AWS: How to create your first Alexa skill
How to create your first Alexa skill –with pictures!
Radio: Fetching album artwork using beets
You will need the requests library to capture album artwork from Fetch Art [http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/fetchart.html]. pip install requests Install...
Interesting Music Projects
Here are a list of interesting music projects. Classifiers and Curators * Music Map [https://developers.musimap.net/] is attempting to create a database that organizes music into emotional...
What is ISRC?
ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code] is pretty much like the audio equivalent of a GS1 US [https:...
Installing Adobe Media Server on EC2
Adobe Media Server 5.0 offers media publishers some new ways to deliver on-demand video and music to iOS devices through Apple's HTTP Live Streaming. This means that...
Cloud-Based Radio Using Adobe Media Server
Adobe Flash may be dead, but Adobe Media Server carries a lot of compelling features. This entry aims to identify a few of those essential features so that...
Streaming Mp3's using SoundManager2 + MediaElement
I've written about 8 or 9 streaming music players in the past six years, and considering how quickly client-side technology changes, I figure I'll have to write a...
Radio: How to submit your podcast to iTunes and Spotify
Sometimes you need to self-host your own Podcast files and feed. Here's how using Amazon Web Services.
AWS: Understanding Alexa's Key Concepts
A glossary of Alexa terms you need to know before you start developing skills.
AWS Elemental
Amazon acquired a company called Elemental [https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/03/amazon-acquires-elemental-technologies-for-a-reported-500-million-in-cash/] back in 2015 and has now released a suite of products to help broadcasters (big...
How Classical KUSC uses data to make product decisions
The digital team at Classical KUSC [http://www.kusc.org] and Classical KDFC [http://www.kdfc.com] uses data regularly to help make product decisions. For our most...
Distributing Music and Video Over the Web
There are a lot of ways to distribute music and video over the web, and it's often difficult to figure out which features (and service plans) are essential...
Digital music: production, distribution, and consumption
I like this quote because it helps me understand the trade-off music will experience as it transitions from an analog medium to a digital one. > It could be...
Cloud computing & song scrobbling on Last.fm
I'm extremely late to this whole Last.fm thing, but then again, I'm not sure if I've missed much. From what I can tell, Last.fm is a...
