The classic sound of a room full of arcade games all going at once started to vanish before the coin-op arcade started its slide to extinction. Game audio and speech got more sophisticated and music evolved into soundtracks, creating a blend different from the early to middle 1980s. But the Arcade Ambience ...

Is there a way to buy individual film score tracks without buying the album? I've been looking for some film scores to add to my collection but have been stymied. On iTunes, a number of soundtracks are classified as "album only," meaning one has to pay $9.99 for the entire CD; though I only want one ...

Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Grace Potter: 2008-08-16, Burlington (mp3,ogg,flac) "Paint It Black (Rolling Stones cover)" (mp3) Grace Potter: 2008-05-03, New Orleans (mp3,ogg,flac) "Sweet Hands" (mp3) other Grace Potter posts at Largehearted Boy Low: ...

How long has it been since I posted a piece of music? Well, that’s too long! Here’s something I sketched out in about an hour, From One Thing To Another. It has all the things I like to put into electronic music: repeating rhythmic figures of various lengths, clicky bakgrounds, chimes, lush pads. It’s ...

Why is MP3 playback sssuuudddeennllyy gggrriiinnddiinngg doowwnnnn? Until about six months ago, give or take, I could listen to MP3s on my computer pretty much regardless of whatever else I was doing. I did a pretty routine wipe everything/reinstall everything (XP Pro, upgrading from SP2 to ...

Ca pourrait bien être celui-ci. Sorte d’hommage aux jukebox d’antan, Le Xi (c’est son nom…) vous permet à la fois de profiter de vos morceaux favoris, mais également des vidéos grâce à un écran LCD intégré. Le tout est livré avec une télécommande. Son prix ? 11 000$, rien que ça… via ohgizmo

Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Deer Tick: "Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)" (mp3) from War Elephant (reissue, out November 25th) other Ed+Laurie posts at Largehearted Boy Ed Laurie: "Albert" (mp3) from Meanwhile in the Park Ed Laurie: "Andalucia (demo)" (mp3) ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Songbird, the cross-platform, open-source music manager long in development, has reached its first beta release, 0.7, code-named "Fugazi." New to this version are an interface overhaul with drag-and-drop capabilities, Last.fm and smart playlist capabilities, improved ...

Archos is trying to lure iPod touch users with its new line of what the French company touts as the Internet media tablets. All three hard drive-based tablets - Archos 5, 5G and 7 - share an Cortext-powered superscaler ARM processor; a touchscreen GUI; an uncompromised Opera web browser with Adobe Flash ...

A studio recording from 1978 — over at Rondo. A picture named neat.jpg