MORE 'MUSIC' POSTS
UPDATE: “Desert Island Discs on mobile: A 70 year radio archive in your pocket (Radio 4 & Radio 4 Extra Blog) Direct to the Desert Island Disc Online Archive At the beginning of March we posted an item about the complete archive of the BBC radio program “Desert Island Discs” (first broadcast was in 1942) […]
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress has launched a Music Consortium Treasures website that gives online access to some of the world’s most valued music manuscript and print materials from six esteemed institutions at www.loc.gov/musictreasures/. The aim of the site is to further music scholarship and research by providing access in one place […]
From a News Release: The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter music apps across the web and various devices, announced on Tuesday that it has provided music analysis and metadata to the Million Song Dataset, a collaboration between The Echo Nest and Columbia University’s LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech […]
From Techland (Time.com): Launched last week, the Montreal-based startup site Viinyl propounds the novel theory that the problem with online music is that the pictures aren’t big enough. Each song registered with the site gets a single-serving URL of its own–Ali Milner’s “I Dare You,” for instance, is http://idareyou.viinyl.com/ , and Armistice’s “Mission Bells” is […]
From The Guardian: Hundreds of episodes of Desert Island Discs are to be made available online, settling a long-running broadcasting dispute almost 70 years after the show first aired. [The archive will go live in April.] The BBC archive, spanning the last 10 years of famous castaways – 500 Desert Island Discs episodes – will […]