shazam - music recognition app for android

Shazam is an app for android platform that identifies music you hear wherever you are. Just press a button and in a few moments Shazam displays song name and links to song info and videos. Neat!

How I organized my music library

This is how i organized my music library (mp3 files):

1. i deleted thousands of tracks and albums that don't inspire me/are not to my taste/make me feel bad/...
2. i renamed all files to the following format: %artist - %title.mp3
3. i moved all files to single folder named music
4. i used utils like mp3renamer, musicbrainz tagger, etc to fetch tags from the internet and tag all the files
5. now whenever i listen to music in amarok, i add tags to tracks i listen to. i use the comment tag to store my own tags (e.g. meditative, relaxing, flute, dreamy, ambient)

I really love the way my music is organized now. I can't wait for filesystem which will native tagging support (maybe future version of ubuntu?)

ReacTable (music controller)

Today I discovered a music controller with a unique user interface. It is called ReacTable and it looks like a round table with blue backlight on top of which you place various types of blocks, each of them representing different sonic modules (VCO, LFO, Sample player,...). The parameters are controlled by rotating the blocks and moving them on the table. As you put new block to the table, icons and links between blocks are displayed on the table under each block. Here are some links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDia3CFdfg http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactable