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Helpful EQ'ing tricks from Andrew Garver

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Music Industry

Helpful EQ'ing tricks from Andrew Garver

Tips on how to EQ your mix or master from mastering engineer Andrew Garver.

Radio

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.

For Developers

Awesome radio stations for software engineers

As a software engineer, I spend a lot of time discovering new tools to help me become more productive. One of the most valuable –yet not often mentioned– is music. Since I work in radio, I spend even more time thinking about music curation than the average person and yes,

Radio

Types of Digital Radio Apps

I've been working in radio for 7 years and over that time people, have asked me how many types of radio apps I can actually make. I tell that that I'm not making the same app over and over again. There are, in fact, many different types of radio apps.

Case Study

Moodles Real-time MIDI Composer Deep Dive

Moodles, a first-of-its-kind musical instrument app for kids to compose music without the banality of classes. Built using Swift, AudioKit, and Firebase.

Music Industry

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://www.gs1us.org/] for barcodes and product identification. According to GS1 US: > GS1 standards allow you to easily identify, manage, and share

Music Industry

How to get a 30s preview from Apple's API

How to get 30 second previews of music using Apple's API.

Music Industry

Sitar: Basic practice for right hand

Basic exercises for right hand.

Music Industry

Music apps for iPhone / iPad Musicians

My 2015 New Years resolution was to create one song a week using only an iPad. As a producer, I was curious to learn what challenges iPad musicians faced including songwriting, performing, recording, editing, mixing and mastering. 52 weeks, 52 songs later, I learned that the biggest challenge was figuring

Swift

MIDI: Curated list of MIDI frameworks for iOS development

I wanted to share a few nuts and bolts of MIDI for iOS development. Specifically, the best frameworks out there, a process for exploring MIDI, etc. MIDI Frameworks * AudioKit [https://audiokit.io/] is by far the best for Swift developers. * Csound [https://csound.com/] is a music computing system and

Idea Vault

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 categories. Geocaching * Track Dropper [https://vimeo.com/14712960] is a geo caching game that is really novel. Social Listening * &chill [https://andchill.

Swift

Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for iPhone and OS X

A curated list of awesome audio frameworks, libraries, and software for iOS, Mac OSX and tvOS. Audio Production * AudioKit for iOS and OS X [https://github.com/audiokit/AudioKit] is an audio SDK that helps you with audio and synthesis. * AudioKit examples [http://audiokit.io/blog/2015/05/26/swift-examples/

Music Industry

Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for Web

A curated list of awesome HTML + JavaScript frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php [https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php]. Audio Production * Melody Maker [https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Melody-Maker] * Arpeggiator [https://github.com/desandro/arpeggiator] * ToneJS [https://github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js/] - Web framework for making interactive music.

Music Industry

Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for Android

Creating an audio app for Android requires you to use libraries written in Java. This curated list is aimed at helping developers (both new and established) discover the best tools for their project. Music players or streaming These libraries can help you make your next radio or streaming on-demand app.

Music Industry

Curated list of audio and music industry API's

It's nearly impossible to make a music app without the help of a few music API's. Whether you intend to create a Shazam clone, a Soundcloud clone, a Kobalt clone, some sort of studio-in-a-box app, music quiz, DJ app, instrument app, radio app, social network mashup, etc. these API's can

Music Industry

Surf rock, space pop, and all things Spotify

The "What's new" section of Spotify isn't doing it for me. It offers very little considering how open I am to them, tracking my listening habits. I expect more by now. Spotify's app environment is fantastic, but that's only because We Are Hunted is too basic, Pitchfork is slow to

Music Industry

Headless Spotify Player

This is such a great idea. I've got to make this one day. Headless Spotify player [http://tapmantwo.blogspot.com/2013/04/building-headless-spotify-player-using.html]

Music Industry

Everything is a Remix

"Dazed and Confused", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bring it on Home" might not be as original as you think.

Music Industry

Making digital experiences better

This project is incredible. It really captures my mind and helps me understand the new generation of digital products that contain an analog experience. > "We're trying to make the digital experience feel more real, more tangible."

Music Industry

On being a DJ

A few of my favorite quotes on being a DJ. Focus > Focusing on doing one thing 100%. Too many ideas confuse people. – DJ Nu-Mark (2004 [http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/august_2004/numark.html])* Service > [A DJ is about] Serving a public and bringing joy and happiness to an audience. – Grand

Music Industry

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 music discovery site that collects and maintains your "musical foot stream" while allowing you to share your information with the community. The

Music Industry

@spotify vs @rdio

First, I have to say; I love @Spotify. I fell in love with the software while I was visiting a friend in London. He just had all this cool trip-hop queued up, and occasionally I'd hear some Brit (named Jonathan) tell me about how I should upgrade to their premium