Category: Audio
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iCloud Cuckoo Land*
As regular readers will know, I’m a frustrated iTunes user. So what should I make of Apple’s announcements yesterday – in particular those associated with iCloud? I tend to still buy quite a lot of music on CD, if for no other reason than you get nice album covers and booklets to look at. It’s…
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RAJAR Adopting Digital
Over at the Onegoldensquare blog, I’ve written about what RAJAR is doing to upgrade its methodology and include a proportion of respondents completing their RAJAR diaries online. I should point out that I sit on the RAJAR Technical Management Group who implemented this, so I’m generally speaking in favour of its introduction! You can read…
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iTunes Woes – When Consolidate Breaks
This is a bit of a plea. Any solutions welcome… I have a big iTunes library. It’s something like 250GB because I keep certain old podcasts, have lots of music (ripped at high bit-rates), quite a few audiobooks (also in high quality) and now have a few films (mainly from “triple play” DVD/BluRay/digital sets). Anyway…
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Elbow at St Paul’s Cathedral
Last night Elbow played an exclusive set for Absolute Radio in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral – the first time that a rock band has ever performed there. It looked and sounded stunning. Watch an interview here and listen to the set on-air on 5 June. Looking down through the grate in the main…
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RAJAR Q1 2011 – A Little Thing
Last year BBC Four broadcast a wonderful one-off programme called The Joy of Stats. It featured Professor Hans Rosling who’s talks at places like TED have made him extremely popular and watchable. In particular he’s been employing a type of motion chart that’s really useful for observing multiple pieces of data over long periods of…
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A Binaural Test
Binaural Test Traffic by adambowie00 This isn’t the most exciting entry ever. If you fancy listening to some light traffic, then I suggest you plug some headphones into whatever device you’re viewing this on, and take a listen. The headphones bit is mandatory, as this is a binaural recording made via some newly purchased Roland…
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Sony Awards Redux
Listening to this week’s Radio Academy RadioTalk, I heard Talksport programme director Moz Dee and Media UK’s James Cridland talking about potential changes to the Sony Radio Academy Radio Awards (Thanks for the shoutout James!). There’s always a feeling that the ceremony goes on too long. And it is a long awards’ ceremony. Although if…
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RAJAR – Q1 2011
It’s early May, and that means it’s another RAJAR – that exciting time when radio stations in the UK learn their new listening figures. As ever, it’s a mixed bag, with ups and downs. In the up box is radio listening overall. It’s once again recorded a record reach, with 91.6% of the population listening…
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What Do I Do With My Music?
I’m facing a dilemma. I’m wondering whether I should ditch Apple for my music needs… Here’s where I am, as Duncan Bannatyne might say: I use iTunes to manage my music and audio. I have over 160GB of music/audio. Partly because I have a “reasonable” amount of music; partly because I rip that music at…
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Radio Well Worth Listening To
A couple of things that I heard over the weekend: Into The Music Library – This documentary from Jonny Trunk is a great introduction into the world of library music. You’ve heard an awful lot of it, but mostly you’re not aware of it. The documentary concentrates on music from the sixties and seventies. It’s…
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The Unthanks
You can only hope that the current Unthanks’ tour must surely be coming to an end very soon. Their website suggest a few days time. The reason I say that is that Rachel Unthank is currently very heavily pregnant! She and her sister Becky shared the singing duties last week at The Junction in Cambridge…
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Piccard in Space
A couple of weeks ago, saw the premiere of Will Gregory’s Piccard in Space at the Southbank. Before you think anything else: no this is not about Jean-Luc Picard, the fictional Star Trek character, but August Piccard (although if Wikipedia is to be believed, there is a link). In 1931, Piccard and Paul Kipfer attempted…
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Radioplayer
Radioplayer is finally here! Indeed, if you listen via the internet, you may have already spotted it, since it has been live for a few hours now. I’ve got to say that this is a really exciting development for the UK radio industry, and I don’t just say that because my employer is one of…