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History of MP3
By admin | January 9, 2012
Mp3 technology was developed by a German Company Fraunhofer -Gesellshaft which now licenses the patent rights to the audio compression technology. There are two names mostly associated with the development of the MP3. The Fraunhofer institute helped with the audio encoding buy Dieter Seitzer, a professor at the University of Erlanger. Dieter Seitzer worked on the quality transfer of music over a standard phone line. This research was being led by Karl Heinz Branden Burg who is also called the "father of MP3". Karl Heinz was a specialist in mathematics and electronics and was involved in researching methods to compress music since 1977. Timeline of MP3 In 1987, the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany began research code named Eureka project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting. In the month of January 1988, Moving Pictures Expert Group or MPEG was established as a subcommittee of the International standards organization. In April 1989, a German patent was received by Fraunhofer for MP3. In the year 1992, Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer's audio encoding algorithm was integrated into MPEG -1
In the year 1993, MPEG-1 standard was published. In 1994, MPEG-2 was developed and published a year later. In the month of November 1996, United States patent was issued for MP3. In September 1998, Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights whereby all developers of MP3 encoders or rippers were obliged to pay a licensing fee to Fraunhofer. In February 1999, a record company named SubPop started to distribute music tracks in MP3 format. In the same year portable mp3 players appeared. Power of Mp3 Mp3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer 3 and it is a standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or no loss of sound quality. MPEG sound encoding can shrink down the original sound data from a CD by a factor of 12, without losing the sound quality.
Mp3 players In the early 1990, Fraunhofer developed the first and unsuccessful mp3 player. Later in 1997, developer Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia products invented the AMP MP3 playback engine that was the first successful MP3 player. For more details, log on to freedownloadmp3song.info
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Hold the Most No. 1 Modern Rock Hits
By admin | October 7, 2011
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a popular rock band formed in 1983, based out of California. Current band members include: Anthony Kiedis (lead vocals), Michael Balzary, or Flea (Bass), John Frusciante (Guitar/Backing vocals), and Chad Smith (Drums). While the rock band has gone through several line-up changes and personal conflicts, the band has managed to consistently create very diverse music that combines elements of funk, punk, metal, psychedelic rock, rap, and even pop rock. The band holds the record for the most #1 Modern Rock hits with nine under their belt, having sold a combined estimate of 50 million copies of their nine studio albums over the past 23 years.
The band was originally formed for what was going to be a one-time performance in 1983, but would later land a record deal with EMI. 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was the group's first album to enter the Billboard Top 200, but it was not until the band moved to Warner Brothers Records did the group achieve major success. In 1991, the band released their fifth album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which would go on to sell seven million copies in the U.S. A year after its debut, the album still managed to climb to the #3 spot on the U.S. album charts. The band would win a Grammy award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal in 1992 for the album's single, Give it Away.
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Start Your Own Sheet Music Collection
By admin | October 7, 2011
Starting a sheet music collection is easy, once you've decided what you want to collect. Sheet music is inexpensive and relatively easy to find. You can find music at yard sales, antique shows and on the internet. Only music that is very scarce or rare is expensive. Most pieces can be found at a price between three and twenty five dollars. Extremely rare sheet music can carry a price of up to a thousand dollars, but few pieces fall into this category. You will find music in any color graphic or subject matter you are looking for.
People collect sheet music in many ways. Sometimes sheet music is collected by the genre or songs. You could put together a history of music in America with a sheet music collection. You could do this with the entire history of our country or concentrate on one time period or decade. The possibilities are endless – be creative when building your collection! Songs have been written about most important events in our history, including wars, plane crashes and natural disasters. Themes such as love or the evolution of images of women in music are popular themes for sheet music collections. Other collectors focus on one composer or cover artist. Read the rest of this entry »
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Download of MP3
By admin | September 15, 2011
. Internet was a big question mark than and so I think every one is glad; of not only downloading MP3 player but downloading it for free is what makes a difference.
But now, MP3 download is not only easy but it is free and it can be downloaded from http://www.mp3-lil-wayne.com/ . The website features largest selection of unlimited downloads, which are 100% safe, there are no fees what so ever. The downloads are 150% faster, you can easily play music in computer stereo or car, free friendly technical support is available, there is free software to burn CDs and DVDs, there is no pop ups, spam and adware and the software is compatible to Macintosh and AOL as well.
The downloads of lil wayne are the mix tapes of the music videos which are all free to download. This site is one of the rare because it doesn't charge for mp3's download. There are very good testimonials on lil wayne site.
Many young people nowadays are downloading MP3's but they pay a price for it, I remember people I know who are listening to MP3 by downloading them from other sites and pay a booming price. Read the rest of this entry »
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Where do you find lyrics online?
By admin | September 15, 2011
Many people download lyrics off from the internet today. Having done that they many times wish that they did buy the disc as even the legal downloads do not come with any lyrics to the songs that they have. Finding lyrics online is easy with the growth of the internet but intergrating them with your mp3 software might not be as easy as what many think.
