Vito Cassisi – Tech Blog
4Feb/104

Mediocre music and the mainstream market

The music you've come to love has been sabotaged.

Not many people realise the degree of degradation music quality has experienced over the years. It has got to the point where the old vinyl records of yesteryear, the same ones that were popular some 100 years ago, provide higher quality dynamic range and clarity than today's CD audio. Remasters of old classics are sounding worse than the originals, and new music is sub-standard from the get go. It begs the question; surely technology has improved since vinyl?

27Jan/100

YouTube Disco – music for all!

Music discovery, with added awesome.

Ever used YouTube to listen to or discover music? Well now you can do it in a much more intuitive way! YouTube Disco (short for YouTube Discovery) is a new service which consolidates music clips from your favourite artists into a functional playlist-esque UI. In addition to watching artists of your choosing, you're able to select 'mix tapes' to list tracks from artists with similar styles. Expanding from this is the 'Related Artists' tab which displays similar artists bar tracks.

16Sep/090

Zune HD launched in America

Straight from the mouth of Microsoft!
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The snazzy Zune HD (Zune 4.0) is due for release today, along with the popular Zune software (which, according to rumour, may eventually replace Windows Media Player).