And this is why you pay attention in class, kids.

So I'm curious. How many of you out there manage your own files for music vs use a streaming service?

If you stream your own files to your phone, that would count as the first option since you own the files.

If you use a streaming service, either free or paid, that's the second option. For the sake of simplicity we'll even include radio here.

I added a bunch of CLI options to shape the sound of my MP3 glitching script! Here's a demo of some of the possibilities:

https://github.com/reillypascal/mp3glitch

O Soulseek continua existindo? Onde se pode baixar #MP3 mais facilmente hoje? Eu continuo extraindo as músicas dos canais que visito na Web, isso quando não compro os discos.

Giving #navidrome on my Nas a try.

I recently noticed that I don't listen to my MP3s a lot because I don't like my #MP3 player app.

Now I took the opportunity to try getting away from having my music in the cloud and just have it on my local nas via vpn.

Another tiny step out of US corporate clouds.

Does anyone know of any legal MP3 music download stores that operate in Australia, other than Qobuz and ZDigital? Amazon Music apparently doesn't... #music #Australia #mp3

Aujourd’hui je prends le train. C’est donc le moment idéal de tester mon petit lecteur mp3 (qui ne fait que ça). C’est aussi le moyen de redécouvrir les sagas mp3 que j’écoutais en boucle comme adoprixtoxis ou encore les aventuriers du survivaure. Jusqu’ici je me marre fort (on me regarde bizarrement dans le train ). En vrai ce petit lecteur est vraiment cool et il tient dans la main ! Il a aussi la radio FM mais je n’ai pas encore testé cette option ^^ #mp3 #3615mavie #train #sagamp3

It's Tangara time: first impressions of a new open hardware MP3 player

https://tinkerbetter.tube/videos/watch/4e1faacb-f4a6-44dc-ba7e-bd8268e33763

RIP Bill Fay

I’m ashamed to admit I hadn’t thought about him in a long time.

And, as it always is, the reason to remember inevitably presents itself, one way or another.

On this particular photo he reminds me late poet, songwriter and friend Vassia Borodin, which makes me actually cry.

(01/04)

@music @bandcamp #music #singersongwriter #songwriter #folk #psychofolk #mp3 #outsider #hippie #70s #1970s #folk

Macrocosm - avant-garde electronic music composition by yours truly

https://phracker.bandcamp.com/track/macrocosm

Question to people who have or want to start a local digital music collection: What do you want from a naming convention?

I had a planned naming convention, but I want to make sure the program I’m working on is useful to other people. My existing goal was to make a naming convention that is unlikely to be rejected, will be sorted sanely by even the most basic systems, and is consistently machine-readable.

My solution was to have the file name be a series of structured “tags.” For example:

• BY-lemon-demon_IN-dinosaurchestra_NO-02_action-movie-hero-boy.flac

Tags can be used zero or more times in one file name and in any order, except the title which must be used only once and at the end. Tags should go from the most general grouping (usually an artist name) to the most specific part (the title). This way songs that are in the same category will be grouped together.

Is this a good naming convention for you, and what would you do differently?

Streaming's great for providing access to a vast music catalog. That is until the platform restricts or removes access to songs, albums, artists. What they can't take is my archive of mp3s from a quarter century ago ... just sayin'! Arrrrr ye matey!

The sensitivity index: Corrupting Y2K

by @beet_keeper

In December I asked “What will you bitflip today?” Not long after, Johan’s (@bitsgalore) Digtial Dark Age Crew released its long lost hidden single Y2K — well, I couldn’t resist corrupting it.

Fixity is an interesting property enabled by digital technologies. Checksums allow us to demonstrate mathematically that a file has not been changed. An often cited definition of fixity is:

Fixity, in the preservation sense, means the assurance that a digital file has remained unchanged, i.e. fixed — Bailey (2014)

It’s very much linked to the concept of integrity. A UNESCO definition of which:

The state of being whole, uncorrupted and free of unauthorized and undocumented changes.

Integrity is massively important at this time in history. It gives us the guarantees we need that digital objects we work with aren’t harboring their own sinister secrets in the form of malware and other potentially damaging payloads.

These values are contingent on bit-level preservation, the field of digital preservation largely assumes this; that we will be able to look after our content without losing information. As feasible as this may be these days, what happens if we lose some information? Where does authenticity come into play?

Through corrupting Y2K, I took time to reflect on integrity versus authenticity, as well as create some interesting glitched outputs. I also uncovered what may be the first audio that reveals what the Millennium Bug itself may have sounded like! Keen to hear it? Read on to find out more.

A Cassette Tape plays MP3’s.

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to [and recording] music througout the 80s & 90s and were in every hi-fi stereo vehicle of the era. With this [Fancy Cassette Tape], there’s nothing left to do but pair it to a smartphone or other music-playing device and push play on the nearest tape deck, to listening MP3’s on old devices.

https://youtu.be/yFBVTpooZD0

You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free

｢ The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal ｣

https://idiallo.com/blog/listen-mp3-is-free

The integrated Audio Converter in #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS can now convert raw ".aac" audio files into many other formats, like .m4a, which are usually better suited for playback with other software:

https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=594#p594