Tag: Songs
3 Gratis Karaoke Downloads von MidiFine auf Karaoke-Freeware.de
by admin on Dez.20, 2009, under Freie Musik
Kaum zu glauben, aber wahr: Auf Karaoke-Freeware.de gibt es anscheinend 3 gratis Karaoke Songs aus den aktuellen Charts zum freien Download. Kein Club und kein Abo! Also mal anhören. Gesponsort wurde das Angebot von MidiFine-Shop, dem führenden Midi-Karaoke-Song-Anbieter.
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Why Is DRM-Free Music Tagged With Name and E-Mail? Apple Keeps Mum
by admin on Feb.03, 2008, under Freie Musik
Apple has declined to explain why its new DRM-free music files are watermarked with users’ names and e-mail addresses.Earlier this week, Apple iTunes 7.2 brought the new ability to download tracks from EMI Records without copy protection. But the unprotected files are labeled with the buyer’s details, leading some to wonder if Apple is appending the information as an anti-piracy measure.
But Apple is remaining mum about its reasoning.
An Apple spokesman suggested by e-mail that Wired News contact Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research who has been briefed about iTunes Plus. The Apple spokesman didn’t respond to further requests for comment.
Gartenberg said there are many reasons why Apple would want to tag music sold through the iTunes store. The information could be used as a proof of purchase, or to facilitate upgrades (songs previously bought through iTunes can be upgraded to higher fidelity versions for an extra 30 cents). The identifier could help identify songs missing from albums (iTunes offers a “complete album” feature), as well as to thwart piracy. (continue reading…)
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Artists | Ich + Ich - New Single “Stark”
by admin on Jan.14, 2008, under Artists
“Ich + Ich” oder auch “Ich und Ich” haben nach “Vom selben Stern” eine neue Erfolgssingle veröffentlicht. Die zweite Single “Stark” ist eine Ballade und beschreibt den Konflikt, dass Menschen nach außen hin oft stärker und selbstbewusster erscheinen, als sie in Wirklichkeit sind. Wer kennt das nicht? Als besonderen Bonus enthält die Single als B-Seite den bisher unveröffentlichen exklusiven Song “Nur In Meinem Kopf”. (continue reading…)
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Radioheads free Album now the top-selling CD in the US!
by admin on Jan.12, 2008, under Alben, Randinformationen
In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay, ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week after the CD version hit record shops and other retailers.
The album, the first in four years from the closely watched British rock act, sold 122,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That represents a mixed result for the band. It’s a sharp drop compared with the debut of Radiohead’s previous album, 2003’s “Hail to the Thief,” but it’s far from a flop, considering the steep decline in music sales in the last four years and the typically weak sales in the post-Christmas period. “Thief” sold about 300,000 in its first week in 2003.
In any case the figures challenge the conventional wisdom that music fans no longer have an affinity for plastic. The sales of the album, which also snagged the top spot on the British weekly music chart, came despite the fact that “In Rainbows” — in the form of digital files — had been acquired by many fans after the band offered it in an unconventional pay-what-you-want offering through a Web site, inrainbows.com. The album was released on plastic CDs and vinyl LPs on Jan. 1, with the CD priced at $13.98, though it could be found for as little as $7.99 at outlets like Amazon.com.
Some retailers viewed the Radiohead figures as a sign of the continuing market for so-called physical products in the music business, where the popularity of iTunes, music blogs and other sites have made the digital file appear to be the coin of the realm. In particular they said even fans who received the digital files distributed by Radiohead may have decided to pay for the better audio quality versions on CD or LP.
“Having a physical, archival high-fidelity master recording that you can side-load into your MP3 player of choice for a similar price is significantly better than just purchasing zeros and ones,” said Eric Levin, owner of the independent record shop Criminal Records in Atlanta and founder of an 18-member alliance of independent retailers. “I feel like that’s what 75 percent of the people are saying.”
Mr. Levin said that at his store vinyl copies of “In Rainbows” outsold the CD by a wide margin. Demand for the album was such that some record shops put it on sale before the label’s planned “street date,” resulting in sales of about 9,000 copies the previous week.