With so many download services on the internet today, most companies still ignore the issue of lyrics as most uses would like to have the music with the lyrics. So how do you get your lyrics onto your mp3 player?
Just as there are many lyrics sites, there is today a huge variety of shareware developers who have created plugins for most of the devices on the market. Now you can import the lyrics into your IPod or MP3 player for most music bought on the internet. A good example is the iTunes tracker software that which connects online to retrieve your lyrics. The software not only allows you to organize the lyrics but also to save, edit and store them.
The software is very simple when reading lyrics. The progams are similiar to to the first version on Windows Player where it would read the file to extract the name of the song and the artist. What most of these software packages does is merely to connect to the internet after completing the same process and downloading the lyrics for the song that it had identified. The technology for find lyrics is not new. Read the rest of this entry »
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A History Of Country Music
By admin | August 22, 2011
Musicians have long been playing fiddle music in the Appalachians for years, but it wasn't until 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee that the first recording country music recording deal was signed. In this year, Victor Records signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.
Jimmie Rodgers was born in Meridian Mississippi, in 1897. Originally he worked on the railroads until his ill health got the better of him and it was only during this time that he followed his earlier love of entertaining. In 1927 he followed word that Victor Records were setting up a portable recording studio and made his way there. He was immediately signed and continued recording and playing music until he died in 1933. Read the rest of this entry »
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Music Therapy
By admin | August 7, 2011
Music, they say, soothes the savage beast and this is so true when we consider how music in its magical way works on our body rhythms bring harmony, literally, back into the body.
A story is told in the Bible of a King named Saul, who had an evil spirit that would torment him and make him feel terrible. It was suggested that they find someone who could play he harp and then the evil spirit would leave and King Saul would feel better. So they searched and found a young shepherd boy named David and he was commissioned to play for Saul whenever the evil spirit came upon him.
Whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him. 1 Samuel 16:23(KJV)
Researchers have found that certain types of music are more uplifting to the soul than others. Although you may think that a way to relax would be to listen to your favorite rock band, you are sadly mistaken. This will only rev up your engines and make you more stressed than when you started out. No, the way to personal harmony must come from a very specific kind of music. Not all music relaxes, you must personally feel more relaxed, your breathing must become slower and deeper for music to have a relaxing effect on you.
According to composer and music researcher Stephen Halpern Ph.D., "Music is not all that meets the ear. If you were to have earplugs in your ears, you cold still 'feel the music'" he explains. "That's because music is vibrations. And these vibrations affect your heartbeat, blood flow, brain waves – your entire body chemistry.
So it is by our body responses that we can tell if music is truly relaxing us or not.
In order to truly enjoy the music it is best if you can get yourself focused on it by either sitting still or lying down and really soak it in.
I realize that there are times when you just can't do this and just listening while going about your work is better than nothing, but it will not have the same effect as actually absorbing yourself in it.
I personally love to just run a hot bath with my favorite aroma, lavender. Then I light candles around the bathroom and turn off all of the lights. This is my special time when I can relax and toss away the cares of the day. In the living room, right next to the bathroom, I have beautiful classical or new age music playing softly. As it permeates the room, mixed with the scent of my bath and candles, I am in another world, totally relaxed without a care in the world.
Music, in my view, is the most influential and powerful therapy that you can provide yourself. It not only affects your soul, but your body and spirit as well.
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Midi Sequencer - Music Revolution
By admin | July 28, 2011
Discovering the music revolution and why midi's part in it has become mainstream for the industry and essential for many composers and musicians.
Midi Sequencer
The first thing to understand about midi sequencers is that they make no sound of their own. True, some later hardware units come with onboard sounds that the sequencer will use, but when midi sequencers originally came to market they were a stand alone application (both hardware and software units) and it was necessary to plug the midi output of the unit into the midi in of the desired sound module (there were dozens of them; DX7 (keyboard), TX7 (module) various Roland units (Sound Canvas, MT 32), Korg, and many others.
The sequencer's role is to capture, accurately, the digital midi events produced by a midi keyboard or other type of midi controller such as a guitar to midi converter or Yamaha's EWI – a midi wind instrument. The instrument sends out data in 7 bit packets (7 bits allows counting to 128) and tells the receiving unit what type of data is coming, note on, the note number to play, the midi channel it's on, the velocity of the note and, note off.
Over the past years its become more common for designers to use note duration (instead of using key on/key off protocol) as this helps prevent "stuck notes", an unfortunate experience, especially in a live environment, where the sound module hasn't received the "note off" and continues to play one or more sounds.
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There are many midi sequencers available from low cost to expensive. I began with Steinberg's Pro24 many years ago using Atari computers and continued throughout Cubase's era until Cubase SX2. I had no end of problems with Cubase when I moved to the PC platform and so began a search for something that would work for me. In the end I came across SAWStudio and the Midi Workshop and, after testing these for a few months, discovered that this combination was rock solid as far as locking audio to midi and vice versa.
