Image: theretown.com/blink182 (screenshot)

At the 51st Grammy Awards in February, all three members of the band (Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker) appeared onstage together for the first time since December 2004. Barker announced the band’s reformation, saying that “we used to play music together, and we decided we’re going to play music together again,” with Hoppus chiming in “Blink-182 is back!”

The Blink-182 summer reunion tour began on July 23, 2009 in Las Vegas and continues through October 4, 2009, when the band will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The Blink-182 giveaway prizes include:

Four (4) First Prizes

• Signed copy of Blink-182’s Greatest Hits

Grand Prize

• Signed copy of Blink-182’s Greatest Hits
• $200 Ticketmaster gift card
• $100 iTunes gift card

To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment here and answer the question, “What’s your favorite Blink-182 song?”

The comment will automatically enter you into the contest. On Monday, August 31, 2009 at 11:59pm ET the giveaway will end and we will draw random winners to receive the prizes.

Prizes provided by State Farm, who are sponsoring Blink-182’s summer tour. For tour dates and a chance to win Travis Barker’s 1966 Cadillac Coupe de Ville as well as a trip to see the band play live, check out theretown.com/blink182.

(More photos after the jump.)

Image: Tom DeLonge (Newscom)

Image: Mark Hoppus (Newscom)

Image: Travis Barker (Newscom)

Post from: EveryJoe

Blink-182 Giveaway: CDs, Gift Cards & More

I sure wish that the images for CD covers on albums were stored as embedded information within each MP3 instead of as separate files in the directory. If you really want to start thinking of your MP3 collection like your old-school CD collection (can you believe I just used “old-school” and CD collection in the same sentence?) then you need to allow people to easily browse through their album covers and potentially even the inside liner information as images or text in a file. Embedding this in the MP3 file would be great so you wouldn’t have multiple files to worry about for each album.

The obvious problem with this is that you’d have duplicate information as the album cover image and liner information would be stored in each separate MP3 track’s file. Potentially ballooning the storage space needed unnecessarily. However, with storage getting as cheap as it is I can’t imagine it becoming that big of a deal.

Most of these image files hover around the 3KB mark. So even on a 10 track album you’re looking at a minimal file size addition compared to the actual MP3 files themselves.

Post from: EveryJoe

Storage and Attachment of Album Cover Art