Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Ecstasy Of Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7EeuWnc-8&feature=related

Hell yeah!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

youtube-mp3

I have written a Python script that converts Youtube videos to mp3's using youtube-dl, ffmpeg and id3v2.

Details are on the youtube-mp3 website here

Monday, March 02, 2009

GeceGece - Turk Indie Pop Grubu




http://www.myspace.com/gecegece

http://www.last.fm/music/gecegece

http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=gecegece

Sibel Emek Ortaç: lead vocals
Gökçe Bayrakçeken Tüzel: acoustic guitars , backing vocals
Alper Sarioglu: electric guitars
Özgür Sari: keyboards, backing vocals
Murat Tüzel: bass guitar
Onur Ertem: drums

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Convert Youtube Videos to mp3

1. Use youtube-dl to download the flv file. Add -b -o '%(stitle)s.%(ext)s' parameters to get maximum quality and proper naming.

To download a list of videos, use youtube-dl -a list.txt

2. Use ffmpeg to convert the file to an mp3 file.
ffmpeg -i 0-_h1gaZA48.flv -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 192k 0.mp3

To convert all at once,

for nam in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$nam" -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 192k `basename $nam .mp4`.mp3; done


3. Finally tag the mp3's using id3v2.
for name in *.mp3; do id3v2 $name -t `basename $name .mp3`; done

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

A Stockhausen Interview


I love how he answers the first question, and ends the conversation!

last.fm normalizer

This tool generates a normalization on your last.fm stats, based on the median track length of each artists. It therefore resorts the charts according to the time you spent listening, not merely according the number of tracks as last.fm does.

There is also another tool which uses this data so that you can embed in your last.fm profile -- but I can't remember the address now.

See also here for other last.fm mashups.

Music I Discovered This Week

A fruitful week for my music exploration:

1. Steve Reich
2. DJ Shadow
3. More of Aphex Twin ( The Tuss)
4. Squarepusher
5. The Orb
6. My Bloody Valentine
7. Public Enemy

Note to self:
More of Reich, more of minimalism, some Stockhausen in the following weeks.
Later: More trip-hop maybe, then PJ Harvey, Tori Amos etc.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Search for user generated playlists in Last.fm using Google

SNR of playlists is higher than tag based last.fm radios. So I decided to hunt for playlists containing artists I want to listen.

Searching for such playlists is pretty simple, just search for:

site:last.fm "play this playlist" "aphex twin"

on Google.

For example, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=pDc&q=site%3Alast.fm+%22play+this+playlist%22+%22aphex+twin%22&btnG=Search

Replace "aphex twin" with your choice of artist.

See also: http://www.last.fm/api/playlists

Using URIs on that page, one can listen to the playlists in the last.fm software. For example, if the ID of the playlist is 2564278, go to lastfm://playlist/2564278 . (The ID is retrieved from the location bar, which will have the following form: http://www.last.fm/listen/playlist/2564278/shuffle ) This is currently broken since it only allows 30-second previews on the client software, unlike the Flash player on the web site which allows full length song listening. As a remedy, try lastfm://user/ustunozgur/playlist. Replace ustunozgur with the name of the user.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Devrimler ve Degisim

Ateşe tapan bir kimseden satın alınan bir inek, yeni sahibine kendisini sağdırmazsa, yeni sahibi ateşe tapanların kılığına girebilir!

Monday, October 20, 2008

God is an Astronaut

See also: http://www.last.fm/music/God+Is+an+Astronaut/+tracks

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

o

uyuyormus tek konusmak istedigi.

laf!

uyanamasin hic,

sen birini gomdun ya bir anda.

"sanki yoksun gibi sanki yalanmışız gibi"

yasam agir, cok agir.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

give me my, give me my wings

"what have i done to be a son to an angel

what have i done to be worthy

daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence

difficult to see with this light

please forgive this selfish question, but

what am i to say to all these ghouls tonight"

"daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence.

difficult to see you in this light.

please forgive this bold suggestion:

should you see your maker's face tonight,

look him in the eye, look him in the eye, and tell him:

i never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.

hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home."

Monday, September 22, 2008

vekaleten yaşamak

"we all feed on tragedy, its like blood to a vampire.

vicariously i, live while the whole world dies.

much better you than i."

ride the spiral

"and following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. we'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been. spiral out. keep going."