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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 19:44 |
XMPlay is a tiny music player from Un4seen Developments. Originally an XM mod player (hence the name), it has evolved to be a very fast, compact player supporting many formats and Winamp plugins (and yes, it supports CD Audio). This installer features a lot of input plugins (FLAC, Wavpack, etc.) and an ASIO output plugin (among others). Both the installer and the .zip file are under 2 MBs, so it's a lot of features for size.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 19:54 |
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Sounds
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Saturday, 24 December 2011 03:32 |
Here is the Sinepad scheme for Pidgin. This is the same as the Sinepad scheme which you can listen to here. Except with fewer sounds.
Sinepad for Pidgin for Windows, self-installing archive.
Files go to %Appdata%\.purple, which is standard Pidgin user directory. Meaning, it goes to [Your user profile directory]\Application Data\.purple. The installer handles this automatically. Like this:
End result.
And for Linux and other OS, here's the
Sinepad for Pidgin Zip archive.
Archive's contents go to home/.purple/themes - pretty much the same as under Windows. They say it also works extracted to /usr/share/.purple/themes, in which case the scheme's of course shared for all users.
Pidgin Theme Chooser
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Last Updated on Saturday, 24 December 2011 04:28 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Monday, 13 June 2011 16:44 |
Long story short, these are the ideal outdoors/commute headphones. Closed, with extra isolation, lightweight, comfortable. And with a sweet sound. Original Panasonic drivers were replaced with Sennheiser 38 mm. drivers, with a lot sweeter sound. Sensitive, so they can shout from a standard IPod. The extra isolation blocks off any public transport noise and allows listening at lower volume. These are the headphones you put on, turn the music on, and listen to nothing but music. Materials cost a bit over $100, so at $120 we're almost giving them away.
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 June 2011 17:31 |
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Articles/Reviews
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Saturday, 02 April 2011 05:57 |
The Pop-2 canalphones are entry-level canalphones from Hisoundaudio, a Chinese DAP/earphone maker.
Driver Type: Dynamic, 7 mm.
Nominal Impedance: 16 ohm.
Sensitivity: 106 dB/mW
Maximum SPL: 122 dB @ 1KHz @ 1 VRMS
Frequency Response: 17-23 KHz
Earphone Plug: 3.5 mm. miniplug
Cable Length: 1.2 m.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 April 2011 08:44 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:08 |
Resampling is a must for serious playback of music. Default CD/MP3 sampling rate of 44100 Hz is too slow; the minimum quantum is too long, so dynamics get sluggish. This may not be that noticeable to someone used to 44 KHz until switching to a high-quality resampling soundcard or DAC/external interface. Resample twice or better (88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 192 KHz...) and suddenly everything sounds smoother, livelier, more fluid, with a quickness that makes details come out that were previously unnoticed. Everything comes together as a whole. In short, resampling can make everything sound more natural, even though it won't return details that were damaged by rectification (in CDs, everything past ~5.5 KHz is damaged by lack of coordinates). So true high-res files will always have more spatial detail and a way more detailed treble and consequently much better presence and instrument separation/positioning than is possible for CDs. This is why vinyl lovers call CDs "flat", by the way - rectification damages the frequencies responsible for describing space.
Anyway, the lack of a MacOS port of Foobar2000 makes one wonder. Here's a list of players supporting resampling...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 March 2011 05:08 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Sunday, 13 March 2011 05:17 |
There's a big difference between the classic movies with Peter Sellers and the new (2006) movie with Steve Martin.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:46 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Tuesday, 01 March 2011 10:28 |
Equal loudness equaliser. Use this to set up headphones/player for a natural sound. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 12:29 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Tuesday, 01 March 2011 08:24 |
Akai has released not one, but four portable MIDI controllers.
Akai LPD-8
The LPD8 is a drum controller with 8 pads. 8 MIDI CC knobs, 8 note/programme change pads, 4 banks. Pads are backlit and velocity-sensitive. Works as a PnP USB-MIDI device under both MacOS and Windows - no driver required.
