Monthly Archives: February 2009

Back to ambient…

Silencio draft#5 (about 22:00) Appr. 22:00 long ©2009 tim p scott (click (>) to play) Going through old ideas I I decided to put back my Eno/Budd/Lustmord hat and the result is a new ambient/soundscape piece. It still needs some tweaking but in any case we’ll put up a player with the current draft on [...]

A new and excellent site for musicians: bandcamp.com

Update stardate 4 Sept 2009 I’m liking this site more and more. If nothing else, their FAQ is the most fun to read of any site. They obviously understand “Web gruettiquette” and “independent music” well. The little player tool that embeds into wordpress stuff doesn’t look so hot. I went back to their site to [...]

The replaygain computations

Winamp can calculate the “ReplayGain” value for an album, or individual tracks. What is ReplayGain? This will be explained in more detail on the LOUDNESS WARS page but in short, it’s an objective measure for how relatively loud a whole album is. For instance, if an album has a ReplayGain value of -5 dB, that [...]

Firefox/Safari/Chrome: better now!

Originally published 2009 Feb 1 The cool thing about wordpress.com is that you can purchase an option to customize the CSS for your site. This is great and allows you to do amazing things to the site appearance. Of course, the problem is that every browser (Internet Explorer[IE], Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) has its own [...]