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Lately, I have had a little more free time and some musical ideas so I have gone back in the studio to work on some of them. I can’t promise that I will have anything up in the very near future, but I do have some (hopefully) good ideas and have started recording again.
Last.fm has changed their API; for those who are not programmers, an API (application programming interface) is a set of routines that allow a program to make requests to another program or web service. In and of itself, changing an API is not a bad thing and, in many cases, can be quite beneficial. For instance, adding new features to an API can allow programmers more options for interracting with the product.
A few weeks ago I suggested subscribing to Last.fm’s podcast of recommended free music. If you use iTunes, you can get even benefit from this service by downloading two no cost programs: Mp3tag and MixMeister BPM Analyzer.
In the past, I wrote about my thoughts on the online service Last.fm; I’m not sure how, but I seemed to have missed one of the best features of this service. Last.fm gives away free MP3s. Continue reading ‘Last.fm’s Recommended MP3s’ »
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across imeem which, like Last.fm, provides music and videos for online perusal. There seems to be more music on imeem than on Last.fm, but Last.fm provides useful services which I went over in a previous post.