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Lists of software or websites

Best Dynamic Microphones Of All Time: The Top 6 List

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Looking for some good dynamic mics to add to your locker? Well in this post, I reveal 6 of the greatest ones in music history. ~ Best Dynamic Microphones of all time: The Top 6 List

Useful Audio / Visual / Shipping Web Sites

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Audiophile Rock Album Reviews ~ Absolute Sound
Advanced music search ~ Amazon.com
Album artwork search ~ Albumart
Amazing album cover scans ~ Album Art Exchange
Audio forum and resources ~ Audio Asylum
Audio forum and resources ~ Audiokarma
Balanced Interconnects – Properly connect your gear
Barcode Reader – Inlite Research
Beatles releases comparisons ~ BeatleDrops
Best selling albums ~ Wikipedia
Billboard Magazine Hot 100 ~ Wikipedia
Calgary Cassette Preservation Society ~ Local public domain repository
Canadian artists’ discographies ~ Wikipedia
Canadian Folk ~ Last.FM
Canadian Folk Artists ~ Northern Journey
Canadian Folk Music Award Winners ~ The Canadian Folk Music Awards
Canadian Record Album Covers ~ The Record Project
Canadian Society for Traditional Music ~ Arranged by artist
Canadian Music Resources ~ Institute for Canadian Music
Canadian music search ~ Museum Of Canadian Music
Canadian music search ~ Amazon.ca
Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell ~ The Library of Congress
Digital audio forum ~ Hydrogen Audio
Digital media primer for geeks ~ Xiph.org
Directory of music resources – Open Directory Project
Distortion and music ~ Wikipedia
Dynamic Range Database ~ Album List & Search
EAC set up ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC gap settings ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC Guides ~ Hydrogen Audio
EAC cue and log conversion ~ EAC Helper
Encyclopedia ~ MusicBrainz, The Open Music Encyclopedia
Foobar – Skinning Tutorial ~ DeviantArt
Genres – popular ~ Wikipedia
Golden Ears – Hearing Better ~ Philips
Hardware database & equipment resources ~ HiFi Engine
Label Codes ~ Wikipedia
Library catalog meta-search ~ OCLC WorldCat
Loudness War & Poorly Remastered CDs ~ Youtube
Lyric Search ~ Lyrster
Musical styles ~ Listology
Musipedia ~ The Open Music Encyclopedia
Name of a song is unknown? ~ Name My Tune
Needledrops ~ 78 RPM Music Archive
Pink Floyd Discographies Page ~ Pink Floyd Archives
Playlists – Search for and share ~ Playlists.com
Ratings ~ RYM (Rate Your Music)
Record Grades – Record Collectors Guild
Record grading 101 ~ Goldmine
Record labels ~ Wikipedia
Record Store Search ~ MusicStack
Record Store Search ~ Vinyl Hub
Removing clicks and record noise ~ Audacity
Rocky Mountain Folk Club ~ Southern Alberta & Calgary Folk Music
Scanning tips ~ by Wayne Fulton
Shipping Info ~ Frank’s Compulsive Guide To Postal Addresses
SPARS Codes ~ Wikipedia
Surround Sound Speaker Set-up ~ THX
Stylus maintenance ~ The Magic Eraser Method
Tagging songs by moods ~ Allmusic
Track, show and find music ~ Last.FM
Target CDs ~ Keith Hirsch
Top 100 Albums Of All Time (2013) ~ Dave’s Music Database
Turntable Information ~ Vinyl Engine
Universal Scobbler ~ Last.FM
Unusual types of gramophone records ~ Wikipedia
URL Decoder / Encoder ~ Eric Meyer
Vinyl Engine ~ All the information you need to get the best sound from your records
Vinyl Pressing Plants ~ Total Sonic Media
Vinyl Price Guide ~ Popsike
Vinyl Ripping Tips ~ cliveb
World Telephone Numbering Guide ~ WTNG
YouTube Music Videos With Pictures – 9 steps ~ WikiHow

Recommended Audio Software

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The Best Of The Best List

Accuraterip ~ Accurate DAE (Digital Audio Extraction)
AcoustID ~ Identify & Fingerprint Songs
Ampache ~ Freeware streaming music server
Audacity ~ Freeware audio editor & recorder
AudioShell ~ Freeware Windows audio tag integration
BatchEncoder ~ Freeware Audio Encoder Frontend
Boom Audio Player ~ Foobar2000’s simpler sibling
CDBurnerXP ~ Freeware CD & DVD Burner
CUETools ~ Freeware cue file tools
DADA Auto-Rating For Foobar ~ Automatically rate your music
DRC (Digital Room Correction) ~ Advanced equalization
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) ~ Advanced freeware CD ripper
Equalizer APO ~ Advanced Windows Equalization
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio CODEC) ~ Open lossless audio format
Foobar2000 ~ Advanced freeware audio player
Foobar2000 @ Deviant Art ~ Skins & themes
foo_discogs = Foobar2000 + Discogs ~ Advanced file tagging
freeDB ~ Set up freeDB access Search FreeDB
KeyFinder ~ Freeware musical key analyzer
LAME ~ Freeware mp3 encoder
MP3 Diags ~ Freeware mp3 file repair tool
MP3Gain ~ Freeware mp3 volume normalization
Mp3tag ~ Freeware metadata tag editor
MusicBrainz Picard ~ Tag songs with MusicBrainz metadata and cover art
MuseScore ~ Music composition and notation
PlexTools ~ Plextor’s CD ripper
PowerShell Audio ~ PowerShell-driven audio interface
ReplayGain ~ Advanced gain equalization
ReplayGain & Foobar ~ ReplayGain within Foobar2000
ReplayGain & Foobar under Linux ~ RPG with Wine & Foobar2000
Room EQ Wizard ~ Room equalization analysis & compensation filters
RightMark Audio Analyzer ~ Freeware Audio Hardware Analyzer
SoundHound ~ Name that tune
Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing
Teac Editor / Teac Player ~ Hi Resolution Audio Editor & Player
VU Meter ~ Freeware Standalone Analog Volume Unit Meter
WinAmp Repository ~ NullSoft WinAmp archive
Windows DirectShow Filters – Use FLAC & OGG in Windows, freeware
WMP Tag Plus ~ Extends Windows tag support, freeware

Best Discogs Lists

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