Musicast turns your iTunes (mac only) into a music sharing server that conveniently spits out a podcast feed for your friends to subscribe and download all your mp3s from.
Download this quick before
the RIAA kills the server something might happen to this wonderful app.
posted by mathowie
on Aug 30, 2006 -
37 comments
Roadcasting is an idea bandied about for ages: create ad-hoc low power FM networks that let you share the mp3 music you're hearing in your car with those driving around you. It's basically a blueprint for shared pirate radio as you drive, surfing the dial for a variety of music from nearby motorists. They've got
screenshots and
source code and it looks
just like the system imagined in Cory Doctorow's books. I can't wait to see where this project is headed. [via
unmediated]
posted by mathowie
on May 22, 2005 -
37 comments
A digital camera that plays mp3s? Convergence is a steam train that can't be stopped. In the future, will every piece of electronics priced over $100 include a mp3 player in it? Stuff like this makes me think the mp3 format will definitely surpass CDs and tapes as a delivery medium. Too bad the record companies still want to stop it, they're losing money everyday by not offering mp3 albums.
posted by mathowie
on Jun 4, 2000 -
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My Winamp Locker appears to be a free online storage space for your music files, hosted by Winamp. At 3Gb, and the offer of sharing and listening to your songs anywhere, how on earth do they expect to A) make any money back from all the server hardware they'll buy to support this, and B) not get sued by the RIAA? I thought it'd be a great service to exploit for my personal 2-3Gb collection, but it turns out you have to upload your files one at a time. ugh.
posted by mathowie
on May 31, 2000 -
6 comments
Convergence baby! Sony has released a Minidisc Player/Recorder, MP3 player with USB connectivity, and PalmOS PDA, all wedged into one small unit. Wow, that's enough buzzwords to kill a horse...
posted by mathowie
on Apr 4, 2000 -
4 comments
I was looking through my old posts, and found a mention of
mp3lit.com from several months back (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm going to the well for new material...). It's still just spoken word mp3s for download, but the quantity and quality seems to have gone up considerably. There's a great fiction piece by
Parker Posey (mmmm...Parrrkerrr Pooooseeeey), one of my favorite musicians
Nick Cave talking about religion,
Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo doing some self-help stuff,
Bill Bradley talking about affirmative action, and hey look!
Douglas Coupland is doing a live event next Friday!
posted by mathowie
on Jan 21, 2000 -
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(as seen on /.) A new
wristwatch from Casio that doubles as a MP3 player. Seems goofy at first, but I'd love to have something that small to listen to music while running. It beats a walkman or Rio any day in terms of size, why carry one of those when you can have tunes on your wrist? (
now if I just hook up some speakers in a baseball cap :)
posted by mathowie
on Jan 8, 2000 -
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(via /.) comes the much-rumored new
4.8 Gb personal mp3 player. I heard about this a long time ago, but it seemed like a fantasy. 4.8 gigs! That's hours and hours of mp3's! My entire collection at home and work is less than 4 gigs. They claim it's going to be released next week. If they can sell if for under $300, I bet they won't be able to produce enough for the demand. The revolution has begun.
posted by mathowie
on Nov 10, 1999 -
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If you haven't heard of Napster yet, check it out. This is a killer tool, a combination mp3 player and file transfer client/server. While you play mp3s, other users can download songs from your library, while you do the same from their libraries. This is a great idea but must be a nightmare for the recording industry. This could be a really cool community tool, if everyone is generous with their music.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 29, 1999 -
1 comment
Dontcha hate it when something like
Winamp gets bought out by AOL? It crashes a bit too much on my home system so I went looking for alternatives and was glad when I found
FreeAMP (it's GPL'ed to boot!). Take the high road, use the mp3 player that guarantees no AOL buyouts on your desktop.
posted by mathowie
on Sep 23, 1999 -
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Wow, a killer new site:
mp3lit.com. Listen to books in mp3 format. Wouldn't it be great if this was
Shoutcasted and a global wireless broadband network was in place so you could hear it in your car or walking around? Another cool thing would be if they hooked up with
The Gutenburg Project and had audio versions of all those free texts.
posted by mathowie
on Sep 21, 1999 -
0 comments
