Linux Mao published a short list contaning links to websites, which may be useful for checking, if your audio hardware is currently supported in Linux.

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Creative Commons Blog published an interview with partner of CASH Music – part music label, part creative community. Jesse Von Doom presents CASH’s goals, their business model, and plans for the future.

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It isn’t a good idea to publish podcast as they were recorded, without any mastering work. On the other hand, dealing with many files, and performing the same tasks many times can be frustrating. In this situation one should definitely use gnormalize.

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Internet radios provide all genres of music, some of the songs are available only thanks to these stations. Listening is nice, but very often I would like also to save certain songs on a hard disk. Of course, this is possible – the only issue is to choose the right application.

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StreamRecorder is a simple and easy to use Amarok Script that lets you record from streaming to your local hard drive. Once you install and run it from the Script Manager, it adds a right-click menu to start and stop recording as seen on screenshots.

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Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. The list of supported services is quite long. Pidgin can work with: (more…)

Craciun Dan wrote an interesting review of amaroK 2:

Since Amarok 2 is on its way with all the fuss around it and the currently stable 1.4.9.1 version will probably be the last in the 1.x series, I decided to make a review of the last stable Amarok. Debian Lenny will ship with this version (or any later version before Amarok 2), probably making it the most stable Amarok experience up to date. There is so much to say about Amarok that I could not possibly include in this review each and every feature it comes with, so I will try to only cover the highlights.

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If you plan to visit Liverpool in the coming weeks, don’t miss the Open Source City festival. This micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music will take place from 17 to 22 June 2008 (Mello Mello, The International Gallery and Tito’s, Liverpool).

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If you like to find new things to remix and different contests to which to submit remixes, you should visit Reeemix.com website. It posts information about current remix contests, together with some supplementary infos like: (more…)

The term “Twitter for Music” was used by Gizmodo. To be precise, Rifflet is a new website that pushes musicians to post their unfinished song for the rest of the Rifflet community to hear, build upon, and recontextualize.. A unique melody, bass line, guitar riff, drum beat… Everything can be posted, abnd used by other musicians.

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