Strange coincidence in the recent press releases about DVD discs. For the first time, the industry group that manages the licenses for the DVD format (the DVD 6C Licensing Group or DVD 6C) decided to revoque the DVD patent agreement of Chinese manufacturer Chaoyue (Jiangsu) Digital [1]. They must have been doing really ugly things…
Category: Music
Universal Flash Storage (UFS): Great idea or 20th Flash format?
A few days ago, it has been released publicly that a new Flash memory card format is arriving. I can see the John “Consumer” Doe thrilled in anticipation of yet another new card format: UFS. I can imagine that it will solve all existing issues with dozens of previously existing -and incompatible- memory cards. This…
Live Rock n’Roll and die young
Rock stars do not have a quiet life. But they often have violent or surprising deaths. When you’re a star, you need to stay one even in the process of dying. The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars. But as if this was not completely obvious, there is an English scientist (he’s from Liverpool John…
Opera singing is for everybody
Two of my friends will be giving a concert in a few days. To give them strength and assurance, here is an example of exceptionnal brilliance, a voice totally out of the ordinary and really not common. MP3 recording of Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins really existed and sincerily thought that her voice was…
News from the P2P front line
It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…
Read a musical score like a pro orchestra
Major works of classical music are written on musical scores that can be superb (not only musically, but also graphically). Unfortunately, it is often impossible -for those who had not the proper education- to keep reading a score while music plays.
Audacity: The musical utility
For the music lovers, the sound amateurs, the podcasters, Audacity is a tool out of the usual: despite its cheap price (it’s free) it has near professional features.
All the Warner catalog for free
And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…