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A beautiful animated, interactive music video. Pintando una Canción.

There are some Sigur Rós videos available on their official website including the Heima trailers I’ve already mentioned.
One video I’m particularly fond of is Glósóli from the album Takk. (The video is available on the DVD part of the special edition Sæglópur EP.) I just love the concept of the video set in a [...]

After announcing a (not so) massive price drop from $599 to $399 for the 8GB iPhone Apple posted a new page for the future Wi-Fi Music Store to buy songs on the go. The page shows an iPhone at 9:42 AM with the same time displayed in the clock app’s icon. Other iPhone pictures at [...]

Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]

Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]

Tangerine1 is a new OS X application (currently a free beta) to automatically analyze the BPM of your music in iTunes. Potion Factory states:
Tangerine lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. [...] it analyzes the songs blazingly fast to the tune of more than 3 per second (on an 1.83 [...]

I’ve noticed many visitors coming from Google are searching for “itunes 7 ogg“. If you want to listen to your Ogg Vorbis files in iTunes you may want to take a look at the Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) project.

Previous versions of iTunes had an iTunes-ogg.icns and iTunes-wma.icns file inside the program’s package containing iTunes [...]

onAirNow 1.5 is a WordPress plugin for displaying a lot of information about your currently playing song (in your music player of choice) on your blog.
onAirNow 1.5 (September 3rd, 2006): changes since version 1.4

Added a new <image> tag that takes the URL of an image and displays it above the song info. Also added the [...]

onAirNow 1.4 — released today. onAirNow 1.4 is a simple WordPress plugin for displaying information about your currently playing song which is even more flexible than it’s predecessors and has some neat new features:
onAirNow 1.4 (August 22nd, 2006): changes since version 1.3

If no artist and title info was found inside the pseudo XML of the [...]

A »Now Playing« Plugin for WordPress
onAirNow is a WordPress plugin for displaying information about your currently playing song on your blog. It reads the track information from a file and displays it where you want it to appear (usually your sidebar).
I’m using it on my website since a few days and it’s really great and [...]

Neben besoffenen Elchen und verrückten Fröschen für das jugendliche Telefon gibt es – wenn man der Legende Glauben schenken möchte – auch Musik auf MTViva. Doch wo ist die gute Musik geblieben? Es folgt eine kleine Suche in der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft.