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What is the Name of That Song?

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:39:27 +0000

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How often have you heard a new song and liked it, only to not find out the name of it at the end? It can drive you crazy trying to Google pieces of the lyrics, attempting to figure out who sings it, and what it’s called. You can’t buy the song for yourself if you don’t know the name of it. That’s where Midomi comes in. With Midomi, you can use your own voice to hum or sing lyrics to any song, and the service will find it for you. Once you’ve found it, you can watch the video for that particular piece of music, or even record a version of your own to share with the world.

Create a profile on Midomi, and sing your favorite songs. Upload them and create a playlist of searchable songs for others to enjoy. The next time anyone searches for that song, your performance might be the top result! You can listen to and rate others’ musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music, and more.

There are more than two million legal tracks on Midomi. You can listen to samples of original recordings, buy the full studio versions directly from Midomi, and play them on your computer.

Thanks to James for sending in this screencast, so that everyone can have fun on this awesome site. Let me know what other websites you cannot get through the day without!

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GarageBand Tutorial

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:09:04 +0000

GarageBand Tutorial

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Today’s screencast is one that is both informative and fun. Alex is a GarageBand expert, and wanted to show all of you his tips and tricks. When I’ve used GarageBand in the past, I simply clicked on a lot of things and attempted to actually make something that resembled music. However, there are actually specific things that you can do. Who would have ever guessed?!

Once you open GarageBand, you’ll want to choose “Loops”. That lets you use all of the tracks included with the application, as well as adding in your own instruments. Name your recording whatever you choose. At the bottom, you’ll see options for changing the key, tempo and beats per minute. However, it’s usually better to change it from within your project.

Choose a category to the right of your project window. You’ll see a listing of all the tracks, and you should choose whatever one you like the most. You should play around by putting a few different tracks together, to see what works well together.

GarageBand allows you to change the length of each track in your project, as well as letting you fade tracks in and out. Alex gives excellent instructions for managing this, and plays his end result for you. It’s not difficult to do. I would have never figured it was this easy!

You can also record your own voice (or musical instrument!) and add it to your track. Use your built-in mic or external microphone. Create a new track, and choose “Software Instrument”. Once you’re all set, you can start playing your tune… and then save it. Play around with the different instruments that come included with GarageBand, and even add your own singing in there if you dare!

Once you are finished with your song, click on “Share”. You can now send your creation to different applications, such as to a CD burner or iTunes. Don’t compress the song file, or you will lose quite a lot of quality.

Thanks a lot Alex for teaching this old dog some new tricks!

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The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:45:22 +0000

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

I admit it – I love Christmas music. I like the old, traditional stuff. I like some of the funny stuff. I even like some of the new-fangled stuff! Earlier this evening, I was listening to some Christmas tunes while working in my office, and the Twelve Days of Christmas song came on. As I hummed along with this cute little song, I remembered that there’s a “redneck” version, as well. That got me thinking… where’s the Geek version?! Surely there are more than enough gadgets lying around to help inspire us, right? We demand equal representation! If Jeff Foxworthy can sing about redneck gifts, why can’t we sing about Geeky ones?

Here’s my challenge to you – come up with a whole new version of the standard Twelve Days of Christmas. The catch is, of course, that it has to be Geek style! Only Geeky gifts, gadgets and gizmos are allowed for each of the days. Make sure the song makes sense, and rhymes at least somewhat. If you want me to sing it on stream some day, you need to make sure it sounds at least kind of coherent. If I receive one that is truly awesome, you never know where you might see or hear your creation!

Get to writing, and email me your lyrics!

There are a lot of cool games and software titles available for excellent prices in our downloads center today – just in time for holiday gift-giving!

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The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

How to Remove Vocals from Songs Using Audacity

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:12:30 +0000

How to Remove Vocals from Songs Using Audacity

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This is the next in our series of screencasts recorded by people in our community! You can always submit your own, you know. I’m still looking for more good screencasters! Daniel has created this short tutorial for us, to show us how to easily remove the vocals from any song using the free Audacity software.

Open up your song in Audacity. In that top box, click the small drop-down arrow, and choose “Split Stereo Track”. Once it has split into two panes, go to the top of the Audacity window and click “Effect”, and then “Invert”.