But sales of the plastic and vinyl versions of the album also received a boost from digital services like iTunes, where the album sold about 28,000 copies. The iTunes service, which sells individual songs for 99 cents and albums typically for $9.99, had not carried any of the band’s previous albums, owing in part to Radiohead’s demand that its recordings be sold only as complete works.
But Bryce Edge, one of Radiohead’s managers, said the band decided to sell “In Rainbows” on iTunes because it expects that EMI, the British music giant that released the band’s first six albums, will soon post them for sale on the service, and it would be strange for the new album to be excluded. An EMI representative declined to comment.
The decision to release the music as a digital file so far in advance of the CD also allowed time for the music to circulate on free, unlicensed file-swapping networks. Big Champagne, a tracking service that studies file-sharing, estimates that the album was downloaded more than 100,000 times on free networks in the first 24 hours after Radiohead delivered it to fans who had preordered it from its Web site. But Eric Garland, chief executive of Big Champagne, said that by offering the music for as little as zero from their own site, Radiohead “stole market share” from pirate networks.
Mr. Edge said that sales of 100,000 copies of the album this week would be “almost certainly less than the number we would have achieved if we hadn’t” offered it as a digital download. But the band still came out ahead, he said, in part because it attracted so many fans to Radiohead’s Web site, where it collected e-mail addresses from fans looking to acquire the album.
The band has not said how many copies it distributed. Now that the CD is in shops, some fans who paid for the initial downloads may have been tempted to buy the album, in effect, for a second time. But Steve Gottlieb, chief of the independent label TVT Records, said he believed the sales mainly reflected fans who were acquiring the music for the first time.
“Radiohead is one of those really big groups that appeals to people outside the intensely pirating demographic of 16 to 29,” he said. “To the extent Radiohead still has a significant audience in its 30s and 40s, there’s a bigger audience of those people who will still pick up something at Best Buy or don’t want to bother with figuring out how to go to a Radiohead Web site and track it down.”
Still, Mr. Gottlieb said, the sales suggested that the band’s name-your-price offering, and fans’ subsequent free sharing of files, had taken a toll. “Clearly we can’t give it all away and expect to sell CDs,” he said.
But Radiohead will have yet more opportunities to gain fans. The band said yesterday that it planned to perform in more than 20 North American cities this year.
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Free Music for Downloads and Listening!
by admin on Jan.10, 2008, under Freie Musik, WebRadio
Hey, I know you. RIAA lawsuits have scared you off P2P, but the iTunes DRM is both too expensive and too restrictive for your tastes, right? Then it’s time you head to the web. In the past year the number of web sites linking to free downloads and streaming music has exploded, meaning there are more ways than ever to get your music fix. Today I’ll highlight the best web sites—and best search kung-fu—for finding free music online.
MP3 Search Engines and Streaming Sites
First I’m going to take a look at sites that make it easy to both stream and download music, starting with my favorite of the bunch: The Hype Machine.
The Hype Machine aggregates MP3s from the vast world of music blogs. Searching for an artist in The Hype Machine returns tons of results, and you can stream the songs inline in the results. The site itself provides links to buy music at Amazon or in iTunes if it’s available, but you can also click through the read the original blog post containing the song and download music directly from that site. The handy player at the bottom of The Hype Machine’s page creates a playlist of all the results on a page so listening to the results is easy. You can also choose favorites to build playlists. Most of the sites in the section are brand new, but Hype Machine has time on its side, having been around since 2005.
SeeqPod is a straight up MP3 search engine at first glance, but after you perform your first search you’ll notice a fancy Flash app that makes it easy to create playlists in your browser via a simple drag-and-drop interface. SeeqPod doesn’t have easy to find download links for the songs, but the URLs are readily available if you’re willing to do the typing. Even cooler, though, SeeqPod has an iPhone/iPod touch-optimized interface for streaming any song directly in mobile Safari.
