Tag: music

Songify delights as a mobile app

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  1. one part nonsense
  2. two parts mobile voice recorder and portable synthesizer
  3. a silly but popular vocal effect
  4. a handful of simple algorithms to sample and partition a recording
  5. one part mini game to blindly time your lyrics to the automated loops
  6. and a team sharp enough to recognize and build a micro business

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For Your Ears Only, Karaoke for One

Booze and bad singers don’t mix

We were out last night celebrating Michelle’s sister Stephanie’s 25th birthday at Viva Juan 2. For locals the Arroz con Pollo was good, but it’s better at Don Quixotes. There were a couple of people that could hold a tune, and their songs were a blessing. But everyone else remorselessly squealed through the lyrics off key and at incredibly tortuous amplified volume.

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Music Management Feature Gap for iOS and Apple

Last week I loaded up on a hundred+ Drum and Bass and mixed Electronica tracks thanks to Pandora’s discovery engine and the Music Genome project. But I’m having trouble configuring a set of playlists for my favorites which changes with time. Out of the mixed albums I purchased I may decide to regularly listen to only half or fewer of the tracks after a few listening cycles.

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House of the Rising Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Pm1XeQHLk

Every so often the morning mall radio will surprise me with great music. For the past couple of years it was terrible pop music. More recently the ethereal Simon’s Mall DJ has switched to an oldies station, an appropriate selection for the retired walking crowd plus me.

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