Once it has finished, go back to that bottom pane, and click on the drop-down arrow there. Choose “Mono”. Select the top track and repeat the procedure, choosing “Mono” there, as well.

Once you have done this, you’ll notice that the vocals aren’t nearly as prominent. It doesn’t remove it completely, but it does lessen the strength of the voice so that you can easily sing over it, using the edited track for Karaoke purposes.

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How to Sing Karaoke Online for Free

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:10:33 +0000

How to Sing Karaoke Online for Free

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Who doesn’t like to sing? Even if you can’t “sing” really well, you still probably like to. I sing in the shower, in the car, and even on my live stream. Heck, people have recorded me singing in the past, and uploaded it all over YouTube. Oh, the joys of live streaming!

If you enjoy belting out songs, you will probably become addicted to the new online Karaoke site! Karaoke Party is a free service where you can practice from your own home, and “compete” against others. Sing karaoke online in your web browser. Practice your singing and increase your score. Challenge your friends in becoming the next karaoke champion. All you need is a microphone and a web browser that connects to the ‘Net!

Just a few minutes before recording this video, I recorded my own Karaoke version of the song “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz. I know nothing about music, and I can’t really sing. I’m sure you’ll cringe when you hear it, but that’s ok. I just love to sing along though!

You don’t need a Karaoke machine, nor any other fancy equipment. All you need is yourself, an Internet connection, and your microphone. Send everyone outside so they can’t hear you, and cut loose. Show the next American Idol that is inside of you!

If you want to share what you’ve done, make sure you leave us a link!

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Where do You go to Find Music Online?

Chris Pirillo — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:18:45 +0000

Where do You go to Find Music Online?

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Sometimes you may have a song running through your head. You may know the artist and title of the song, but you cannot find it online. You want to hear the song, yes. But you don’t want to have to surf for the right video on YouTube, and you don’t want to download something in order to be able to listen. So what now? When you just want to hear a song, try using JustHear!t.

JustHear!t is becoming the place for music online. It is the most innovative on-demand music discovery service. You can listen instantly to any song you want without signing up (or paying for!) anything.

Simply go to the website, and type in the song you want to hear. Hit your enter key – and there you go. Listen to your song. Yeah – it really is that easy. Sort by song or by artist… or even metadata.

It even finds really obscure stuff. There’s so much more out there that you don’t realize is there, because you’re using the wrong search tool. You can use YouTube, but you’ll only get results from YouTube. You can use Google, but then you will get thousands of things you did not mean to look for, and we know how much of a pain that can be at times.

So if all you want to do is actually listen to music, then try out JustHear!t today.

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Would You Like to Make Money with Music?

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:11:34 +0000

Would You Like to Make Money with Music?

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How would you like to find an unknown band or musical artist, support them, help them get a recording contract, and then receive a portion of the proceeds from their sales? Is that something you’re interested in? On SellaBand, artists can upload their music, and find supporters.

For the first time fans and Artists can be in business together. Therefore each Artist issues 5,000 so called Parts. Parts cost $10 (plus transaction costs) each. Together Believers have to raise $50,000 to get their Artist of choice in the studio. At any point before your Artist has reached the Goal of $50,000, you can withdraw your Parts and pick a different Artist. You can even get your money back (minus a small transaction fee). It’s your music. It’s your choice.

Once your Artist has raised $50,000 SellaBand will assign an experienced A&R-person to this project. Together with a top Producer, your Artist will record a CD in a state-of-the-art Studio. During the process you will get an exclusive sneak preview of this exciting process.

All advertising revenues generated via SellaBand will be shared equally between the SellaBand Recording Artists, their Believers and SellaBand. The amount of money you and the Artist will get paid depends on the market share the artist has in the total number of downloads on SellaBand.
Three of the songs on the CD will be given away as free Downloads. The other tracks will be sold as paid Downloads for 50 dollarcents each. The net profit of these sales will be split evenly between you, your Artist and SellaBand.

That is very cool. Discover new artists and music, help launch their careers, and make money in the process. It doesn’t get much better than that.

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How Do You Discover New Music?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:47:40 +0000

How Do You Discover New Music?

I love listening to a wide variety of music. When I’m working, I will often have music playing, which can be heard over my stream. People send me emails all the time with recommendations of different music, songs and artists I should check out. I always take the time to do so, since you never know what I might find that I enjoy and would have never heard of otherwise. I tend to discover my music this way. I had to ask my friends how they discover their new tunes.

