Archive for the 'Music' Category

Amazon.com is Now Selling $.89 DRM Free MP3s

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I am a bit old school when it comes to my music, I still like to buy CDs and rip them. iTunes doesn’t work for me, my Linux box, & other audio devices. And I always had to jump through hoops to play my music my way. Now I can download plain old [...]

Poison Sells Out To Microsoft! Say It Ain’t So

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

To my disappointment it seems like my favorite band has sold out to Microsoft. Is the XBox really “Nothing But a Good Time”? For me it is more like an “Unskinny Bop” or “Every Rose’s Thorn”. If you ask me, the Wii is much better! ;)
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I am a YouTube Hero!

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Well not really, but a video I posted almost a year ago has had over 11,000 views. That is 30+ hits a day. I am actually the #1 result when you search for Alma Llanera on YouTube. I am not sure why anybody cares, probably just people passing by.
This was a performance by [...]

Zebrahead’s Website Uses Coldfusion!

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Zebrahead (one of my favorite bands) uses ColdFusion for their shopping cart. It also appears that they use Flash/Dreamweaver for the rest of their website.

Rockin’ With TuxGuitar!!!

Monday, July 16th, 2007

I have used GuitarPro for years, and have absolutely loved it. I have had pretty good success on running GuitarPro on Linux using Wine. I looked a few times, but never found an open source alternative that lived up to my standards. On occasion, I would open up Ubuntu’s Add/Remove [...]

Awsome Music Programs for Gnu/Linux

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

In my spare time I spend a bit of time playing, composing music, & recording. I have found a few Linux application that I have find useful in these tasks.

GNU Solfege (A Free Ear Training Program)
Audacity (Audio Editor and Recorder)
LilyPond (Music Notation & Printing Software)
Hydrogen (advanced drum machine)
GTick (metronome application)