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4
Feb
2012
Albumart Replacer
The Albumart Replacer is a little script I wrote to automatically find higher-resolution copies of album covers. For listening to music, I use foobar2000 and although the wonderful foo_discogs automatically adds album art to my music, sometimes the artwork on discogs.com isn’t the best.
Enter Albumart Replacer. If I’m listening to music and I notice the album art isn’t up to scratch, e.g.:
I simply run the script, it sends the image’s data to tineye.com, and if any higher-resolution copies of the same image are found, it’ll grab the best quality one:
This is all done without any user interaction. Using foo_run, it’s easy to set up a keybinding in foobar2000 so that it just takes one key press (simply pass the script a song’s %PATH% variable from foobar and it’ll do the rest.)
Source code, downloads and further details are available at the bitbucket repository.
Enjoy!
29
Jan
2012
Is this the worst piece of music ever made?
I’m fairly certain it is. I’ve nothing further to say about it.
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The Sea of Providence by Richard Youngs
If Richard or Root Strata take exception to me hosting this music here, they need just contact me and it’ll be taken down.
24
Nov
2011
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Live
From their Facebook page:
for those of you who could not make to one of our US shows…our videographer friend Joshua Smelser filmed the entire Los Angles show. Enjoy!
You can watch the entire concert in high-definition below.
EDIT: Although the sound quality is pretty dreadful…
23
Nov
2011
Slow Walkers
“Wake” from “Slow Walkers”, a Grouper / Lawrence English collaboration, to be released in 2012. The video is something else — “meditations for the zombie as cultural phenomena”.
Thanks to Dennis for bringing this to my attention. He also makes great ambient music himself — if you like this kind of thing, you should check his music out.
7
Nov
2011
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Aphex Remix)
Very unsettling.
From its vimeo page:
see original version, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki himself, performed just before this performance, here = youtube.com/watch?v=SFoTqF-gGxA&feature=related
see the other Aphex Twin edits for this show here = vimeo.com/album/1735255
see all other performances from the show here
youtube.com/user/fixedmachine#grid/user/CFB3F7A0029A764CLive visuals by Weirdcore.
gfx programming by weirdcore & andrew benson
2
Nov
2011
27
Oct
2011
My man Diamond D is like a hired gun
I’ve been looking for this track for about 11 years now, ever since I heard it on DJ MK‘s Volume 12 mixtape. This week I finally found it.
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Diamond D & Sadat X – Feel It (Album Version)
It’s mid-90s hiphop, what’s more to be said?
8
Oct
2011
The Alarmist
Easily the best Irish band at the moment – here’s a video of them performing “Clapper”.
7
Oct
2011
A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Performing the opening track from their self-titled album in their first live radio session:
13
Dec
2010
You could lose your mind in here; your money too
Been listening to this an awful lot in the past few days. A little gem that this new last.fm recommendation service brought up. Enjoy!
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(Ned Collette – The Country With A Smile)