Price: $53+shipping worldwide off EBay. Get it here.
Akai LPK-25
The LPK25 is a laptop USB-MIDI keyboard, direct counterpart to Korg's Nanokey. But, it has some more interesting features. First, an arpeggiator. Yes, a little keyboard with a hardware arpeggiator. It also has a sustain and a "tempo tap" button, great for switching an arpeggiator's speed/project tempo quickly. The sustain button works for latching/looping an instrument on the same note. Also octave up/down buttons. 25 keys, 4 banks. PnP installation - no driver needed under MacOS/Windows. Laptop-sized - small enough to go in any laptop bag. No pitch up/down like the Nanokey, or modulation wheel, but then it looks like the manufacturers are too cheap to make tiny modwheels... Still, at roughly $60+shipping on EBay, this is a great tiny keyboard that can compete with the Nanokey. And, according to owners, the keys on LPK25 are much nicer-feeling than the cheap wonky keys on Nanokey. Something also tells that it's sturdier than Nanokey. It has tiny piano keys. You can get used to the keys on Nanokey, and plaster them to respond without wobbling, but here the Nanokey only lived a year or so. It was banged on by kids, and then some keys on the Nanokey stopped responding... In short! Get the LPK25 and there won't be trouble :-P
Price: $57+shipping worldwide off EBay. Get it from here.
Akai MPK Mini
The MPK Mini combines the LPK25 and LPD8 in one body. 25 keys, 8 drum pads with 2 banks, 8 controller knobs, arpeggiator, sustain, octave up/down, tap tempo buttons, setup recall button. 4 setup patches. USB-MIDI. Weight: ~1 kg.
Price: $99+shipping worldwide off EBay. Get it here.
Akai MPK25
The MPK25 is a full-featured miniature workstation keyboard. It has aftertouch (!), 25 keys, 12 drum pads (4 banks), a large-ish LCD display, and programmable RTC, MMC, MIDI stop/start controllers. 12 controller knobs, 4 controller buttons. Transport controls (play/stop, forward/back, etc.). Dynamics/tempo controls (including tempo tap). The drumpads have pressure and velocity sensitivity, so you could do drum rolls in addition to taps. And it's all so small, it fits on a lap. It's about the size of a laptop PC. The nicest bit is this:
Serial MIDI in/out connectors and sustain/expression pedal sockets.
The MPK25 sells for roughly $300+shipping online.
Price: $299+shipping worldwide off EBay. Get it here.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 March 2011 02:36 |
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 04:01 |
Hisoundaudio Live Earbuds
Type: dynamic, open.
Driver size: 16 mm.
Nominal impedance: 32 ohm.
Sensitivity: 105 dB/1 mW [?].
Maximum sound pressure level, at 1 KHz sine tone, 1 VRMS: 125 dB.
Frequency response: 16-22 KHz.
Plug size/type: 3.5 mm. stereo miniplug (compatible with IPhone, etc.).
Cable length/type: 117 cm., 6N OFC cable.
First off, these really are excellent earbuds. So anyone who likes earbuds ought to run and buy them. They're awesome, the pinnacle of earbud technology.
But... Let's start with the first problem. They're earbuds.
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Last Updated on Monday, 28 March 2011 08:27 |
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Music
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Monday, 31 January 2011 08:33 |
Amnesia.flac, 96/24 FLAC file.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 January 2011 08:51 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Monday, 31 January 2011 07:51 |
This is a sound scheme played with Zynaddsub-FX. The instrument is a sine wave pad with complex harmonics, five instances of it.
The sounds are great for Windows, IM apps (Pidgin, Adium, Miranda...) or even websites or apps.
Download
96 KHz, 32-bit wave files, .zip archive (40 MB), ready for Windows playback.
Individual 96/24 FLAC files (directory).
96/24 FLAC files in a RAR archive.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 February 2011 04:08 |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Friday, 28 January 2011 08:24 |
Just some text here. Nothing else. Nope, nothing much. Absolutely. At all.
And this is an image:
Another image:
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