A couple of weeks ago I was given an invitation token to a new streaming service much similar to Spotify. This new service with the project name WIMP is also based on the same technical setup as Spotify, coded in AIR. The main difference however is that where Spotify will remain free, you need to pay to use WIMP. Why? They do not believe in a comercial based income model. Fair enough. My first impression when loading the client is that...

Seeing I am in the musical mood tonight, I might as well include another find I had the other day. Animusic – a completely computer animated band. It’s impressive what they have been able to come up with using nothing but computer animations together with their music. Below you can watch one of their songs “Pipe Dreams”. You can find more songs from them on Youtube, though I would strongly encourage you to buy their...

Earlier today we heard about the coming of MP3HD, in my eyes a great announcement even though one can wonder why people don’t put more effort into FLAC. Afterall, MP3 is not free while FLAC is. Anyhow; for those of you whom don’t know what MP3HD is; it’s a lossless audio codec that has backward compatibility and have bitrates ranging from 500 to 900 kbps. It’s possible that you yourself can go test it out as the...