Beathound.com is a cool service that will send you recommendations on what music is missing from your collection. it analyses your itunes xml file and emails you recommendations based on the artists and albums that you have in your collection. if it finds new releases by artists that you already Read more…
This is a great way to fix all your itunes album art. its not reversible, so its not for the feint of heart. 1) open itunes 2) goto ‘albums’ 3) press cmd+A 4) right click > get info if it says ‘you are editing multiple items’ click ok 5) tick Read more…
Itunes match is excellent. it scans your library, and matches the songs it knows against apples massive database. once thats done you can then download high quality DRM free versions of the matched tracks you can also listen to your entire library on your iphone, ipad and appletv but if Read more…
Viewing iphoto photo album on apple tv : This will show you how to view an iphoto photo album on apple tv2. This also works with Yosemite and El-Capitan with the new ‘photos’ app. To view photos on the Apple TV, you need to have Home Sharing turned on in Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the Read more…
If your iphone is going slow then you might be able to speed it up significantly by deleting your photos and videos. the first thing to do is to make sure you have all the photos synced to your pc or mac. once you are sure they are all on Read more…
this will show you how to make Itunes smart playlists for podcasts and music so you can have every episode of certain podcasts, and the latest episodes of the others. Its also good for music – eg songs you have never played, songs you havent played in the last 6 Read more…
my wee cus won an award. its called the australian music award. I guess its on a par with the mercury award over here. w0ot! now all I need to do is to produce her next album ;)
I have setup a facebook page for hybrid machinima. im in the process of writing a new album. the link is on the left.
My wee cousin lisa mitchell is touring the uk to promote her new album (which just went gold in australia!!) she is doing a lot of gigs – just now she is touring with newton faulkner =) once she is done with that she is doing her own tour Here’s Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…
My new album is up on itunes – it is 33 tracks long and is a collection of the electronic music that I have made over the last two years released under the artist name ‘Artu’ – I was going to go for R2D2 but written out artuditu is a Read more…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…
Ive been busy mastering tracks. I just mastered 37 tracks (I actually mastered 51 of them, but a few got dropped already) I have bounced them all down to disk and now need to sort out the order of the tracks to make them flow better. I have my own Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
Nine inch nails have just removed themselves from their record label. its on nin.com. they are now offering another album for free, this time its in high def audio ( 24bit 96k wav files) and comes in at a whopping 1.2 gig ! what does that mean for everyone else Read more…
I got the confirmation email last week, and ive just checked the itunes store, and my new album is up !! the physical cd is available through cdbaby.com aswell =) so ive added a new slot to the sidebar and put in both of the cds with links to biy Read more…
W0ooot my second album is out now!!! cdbaby.com/cd/machinima2 This is the first full album release by the Scottish black metal band Hybrid Machinima, formed from their love of metal and rock in mid 2006. This is an altogether different experience from their debut ep which was released last year, showing Read more…
Ooooh, rancid are gonna (hopefully) release a new album i just ripped this from some site that I subscribe to, and ive just fired up rancid on my winamp Rancid is working on a new album that is expected to drop around the same time the punk-rockers dive into their Read more…