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It has gotten a lot easier to discover the artist of a song you hear on the radio or in a movie nowadays. Most of the times its sufficient to take down some of the lyrics and do a google search on them. But sometimes it is not so simple - think about electronica or other music without lyrics. I have a couple of clips on my computer which include samples of music that I would love to know the artist of. How, then can I find out? Here is one way that I've found (if there are better ways, please let me know by leaving a comment). First, you need to extract the audio from the video file. For avi, mpg, or flv files you can do either: ffmpeg -i my_video_file.avi extracted_audio.mp3 or mplayer -dumpaudio my_video_file.avi -dumpfile extracted_audio.mp3 You may need to extract the part that you want using Audacity. Now the question is: How do we go about identifying the extracted audio? The method I used was to install MusicBrainz Picard . which can use audio fingerprinting to identify the ...

Cardinology is due out Oct 29. If you want a sneak peak of what it will sound like, then there is a compilation of live versions of the songs here . Check it out! First impressions: I agree with one of the commentators that it might be too jam bandy (as it was in a concert I saw him in about a year ago) and a bit more mellow than I might prefer. But even so I'm definitely looking forward to it. Technorati Tags: music , ryan.adams

First, by year (my top 5 for each year): 2000 Kid A - Radiohead Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams American III: Solitary Man - Johnny Cash Since I Left You - Avalanches 2001 Gold - Ryan Adams Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch The Swimming Hour - Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire At Dawn - My Morning Jacket Burnside on Burnside - R.L. Burnside 2002 Demolition - Ryan Adams The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron and Wine Jerusalem - Steve Earle Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco Control - Pedro the Lion 2003 Hail to the Thief - Radiohead Master and Everyone - Bonnie Prince Billy Blackberry Belle - The Twilight Singers Terroir Blues - Jay Farrar Give Up - The Postal Service 2004 Real Gone - Tom Waits Set Yourself on Fire - Stars Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens 2005 Illinois - Sufjan Stevens Jacksonville City Nights - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Ye...

... that Britney Spears made famous 70 years or so later. I'm talking about: Oops! I Did It Again Check it out - you can listen to it online! I especially love the doo-wop section! Technorati Tags: Louis Armstrong , Britney Spears , music

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