What’s the most popular song on the planet? The last time I think I heard the answer to this question it was "Happy Birthday to You". Makes sense when you think about it. What do you do though when you can’t think of the name of the song you just heard.

Now you can go to the Musipedia website and figure out what that song is that you just heard. Sure, if you had a new HD radio with iTunes tagging you could figure out what that song was, but you may not have an HD radio and may not want …read more

Nope, we’re not talking Star Wars here, but Boba and Jango Fett were some of the coolest characters. Jango is another option to listen to and create your own custom online radio station. Just what you need when you’re jamming out with some headphones and trying to get work done.

Pandora has always been getting the limelight and they provide a great service, but Jango is here to put a good fight and deliver some great music experience as well. Jango also has a bit more of a social network community appeal as well.
Just type in an artist – and your …read more

The pop music icon, Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California. Michael was preparing for a comeback world tour where his shows sold out within minutes of tickets being available. With 13 Grammy Awards and almost 1 billion records sold, regardless of your personal opinions, he was without a doubt the most successful music entertainer of all time.

You can read a variety of news articles and stories about him now or check out his extensive Wikipedia page as well.

When I first got on the Internet I loved collecting wav sounds. My favorites were clips from movies, theme songs or sound f/x. I would store hundreds of these things on stacks of 3.5" floppy disks. These days there’s no reason to really collect them yourself when you can find just about anything you want online whenever you want.

The PhoneZoo website provides just that source for you. With their website you’re looking for a new ringer and they have thousands to choose from in your search. The challenge is finding one that won’t truly embarrass you if your phone rings …read more

I don’t think anyone could argue that Wikipedia has become a pretty useful resource for finding information for just about everything. Sometimes you want to stick with a focused topic and get all the information you can about that subject. The first site that comes to mind in that regards is IMDB.com.

WikiMusicGuide.com is like IMDB.com for music. What I love about IMDB is that you can find just about anything you want to know about a movie or an actor quickly.
The WikiMusicGuide.com is attempting to fulfill that same purpose and be the place you go to get the name …read more

I’ve got loads of old books, audio cassettes and VHS tapes and other media stashed in closets and boxes throughout the house. I’m a bit of a pack rack, especially when it comes to something that I spent good money on when it was new, even if it’s not worth quite that much now.

The Old Switcheroo website provides a Web 2.0 spin on what we used to call a swap meet in the little country town where I grew up.
Old Switcheroo is like any healthy relationship: it’s give and take. You give others your stuff, so that at some …read more

What a great video of some of the music masters like Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino. If that’s not enough you’ve got the Rolling Stones’ Ron Woods, Carl Perkins and Rod Stewart all playing back-up. Oh, and everything is arranged by Paul Schaeffer who many of you probably only know from Late Night with David Letterman.

My boss recently setup the wall at the end and bottom of his stairway to showcase some of his old 33’s album collection. Thankfully, his choices are much better than the ones above.
A friend of mine sent me a link to look at the worst album covers ever. I’ll have to agree that some of these are absolutely tragic. Although not the worst, I highlighted just a couple above, if you’d like to see more appalling cover art, go vote for the worst, there are 46 other options for you to choose from.

I was just starting to get familiar with ODEO when I uncovered the fact that they’ve decided to re-launch and improve themselves again. I’ve been added to their private beta of their effort and from what I can already tell, I like the changes.
Thanks for participating in Odeo’s beta relaunch. You’ll notice we’ve changed a lot of things, including a complete re-design emphasizing search and discovery. We’ll be adding new features and updates, and will be listening to your feedback. Let us know what you like (and what we can do better) to make Odeo an enjoyable media experience.

I …read more

The last few times I’ve tried to update my iPod with iTunes I’ve gotten the following error.

Is it dead? I’ve done a few restores and resets and can’t get it to sync. Although on one hand I’d welcome the need to buy a new 160GB version. On the other hand, I don’t have the $400 to buy it with just laying around.
I’m really behind on my podcasts and kind of irritating since I just bought a new car radio where I can attach the iPod directly.
Anyone that might have an idea of how I can revive it, please let …read more