Four Legal Ways To Find Music For Any Video You Upload To YouTube

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

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Putting a video together commemorating one of these once-in-a-lifetime occasions is lots of fun and a tearjerker for everybody… until YouTube takes it down because you used music you weren’t supposed to even get near to begin with.

If you want to ensure that isn’t ever happening to you, below you have four legal ways to find music you could use as part of your montage.

1- Creative Commons Licenses

A creative commons license denotes works that the artists have decided to share with the public, while keeping certain rights to themselves.

There are lots of free creative commons audio tracks on the Web. Check these sites out: Jamendo, Danodongs and Incompetech. The first is a repository with more than a quarter million tracks, and the other two are examples of sites created by individual artists.

2- Stock Audio

Much like stock photo libraries, stock audio libraries let people license music for specific purposes. Check iStockphoto to learn about the legalities at play, and to see all the different types of licenses that are available. Continue reading →

RostbiF Releases A New EP – Listen To It Online For Free!

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

RostbiF (Mauricio Rode, Guido Quintela, Lukas Künzler and Pablo Gonzalez) with Andrés Gorlo.

My good friends from RostbiF have just issued a new EP. It is named “La Última Palabra” [The Last Word], and you can listen to its five songs for free here. You can also download the songs to your computer, bring them to any party you go and impress everybody with your knowledge of Uruguayan music. I don’t know if that will make you a big hit with the women at the party (let’s face, it probably won’t), but at least you will be singled out as the one with exotic tastes. That is always a good start…

This is the tracklist:

1- Derrumbe
2- Camino
3- Alice In Cocaineland
4- Paloma
5- Uniformes

This time around I wrote the lyrics to the song “Uniformes” [Uniforms] – I based it on a draft guitarist/vocalist Lukas Kunzer sent me. I have wanted to pen a song with that name ever since I listened to Ken Stringfellow’s song by the same name. And the Birdman has got a (terrific) song that is named like that, too. It is featured on the album “All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”. Continue reading →

Where Was The Cover Of “Who’s Next” Shot?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

A classic rock & roll image, the cover of The Who's undisputed masterpiece was chosen over a shot featuring Keith Moon on wig and corset (!).

A classic rock & roll image, the cover of The Who's epoch-defining album was chosen over a shot featuring Keith Moon on wig and corset (!).

The monolith depicted on the cover of Who’s Next is found on Sheffield. You might know that already, but what you might not know is that the monolith is surrounded by lots of similar constructions. Have a good look at this video, shot by a fan:

The photo was taken by Ethan A. Russell.

And I hate bringing rock & roll myths down, but the band members did not really urinate on the monolith. Rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to create the intended effect.

MegaBox – A Familiar Service Now Goes The Musical Way

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

Name: MegaBox
URL: http://www.megabox.com

Who hasn’t shared a file through MegaUpload at least once in his lifetime? The service is up there with RapidShare as one of the premier destinations for sending and receiving data. It is also a good platform for the streaming of clips, as any person who has ever tried MegaVideo can tell you. And now, it s also becoming a destination for those who want to listen to music on the WWW. MegaBox sees to that. It is a service that makes both for streaming music when you are online, and for buying it on the spot (a la iTunes).

What’s more, users of MegaBox are allowed to upload their entire music collections to the cloud, and listening to all their selections from wherever they are. So long for visiting YouTube in order to listen to that song which has somehow become nestled in your head overnight.

MegaBox has been released at the same time as MegaLive. That is a service for broadcasting what you are doing in real time using your webcam. By all reckonings, the Mega family is swelling ranks more than quickly… Will we see some illegitimate offspring along the way?

Arte Solidario En Maldonado Este Sábado 18 De Diciembre

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

Arte Solidario en Maldonado

El próximo sábado 18 de diciembre a las 21:00 tendrá lugar el evento
“Arte Solidario” en el Cine Teatro Cantegril de Maldonado. Habrá música
en vivo, poesía y pintura.
El objetivo es recaudar juguetes para los niños carenciados de Maldonado, los cuales serán repartidos por la ONG Rumbos esta navidad.

Las bandas que tocarán esa noche incluyen a Opus Rock, Conkistadores, Viejo Perro, Pitbull Rock y K-Lambre. También se presentarán Gabriel Arce y la murga Lapopular. Por su parte, Eduardo Fajardo tendrá su espacio de tattoo y pintura. La parte de poesía recaerá en Matías Ríos Nocetti, y yo tendré el placer de presentar “Once” y “Ten”.

Contamos con todos ustedes para llenar el teatro esa noche. La entrada es un juguete.

¡Los esperamos!

Turn Your iPad Into A Fully-featured DJ System

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

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If you are the kind who entertains DJ notions and you have been a good boy this year, then this is what you should ask Santa for.

Presented by Algoriddim, Djay is an application that will turn your iPad into a hefty DJ setup. Once installed and launched, the iPad will take after two turn tables and a mixer which has tons of options. For example, you can instruct the app to detect beats and tempos automatically, and also get down to some visual mixing using audio waveforms. And when you have had enough of mixing but the party is still going on strong, then you can just activate the Automix mode and let Djay do the honors while you hit the floor.

As it was only to be expected, any song that you have in your music library can be mixed using Djay.

Oh, and just in case Santa fails to deliver the goods, Djay retails at $ 20.

Michael Jackson’s New Album Has Been Leaked

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

Michael Jackson’s Posthumous Album Is Now Available For (Illegal) Download

A leak of Michael Jackson’s posthumous album has hit the Web like a cyclone. A simple search on most file-sharing and torrent sites will let you get our hands on the 10 tracks that make it up.

This might as well be the highest-profile leak of the year, well ahead of Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and the beginning of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”.

Sony and Epic Records have declined to make comments of any kind. I guess they are too busy grinding their axes… This has been one leak too many. The consequences this can have on file sharing could be radical.

Moon On The Water (AKA Full Moon Sway) From The Anime “Beck” (Video)

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

Koyuki On The Cover Of The First DVD Volume Of "Beck", As Issued By Funimation

Koyuki On The Cover Of The First Volume Of "Beck", As Issued By Funimation

I am about to finish watching “Beck”, a terrific anime that tells the story of a young band that fights for its place in the sun.

In episode 12, Koyuki (the show’s protagonist) is invited onstage by mega-successful band Dying Breed. He performs a sterling version of their own “Moon On The Water”, amazing both his bandmates (who are in the public) and stealing the heart of Maho, his love interest.

I am finishing watching the anime tomorrow. I can think of plenty more scenes to share with you already. All I can tell you now is that if you love music you have to give it a try.

And a live-action movie is to be released as I am writing this, too. Hopefully, that will make even more people become acquainted with this anime and the great manga (IE, Japanese comic) it has been based on.

Moon On The Water (AKA “Full Moon Sway”):

Guitaryst – Play Your Guitar With The Help Of Automatic Tabs

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Emilio Pérez Miguel

Name: Guitaryst
URL: http://www.guitaryst.com

Get ready for automated and intelligent tablatures, because that is what this shiny new website has to offer. Guitaryst allows anybody to play his guitar while the relevant tablature is automagically scrolled down the screen of his computer or tablet. This means that the performer (IE, you) won’t have to leave his guitar unattended in order to flip a page any longer.

Guitaryst works along with last.fm, like.fm and libre.fm. You are given the chance to choose the one service you want for the song to be streamed. As soon as the music begins, the tab will be displayed and automatically scrolled down to the timing of the song. Continue reading →

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