I’ve had this dilemma until recently. I don’t use radio anymore, and I haven’t had cable in years so no MTV or VH1. I’ve recently discovered Pandora, quite happy with it. – Kevin Etter

On the radio ? – Charlie Anzman

Hype Machine is good although its hard to keep track of everything on there its updated constantly. – Sean Davis

I use Pandora constantly. – Morgan

last.fm, browsing iTunes & eMusic. Metafilter and various blogs also introduced me to a few bands – Mike Cohen

Definitely Last.FM ! – Éric Senterre

Pandora is definitely the way I find new music. I haven’t tried Last.FM in a while, I may need to rediscover it. – JT Perry

last.fm – nicerobot

Pandora and here. – Yolanda

I recommend Binaerpilot. – Vezquex

I have some friends whose raison d’être is finding new music, and they toss it to me. – Kirk Kittell

I don’t listen to radio at all. I don’t watch videos. Primary source of music is Last.fm and I find new/different stuff via FriendFeed. If I can’t find anything I like…I create it. – Rahsheen Porter

Cool friends – Noah Carter

Any and every way I can. I especially like getting recommendations from people I trust. Then, if I really dig the music, I will always have that connection to reflect on. – Josh Haley

last.fm, eMusic, and Jamendo. – Steven Perez

Madison, Wisconsin enjoys the benefits of a fine community station and a killer student station (i.e., WORT, WSUM). Always way ahead of the curve. Plus the internets are a bonus. – Dave Martin

Last.fm, Pandora, a few choice blogs and–every now and then–the radio. – Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

Pandora, BBC 1 (it’s new to Americans) and a few di.fm programs. – Andrew Leyden

I don’t listen to radio or watch TV since I moved to the UK, so my primary sources now are Last.fm, eMusic, FriendFeed and Rolling Stone. I’d say I’m purchasing about as much music as I used to though – mostly CDs when Amazon or HMV has a sale. DRM sucks. – Jon Price

Pandora, Last.fm, podcasts, & sometimes radio. Friends too :) – zoblue

primarily – last.fm and amazon.com recommendations. secondarily – friend recommendations. I have the benefit of having friends with impeccable taste in music. – Jason Toney

last.fm, hypem.com and podcasts oh and of course friends. – Got80s via twhirl

Corie Allison – Bren

Friends, last.fm, radio, newspapers, movies, tv shows, magazines, concerts, nightclubs, festivals, and FF. – Pete Delucchi

Oh, music blogs and podcasts, too. flux, gramophone, soul sides, rock insider, and the fader are go to blogs. KCRW top tune, kexp song of the day, and indiefeed are my go to music podcasts. But, damn, now y’all know all my secrets. How will I maintain my rockist/soulist cred? – Jason Toney

All I use is last.fm, because somehow it amanages to find new related artists each week despite my massive music collection – Bartek Gniado

I tend to rummage with radio, and internet cause I don’t get music suggestions. – Shawn

Last.fm – Roger Benningfield

I’m a bit of a new-music freak and take a lot of time out to find new music. I don’t ell se last.fm but I am hooked up on the site. While Pandora was available in the UK that was by far the best way I found new music. Since then I browse my iLike Activity page weekly, as well as check my iTunes weekly mail of new tunes from my favourite bands. I also check BBC Radio 1′s and xfm’s playlists and isten to the hottest tracks from sixtyone.com. Lastly I check the music page on MySpace nd anything the London Timeout lists in its weekly magazine. For my type of music I listen to Zane Loe on Radio 1 A LOT! Huw Stephens and the In New Music We Trust programmes are very good too. I’m a member of Blip.fm and several others but they don’t seem to give me good results. – Kol Tregaskes

Oh and once I do find a new band I hck them out on Amazon and AllMusic and seek out the similar artists/Albums they list. ALso, Radio 1 has lots of podcasts to listen to. – Kol Tregaskes

If the last.fm feeds on FF all hd lay buttons then I would check them out more too. – Kol Tregaskes

I don’t, really. Most of my new music is soundtracks. I just don’t listen to music. – Brent Newhall

a href=”http://www.freeformrock.com” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.freeformrock.com (traditional FM freeform, including contemporary Americana, from one of the legendary freeform DJ’s) and Pandora for stuff that’s new to my hearing, but I somehow missed over the years ( http://pandora.com/share/stati… ). – Malcolm Gault-Williams

Through friends and Amazon.com. Occasionally through the BBC’s 1Xtra and the NY Times Arts section. My friends are musical omnivores and voracious consumers. They’ve introduced me to most of the new music I’ve purchased in the last year. – tiffany

i am in the black/electro scene – new music i find via last.fm, listening to my friends’ music and – like last weekend – by visiting festivals :) – Carsten

How do you find new music to listen to? Do you just turn on a radio and listen? Do you take recommendations from others? Or do you just happen across new stuff occasionally online?

