspicious circumstances.
The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is presently “in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.”
Building a media server gives you access to all of your tunes from anywhere in your house. You’ll be able to search for songs and play them back whether you’re in your kitchen, living room or your home office, regardless of where in your home your media server sits. If you’re extra savvy, you can also set up your server to be accessible over the internet.
You know what’s really better than therapy? Being able to sing along to your favourite songs. With no-one else in the vicinity to hear you and to be able to sing at the top of your voice, strumming an imaginary guitar and playing to an imaginary adoring crowd.
The problem is that to fully complete that Bono fantasy of yours, you need to know all the words to the song and not go “hmm….hmmm…..hmmm” throughout the song. Inventing alternate words is also not the right way to go (although crazy Al Yankovitch has done very well in his career doing precisely that).
The solution - have a small software program that automatically loads up the lyrics to a song when it starts playing. This is what EvilLyrics does.
It is compatible with the major audio players (such as Winamp and iTunes) and when a song starts, EvilLyrics opens a small browser window to give you the lyrics so you can sing along.
Which doesn’t bode well for the neighbour who now has to listen to me belt out Bobby Darin’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade”.
May 7, 2008
It seems that if you have a website or a blog, and you need a free lightweight javascript MP3 player to play files then Delicious has one that you can use free of charge. It’s called playTagger.
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The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is presently “in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.”
You know what’s really better than therapy? Being able to sing along to your favourite songs. With no-one else in the vicinity to hear you and to be able to sing at the top of your voice, strumming an imaginary guitar and playing to an imaginary adoring crowd.