SkreemR is another simple, barebones MP3 search engine. Like Hype Machine, SkreemR pulls its content from across the internet and can stream any song in your browser. Unlike Hype Machine, SkreemR has simple download links for every file you listen to so you don’t need to follow it to the source if you want to download it.
Thesixtyone has positioned itself to be a Digg-like community for music, which makes it a great place to discover new music (though it still handles search like the rest of them). Some songs on Thesixtyone include direct links for downloads, while others only provide links to buy the music on Amazon MP3. (Read more)
Deezer is a well designed site with more of a focus on building playlists, rating songs, and other more advanced features for registered users (though you don’t have to be registered to use the site). You can even view and listen to entire albums on Deezer. Like the others listed above, you’ll find tons of great music there, but download links can be hard to come by.
BeeMP3 isn’t really about streaming music or making playlists—it’s more of a straight search and download site, providing details like bitrate, format, and frequency of the encoded music file. You can’t preview music, but you can sure download it.
Most of the music you’ll find on Songza consists of live recordings, which is excellent for finding rare songs or performances, but unfortunately Songza isn’t much for providing download links—but at least their player embeds nicely (as you can see above).
For those of you who want to make sure that you’re not downloading any copyrighted material, CCHits aggregates Creative Commons-only music so you can download anything you want, guilt-free.
Tools to Streamline Your MP3 Downloads
Now that you know where to download all that music from your browser, you’ll probably need a few tools to streamline the process.If you’re an iTunes user, might I recommend the Windows-only add-on Tunestor, which adds a “Download Directly to iTunes” option to you right-click context menu in both Firefox and Internet Explorer so that you don’t have to go through the rigmarole of the save-and-move-to-iTunes process every time you find a new song you like.
Alternately, iTunes lovers may also want to check out iTunes Folder Watch, a freeware Windows app that can monitor folders of your choosing (your Downloads folder, for example) and automatically add your new songs to your iTunes library.
If you just can’t seem to find a download link but you’d kill to get a hold of the song that’s streaming in your browser, stream rippers like StationRipper and Screamer Radio can easily do the dirty work for you.
Tools to Download and Listen to Your Music Over the Internet
Finally, they may require a bit more work on your part than the options above, but if you’re willing to take a few minutes you can easily access your own music library anywhere with one of the following tools. lets you upload your entire music library to their servers using their uploader application (for now it’s free), stream, and manage it using a very iTunes-like browser-based Flash player. It also has a great social aspect that allows you to stream music from other users’ libraries. Not too shabby.
If you’d rather not put the keys to your music in someone else’s hands, Orb, a freeware, Windows-only application streams music from your home computer to any other computer through your web browser. It takes a little setting up, but we walk you through it here
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Googling You Free Muisc
No discussion about finding free music on the web would be complete without mentioning the classic Google search that can yield tons of results of directories full of downloadable MP3s. First, there’s the straight-up Google search chock-full of operators to find those music files in open directories:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “artist|album|track|etc”
Just replace the “artist|album|track|etc” section with whatever you’re searching for… like this one. You can also tweak the search to yield other search results, looking for other filetypes (it’s looking for WMAs and MP3s above).
Alternately, there’s the free, open source application Google Hacks, which is designed specifically to do the dirty work of searching for whatever files (music, video, or otherwise) available in Google-land.
Surely we’ve missed a favorite or two, so if you’ve got a resource for finding free music on the web worth mentioning, let’s hear it in the comments.
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Make RockBand for Playstation 3 work on Playstation 2
by admin on Jan.03, 2008, under Randinformationen
With all the delays of the RockBand game for playstation 2 I decided to perform a little experiment on my own, and then bam! Success!I had herd that all the pieces for the RockBand game connected through USB ports, but online people were questioning it because the PS2 only has 2 ports and the game needs 3. USB is a standard, so it had to work and not to mention that it would be kind of stupid to build all the RockBand hardware through a USB standard and then require manufacturers to still make changes inside the instruments for the different systems. It all comes down to money, and counting on the thriftiness of the game companies it was a good gamble to make. So I went and bought everything to run the experiment.