How Do You Discover New Music?

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:29:16 +0000

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Recently, one of the regular members in our community wrote a song about me. How cool is that? I asked my friends if anyone has ever written a song about them.

Actually yes. – Vincent X

Could’ve sworn Carly Simon did but she denies it. – Akiva Moskovitz

That song was pretty good! Talented guy. – Vincent X

George Kelly wrote one for me on my birthday! If the iPhone had cut and paste, I’d be able to easily link it here for you. – Schlomo Rabinowitz

yes, to the tune of an REM song naturally – Ethan Kaplan

Sure: The Theme from Shaft. I’m very proud of it. – Chris Baskind

Oh lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way! Yup – Tad Donaghe

does i hate you die in a sing song way count??? if so, yes! – Mona N

Uhm…not written, but improvised in a moment of passion…LOL – Rahsheen Porter

I’m Henry, your bartending friend; No songs, but there was this girl in AP English who wrote a love poem to me and read it out loud to the class. – RAPatton

Yes but no one ever heard it and, it was silly. Just an ex-boyfriend messing with his guitar and making up different ways to sing my name and add rhymes to it. – Candace Holly

Does it count if I have written songs about myself? – Bren

yes. This one was (supposedly) about me: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg… – nathan

Yes… my hubby wrote me a few when we were dating. heh – Daynah

I’ve had a movie made inspired by me. Does that count? It was a short, and actually got produced with real actors and a director and stuff. An ex-girlfriend wrote and starred in it — after we broke up — so I’m not telling you how to find it. – Dan Kaplan

Daynah…are you only here becuase Twitter was down? hahahaha (btw, that song thing? SO super sweet!) @Dan, are you killed off? HA – Mona N

My boyfriend did…which is probably why he’s my husband now. – Evangeline

For $10 I will create a song for anyone and sing it on video – Allen Stern

Mona: She used her interpretation of the end of our relationship as the central metaphor. I wasn’t an actual character in the flesh. It was crazy – Dan Kaplan

Isaac Hayes wrote some song about me, but he changed the name so as not to tip anyone off about how cool I was. – Harvey Simmons

Allen Stern (allenstern): That’s really really cheap advertising! :) I wish I can pay you! Can we find a deal? ;-) – directeur via NoiseRiver

Found it! One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten, by the one and only George Kelly: http://www.vimeo.com/233431 – Schlomo Rabinowitz

directeur – sure just paypal the $10 and answer 20 questions about yourself and I will create a great song – just watch my twitter song for an example of my singing voice :-P – Allen Stern

+4 Akiva – Marco

Wait, we getting paid? If you would like a personalized song, please refer to http://last.fm/music/rahsheen for samples and price can be discussed at a later date…LOL – Rahsheen Porter

Yes. – Cecily Walker

oh, sure, Akiva. i bet you think this thread is about you. don’t you? – Trent Olson

yes. – edythe

Yup. My pop has. – Jason Toney

Gosh! So many people have songs written for them? Okay, Who do we pay over here to get a song written? – Parth Awasthi

Has anyone written a song about or for you? Why not leave a comment in this post, and let all of us see or hear it!?

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Where do You Find Song Lyrics Online?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:54:04 +0000

Where do You Find Song Lyrics Online?

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When you a hear a new song for the first time, you want to know all the words to it. How exactly do you find those words though? Many sites that offer music lyrics online are shady, and can infect your pc with Malware. How do you know who to trust? Where can you find lyrics to songs you’ve forgotten the words to?

LyricsFly has a very easy-to-use interface. It’s clean. It’s simple. Best of all… it’s popup and malware free. Yes, the site is powered by ads, but they aren’t overly annoying or intrusive. You can search by artist, song, album or partial lyrics.

