September 12, 2006
September 11, 2006
More free tunes
Don’t forget: today is Monday, which means there’s another free 25-song sampler on iTunes.
August 17, 2006
Lots and lots of music
Today, I decided to add to my music collection. Drastically. I looked around and found quite a few sites that offer free, legal downloads of unrestricted music, mostly from indie labels. Some of the sites are traditional labels, some are net labels, some are blogs and some are fansites.
I got a ton of leads from E.C. Brown’s link archive. It’s about as comprehensive as you can get. Here are some of the sites I found with the largest number of free MP3s:
- 3Hive: Indie blog, lots of genres.
- Oddio Overplay: Several themed compilations.
- Comfort Stand Records: Lots of electronica and samplecore.
- Big Neck Records: Tons of rock.
- I Wanna Be Your Dog: A few dozen covers of Iggy Pop’s “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”
- The Crutch: Big indie-rock archive.
- You Ain’t No Picasso: A very-frequently updated review blog.
Here’s the cool part. I discovered a feature in Download Accelerator Plus that lets you mass-queue downloads. The download manager is integrated with Firefox, so when you come across a page with a bunch of links (a discography, for example), you right-click anywhere on the page and select “Download all with DAP.”
This brings up a dialog box listing every link in that HTML document. The list is sortable by type. So you sort, pick all the MP3s, and add them to the download queue. DAP uses a proximity test to pick the fastest server, and away it goes. When I started this post, I had 1,617 files in the queue. The vast majority are single songs, though there are quite a few albums and compilations in there.
Now the queue stands at 1,811. I figure there are probably about 2,000-2,100 songs in there. Add that to the 270 I downloaded today and the 3,100 already in my iTunes library, and that’s a pretty good-sized catalog.
August 10, 2006
Free music on iTunes
I ran across this on Facebook today — a group with the name “Apple Students.” Here’s the message I got:
Congratulations! To redeem, please follow these instructions:
DOWNLOAD CODE: NL3KJLE4YFH3
Code Expiration: September 7th, 20061. Copy the Download Code
2. Open your iTunes* Music Player
3. Click ‘Music Store’ in the iTunes menu bar
4. Click ‘Redeem’ in the ‘Account’ box on the left navigation bar
5. Paste the Download Code and click ‘Submit’Your download will start immediately. Enjoy and spread the word!
Visit the Apple Students group next week to get the latest Sampler.
25 songs, gratis. Every Monday through 9/30, they’ll put up another playlist with another 25 songs, free o’ charge.
Sweet.
June 28, 2006
Twelve stories high, made of radiation
This is the funniest thing I have seen this week:
Matt Bramanti | June 28, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Posted to Bizarre, Humor, National, Video, Music
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Posted to Bizarre, Humor, National, Video, Music
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June 6, 2006
Paint drippin’ like kitchen sinks
Got this one from the Chron’s Kyrie O’Connor, of MeMo notoriety. Yes, it’s a rap video. Yes, it’s inspired by Willy Wonka. No, I don’t know what it means either:
