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December 23, 2012
11:42 • 5 months ago

To answer your question, here’s what a 3D-printed vinyl record sounds like. (More details as to how it was made over this way.)

September 28, 2012
09:25 • 7 months ago

Last night, Neil Young showed off this weird device on “Letterman” — an audio player and digital-to-analog technology called Pono, which supposedly allows you to listen to music at the highest possible quality. That’s right, next time you crank up “Trans,” you’ll hear it as the artist intended it. Apparently, the music industry thinks he’s onto something, according to Rolling Stone. Our question: How many people are really annoyed by the low quality of their MP3s?

April 11, 2012
08:04 • 1 year ago

Tumblr is working with Spotify on a new audio embed feature Spotify calls “Play.” This is what Lala used to do before Apple bought it out and closed the service. But unlike Lala, this is an HTML5 iFrame embed, meaning it will work on iPads, conceivably. Finally, a company is doing this again. Here’s our favorite pop song that gets really creepy if you think about the lyrics too much, The Sugarcubes’ “Birthday.”

(Source: Spotify)

 

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