- Rock Band Special Edition Package for Playstation 3
- Rock Band Game for Playstation 2
- USB Hub (I used a small Targus PA055U 4 Port USB 1.1 Ultra Mini Hub)
After finding out it worked there was only a one small issue I had. If you have Guitar Hero 3 and you need another Guitar for RockBand. The Guitar Hero 3 guitar will always default as the one on the left , no matter what USB configuration . Not that big of a deal though!!! I love it!
And use the Drums to unlock all songs, its so easy!
Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue
Rock On!!!
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DRM-freie Musik ist für Konsumenten wichtig!
by admin on Dez.17, 2007, under Randinformationen
Entertainment Media Research hat in Zusammenarbeit mit der Anwaltsfirma Olswang ein Studie durchgeführt, die belegt, dass Konsumenten ein stärkeres Problem mit DRM (Digital Rights Management) haben, als bisher von der Musikindustrie angenommen. Die nach dem Zufallsprinzip ausgesuchten 1700 britischen Befragten aus dem UK-Verzeichnis von Entertainment Media Research mit 300 000 Musikkonsumenten gaben deutliche Antworten. Die Studie wurde im Juni 2007 durchgeführt.
Demnach ist die Anzahl der Menschen, die noch nie von DRM gehört haben innerhalb eines Jahres von 50% auf nur noch 37% gesunken ist. Im gleichen Zeitraum hat sich die Anzahl der Befragten, die sagte, sie seien gut bis sehr gut über DRM und Kopierschutz von Musik informiert nahezu verdreifacht.
Im Hinblick auf die Fragen zu DRM unterstreicht die Studie, dass DRM ein zunehmend wichtiges Thema für Konsumenten ist - 68% der Befragten haben die Ansicht geäußert, dass Downloads “nur die Anschaffung wert sind, wenn sie DRM - frei sind”. Weiter würden es viele Befragten vorziehen, mehr für DRM - freie Tracks und Songs zu bezahlen, als den Standardpreis inklusive Einschränkungen durch Kopierschutzmaßnahmen. Die Studie bestätigt den schlechten Ruf, den DRM bei den britischen Konsumenten hat und wirft einige bedeutenden Fragezeichen für die Musikindustrie auf. Dies geschieht zu einer Zeit, zu der laut der selben Studie das unerlaubte Downloaden in jeder einzelnen gemessenen demografischen Kategorie angestiegen ist. In der gleichen Zeitspanne wuchs auch das legale Downloaden um 15% an, jedoch weniger als erwartet.
Die größten Plattenlabels versuchen nun, mit der neuen Situation zurechtzukommen, Universal Music hatte im August 2007 angekündigt, tausenden von Alben und Tracks / Songs, die im MP3 Format erhältlich sind, ohne DRM - Schutz zu verkaufen. “Das Experiment wird von August bis Januar laufen und Faktoren wie Konsumentennachfrage, Preisempfindlichkeit und Piraterie im Zusammenhang mit der Verfügbarkeit von offenen MP3s analysieren.” Die Musik, die Tracks von 50Cent, The Black Eyed Peas oder Amy Winehouse beinhalten soll, wird über Google, Wal-Mart und Amazon.com verkauft, aber nicht über iTunes.
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Sucht doch einfach mal nach freien MP3s bei Siteload
by admin on Dez.16, 2007, under Freie Musik
Siteload sucht alle frien Songs aus dem Internet zusammen. Es erstellt einen Musikkatalog und stellt ihn seinen Besuchern zurVerfügung. James Blunt - Out of my mind, Björk - Verandi, Christina Aguilera - Make over? - Wollt Ihr mehr? Siteload bietet bereits über 388.000 freie Songs zum download an.
Und das alles ist absolut legal, denn Siteload sucht nur nach freien Songs, die auf Künstlerseiten etc zum Download bereit gestellt wurden. Gratis Hörproben von Alben, alles was man will. Viel Spaß!