I ended up going with SAWStudio + MWS combo and continue to be impressed by how well this setup works – also at this point I must make mention of SAWStudio's excellent sound quality, something missing from my previous experiences. With an install size of just 1.4 meg – a full working environment can be put onto a USB memory stick. SAWStudio's use of computer resources is so low that I have successfully used a Celeron 400 equipped desktop computer to run a full-on theatre restaurant show with music and sound effects, plus running the light show with 3 light controllers chasing midi commands from the Midi WorkShop.
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So – back to the story of the midi-music revolution. First we'll take the example of a 4 piece band. If the musicians are hot players and work well together, it's best to record them direct to tape or disk. What if they're not so great live but have many excellent ideas? Should they sink back into the darkness just because they, so far, haven't developed their playing skills to a high degree? I don't think so – and if it were the case, there would be a hell of a lot of music that would never have come to our attention.
Let's say the 4 piece band play well, but the drummer's kit sounds like a collection of rubbish tins. We could have the band play live and "replace" the drum sounds later (probably keeping the cymbals), or we could program a drum track with some great sounds and have the band follow the track.
Maybe we find we need to add some brass later. No problem – play it live to disk or tape; or add another midi track and play the notes into the track. Playing the notes into a midi track allows for much flexibility later at the mixing stage as notes can easily be shifted anywhere you desire, and sounds can be altered, to suit blending into the mix, or to be wildly different.
Looking at another area – scoring music for film or TV – we see midi has all but replaced traditional orchestral recording. Certainly nothing compares with a well recorded live orchestra but, as costs skyrocket, only big budget movies are able to afford such productions leaving most of the production work these days to composers utilizing very large midi systems. These composers will have thousands of top quality samples to draw from and may even augment their midi composition with live strings or various other live instruments – but the basis of their composition will be midi instruments.
Another area is the lone musician. This scenario is where one person is composing and producing songs whereby he/she might compose the whole backing using midi instruments and then, perhaps, record themselves singing and/or playing guitar along with the backing.
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Music of the 70s
By admin | July 10, 2011
We all associate songs and music with events in our life. Many songs hold special memories for us. We fondly remember the songs that were playing when we went to our first dance, the songs the school band attempted to play during half time at the high school football games, the songs that we heard on our first date, or the songs we heard on the radio while driving our first car.
The music of the 1970's is probably the most impressive and most recognized of any era. The artists of the 1970's provided us with numerous songs we loved to dance to and sing along with. At that time most bands actually played their own instruments and didn't need to sequence part of it.
Remember how we used to listen to the music then? At first we had eight track players in our cars, then we moved upward to cassette players. Vinyl records were the most popular way to listen to our favorite music. Every week you could go to your local variety or record store and pick up the new #1 song on a 45 record for under $1.00. Of course, there was always the radio to listen to – most of the popular channels were on am radio. We had many styles of music to listen to, including the bubble gum music of David Cassidy and the Partridge Family, soft rock of Barry Manilow, the great dance tunes of the Bee Gees and the Commodores, rock of Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, the brass band sounds of Chicago, or the disco beat of Chic and Donna Summers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rhythm & Blues: New Mainstream Popularity | R&B
By admin | June 27, 2011
Rythm & Blues is obviously ruling the musical scene again, after it had experienced several peaks of its popularity in the past, however, unfortunately, not everyone is aware of this.
R&B was initially used to identify upbeat popular music, performed by African-American artists, which later on developed into rock and roll and posed as predecessor of rockabilly style. It comprises elements of jazz, gospel music and blues as well as hip-hop and beat since 1986. It claims to replace the term race music, which was deemed offensive. It's considered to be introduced by Jerry Wexler in 1846 in the United States. Hard bop appears to be product of the influence of R&B.
1950s are considered as the genuine classical epoch of the R&B trend. Its regional subgenres Louisiana and New Orleans, comprising mixes of R&B, jazz and rock-n-roll, achieved great mainstream success in early 1960s with artists like the Rolling Stones and the Manfred Mann in entire Europe. It was, however, replaced in middle 1960s by soul.
In 1980s R&B re-established its popularity, ruling the musical world alongside disco and even long further after disco's demise. It's not until 1980s that the acronym R&B was introduced and used to denote the Rhythm & Blues term. Notably, it has caught on, containing elements of soul and pop music. Original arrangements and strong vocal, however, bared it from turning into a regular pop culture's product.
Irrespective a large number of its subgenres, Presently, R&B continues to be popular worldwide with artists like Black Eyed Peas, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Ciara, Omarion and Bow Wow, leading world music charts. Tracing the periodical ups, one can notice its numerous rises with the break of 25 to 30 years. Thus, R&B's another golden age in 2030 shouldn't even be brought into question. Hopefully, this period will bring us some new music twinkling stars.
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