If there’s one thing the internet has brought about concerning musicians, artists and bands, it’s that the playing field is a whole lot more even. Whereas in pre-internet days it was absolutely required to play in local clubs, post flyers everywhere and spend a fair amount of cash on production of CDs just to sell them, these days you could do it all...

When it comes to my MP3 files I like having the album art included with it and directly embedded in the file. In Windows XP I was using a specific program to do this but it wouldn’t work in Windows 7, so I had to find something else that would do the job. There is EasyTAG, a multi-platform program that works great in Linux or Windows, but the interface is...

If you are tired of the ‘same old – same old’ music you hear on the radio and are looking for something new, finding sites which cater to budding musicians is an excellent place to look. I used to be a huge fan of mp3.com about 10 years ago (before commercial music took it over) as it was a great place to find good quality amateur music. A...

When optical drives started to become the norm in home computers, all of a sudden there were two types of CD-Rs for sale, the data kind and the "music" kind. As to the question of whether or not a CD labeled as a "music" disc is safe to write data to or not, the answer is yes. Are they as reliable as "regular" data CD-Rs? I’ll...

Pandora.com is quite a nice web application. If you’re not familiar with Internet Radio, it’s a way to stream music to your computer according to may want to listen to, without having to create mixes of music on your own. Most of the time, there’s no audio advertising, which was one upside to mixing your own music. Pandora is different from other ...