Once you find the lyrics to a song, there are several options that you can then choose from. You can print or email them, or submit corrections if you find mistakes. You’ll also get a few links to suggested and similar artists! Whoever made this site, thank you! I’ve been looking for something like this. Bookmark this site, y’all. It’s an excellent and simple way to safely find the words to every song you ever needed to know the lyrics to.

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Has Anyone Ever Written a Song about You?

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:25:25 +0000

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song about You?

Matt Bickford wrote this fan song just for me! How cool is that? Watch the video, and follow along with the lyrics.

Review an app or two
He does it for you
He’s one geeky dude

Lifestreaming is his thing
taught me of metal grabby things
inspired me to sing

Now don’t get me wrong
for 10 dollars he’ll play you your song

Chris Pirillo

Ponzi went on a cruise
Home alone for the lose
he just did more reviews

Pixie and Wicket – so cute!
He bought Crash Bandicoot
Played it for me and Andrew

His geek cred – so legit!
He gave tech support to Jordi Laforge
Can you believe it?

Thanks, Matt! This rocked!

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song about You?

How to Develop a Sense of Rhythm

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:56:11 +0000

How to Develop a Sense of Rhythm

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Apparently, it’s quite obvious when I play with the KAOSSILATOR that I don’t have a sense of rhythm. Mbonzo is a long-time percussionist, and sent me these tips to help me out. Let’s see if they work.

Start practicing to songs that you listen to all of the time. Rock or hip hop songs are easiest in this exercise. Simply listen for an even cymbal hit or an even bass drum beat within the two genres. This will give you a good sense of where the rhthym is. Just tap your foot (doesn’t matter which one) to that beat. Make sure that your foot is tapping consistently and you are not tapping any heart beat like rhythms. As you tap your foot, try to start counting 1, 2, 3, 4. Most rock and hip hop songs are in what is called 4-4 time. If you are having problems finding the 1, 2, 3, 4 then try to find a song that has a more obvious rhythm.
Once you’ve found the four beats try to add your hands. Try playing the four notes twice as fast or twice as slow. In musical terms this covers the whole scheme of quarter notes, half notes, and eighth notes.
Rub your tummy and pat your head. Something that you may have tried to impress people with in grammar school is now significant! Just try to rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time. This will allow you to become detached from having the same rhythmic feel in both arms. Soon you maybe able to do all sorts of rhythms that once seemed awkward, such as doing the four even beats with your left hand and at the same time playing beats twice as fast with your right hand.
Dance to it. If you are comfortable dancing you may be able to pin point the beat easier. If you can find the beat with the other steps, then keep track of it and get off your butt all ready. Dance to the music!

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Top 5 Tips to Save the RIAA and the Music Industry

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:18:00 +0000

Top 5 Tips to Save the RIAA and the Music Industry

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With the advent of DRM, the music industry is increasingly losing serious amounts of profits. Piracy is at an all-time high, and there’s no end in sight. What can be done to help the music industry save themselves? Here are five things that they may just want to pay attention to, as sent in by a community member.

Put money into open source iTunes killer, like SongBird for instance. Record industries need an app that works on all platforms, so that everyone can enjoy and use them.
Invest in Bittorrent, and make it part of the iTunes killer. BitTorrent is the fastest platform, and most widely used. (Note from Chris, keep in mind that BitTorrent isn’t a platform, it’s a series of networks. But I get what you’re saying here)
Hire coders to make your music available to work on ALL platforms, programs and formats. Nothing is worse than not being able to listen to music you purchased on any media you want.
Allow any and all stores to sell music, don’t just lock it down like iTunes does. (note from Chris: It’s not really about HOW I get the music, then the fact that I just am able to GET it, period.)
Profit! (Note from Chris: I’m not really sure what he’s saying here. I mean sure, the record industry needs to make a profit, but in order to do that, they need to increase sales. THey can’t afford to do things to increase sales without profit. It’s a never-ending cycle.)

Lee sends us this comment:

Had to comment, as mindless and uninformed as it may be. The day any of these big musicians arrive for a concert in a Geo or flies coach or moves into my neighborhood because they can’t afford anything more that’s the day I think the music industry is in trouble. I don’t download music because I don’t have time and half the stuff coming out is really crap. But if there was something I did like I have no problem supporting an artist that can entertain me. Of course you can’t support the artist without supporting the music industry. If there is any issue with the music industry it is that it is spending too much money fighting a situation an not taking enough time to see how they could use that situation. Yes piracy is out there, yes it’s a problem because it does cut off SOME of the overwhelming profit that comes in but by making music available and only available to listen to on an ipod (for example) the music industry is not doing itself any favors. I did subscribe to a music service for a short while. When I found that I couldn’t listen to the music I bought on anything but windows media player well that was that. The points brought up in your newsletter were valid. The last thing is that there is nothing worse than buying an album because of one track and having remorse because that was the only track on the album worth listening to. When people have to wonder how they will pay for that next tank of gas it’s amazing to me that the music industry still exists. Hopefully that doesn’t sound to bad but remember it’s just one uninformed opinion. The real impact is on the small or undiscovered artist who may be plenty talented but the MUSIC INDUSTRY does not want to take a chance on. In the end obscene amounts of money are being made but human greed knows no bounds I guess because they want to turn it into ultra obscene amounts.

And this was sent in by Gary:

We are tired of paying inflated prices here in Canada. Yet the smart entertainers go on the road and yes we will pay good money for these shows. Ottawa Ontario where I live has more road shows than Toronto or Montreal.This is a civil service town yet they come out in droves to see these shows. They have trouble coughing up $100.00 to see the NHL Senators but will fork out for music entertainment.
In the good old days and you heard about that somewhere I’m sure, Dick Clark had the right formula. Record stars performed on his show and yes hit singles made it to the top of the charts. 45′s sold for a buck or two and the industry made money. Then they recycled the music into albums meanwhile still churning out new singles.We don’t have Dick nor Ed Sullivan and most of us don’t stay up for the late night shows. The music industry who own networks should start showcasing the talent instead of trying to take individuals to court for small downloads.Canada has stiff laws on piracy but not enough to stem the tide Ask any teen where he got his music for his IPod?
I prefer to buy a song not an album and if the industry could get their head around this they could get back to making money.Come up with ways to use the internet to your advantage. The world is changing. Why can’t those Music execs get their act together,
Gary Pocock
Ottawa Canada
P.S. You are my favorite geek. I’ve been receiving your newsletters almost since you first started having subscribers ..

What do you think can be done to save the music industry? Do you hate DRM as much as I do? Leave me a follow-up comment, or send an email to me at chris@pirillo.com

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12 Days of Christmas Song: A Music Geek Carol!

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:55:29 +0000

12 Days of Christmas Song: A Music Geek Carol!

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That’s right, the 12 Days of Christmas… Geek style! Thanks to the community members in the live.pirillo.com chat room who helped me come up with the lyrics.

Going backwards, here are the lyrics:

On the 12th Day of Christmas, my geek love gave to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

12 Cups of Coffee (Peet’s!!)
11 Fans a-Spinning
10 Million Viewers
9 Bloggers Blogging
8 Digg’ers Digg’ing
7 Hackers Hacking
6 Tix a-Ticking
5 LCDs
4 Remote Controls
3 Flash Drives
Dual Channel RAM
and a Cartridge in Atari

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Free Preview of New Weird Al Album

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:40:02 +0000

Free Preview of New Weird Al Album

Stumbled into this “gift” accidentally while assembling a total Yankovic playlist this afternoon. You can hear :30 teasers for each Straight Outta Lynwood track, so long as you have URGE and WMP11 installed (Windows only). No account necessary. MTV must’ve added his new album at some point in the past day. Do an Artist search for Yankovic (in URGE) and you should see SOL top the list. Select the album tracks as well as another track from another album (like Couch Potato from Poodle Hat), then right-click the non-SOL track and select “Play” from the context menu. This should tide you over until Tuesday morning – which is when you’ll buy the full album:

Featuring parodies of Chamillionaire, Green Day, Usher, R. Kelly and Taylor Hicks! DualDisc includes PCM Stereo, 5.1 Surround and instrumental mixes of the entire album (with on-screen lyrics option), plus a 9-minute behind-the-scenes documentary and 6 BRAND NEW MUSIC VIDEOS!

If you don’t buy the album, I’m going to rip your heart right out of your rib cage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it ’til you die – especially if you’re white and nerdy.

Free Preview of New Weird Al Album