Category Archives: Websites

Online resources

YouTube Audio Library ~ Free Open Video Music

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You can use the YouTube Audio Library to get free music and sound effects to use in your videos.

www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Librivox ~ Free Public Domain Audiobooks

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Read by volunteers from around the world. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to on their computers, iPods or other mobile devices, or to burn onto a CD.

Website

 

Discogs ~ Website Clientside Scripting

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Automatically sorting Discogs master release pages by country:

  1. First download and install Tampermonkey from https://tampermonkey.net/
  2. Once it’s installed, open the extension menu and click “Create new script”
  3. Paste the Javascript code below into the editor and click File > Save

(replace everything that’s there with this code)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Discogs Master Release Default Sort By Country
// @namespace    https://www.discogs-enhancer.com
// @version      0.1
// @description  Set MR release link to include custom filters by default
// @author       Matthew Salcido (discogs.enhancer@gmail.com)
// @match        https://www.discogs.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
    'use strict';
    const links = [...document.querySelectorAll('a')];
    links.forEach(link => {
        if (link.href.includes('/master/')) {
         link.href += '?sort=country&sort_order=';
        }
    });
})();

Ogger Club ~ Extend Discogs Functionality

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Ogger for Discogs is a web system which uses the Discogs API in order to provide advanced functionality for the Discogs community. The Ogger Club is the place where you can take advantage of all the system’s features.

The goal of the project is not to replace your Discogs experience, but to extend it with new features that have been requested over time and are yet to be available on Discogs.

ogger.club
Discogs Discussion
Discogs Group

Community Audio ~ Open Source Sound

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An open repository of public domain recordings at archive.org

Download and upload audio to and from the public domain.

archive.org/details/opensource_audio

ListenBrainz ~ Open Source Online Song Logging

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The ListenBrainz project is similar to the original AudioScrobbler®. Unlike the original project, ListenBrainz is open source and will publish its data as open data.

A team of former Last.fm and current MusicBrainz hackers created the first version of ListenBrainz in the space of a weekend. Since the original project was created, technology has advanced at an incredibly rapid pace, which made re-creating the original project fairly straightforward.

listenbrainz.org
List of Listenbrainz apps
Import listens from last.fm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListenBrainz

Freesound ~ Open Source Samples & Snippets

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Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to:

  • browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
  • upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
  • interact with fellow sound-artists!

We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research and be integrated in third party applications. Using the Freesound API researchers and developers can access Freesound content and retrieve meaningful sound information such as metadata, analysis files and the sounds themselves.

freesound.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesound

Last.fm ~ Scrobblers

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Last.fm is a web service that scrobbles, or tracks and publishes, your music profile and listening history.

Download software to scrobble from anywhere and from any service.

Official:
Last.fm
Github

Android:
github.com/simple-last-fm-scrobbler

Browser plugins:
Last.fm scrobbler for Chrome
scroblr.fm

Cross-platform:

github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
github.com/dumbie/ZuseMe

Foobar2000:
github.com/gix/foo_scrobble ~ newer
github.com/zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler

Web:

openscrobbler.com
universalscrobbler.com

Lacinato ABX ~ Comparing Track Quality

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Lacinato ABX is the only cross-platform ABX and shootout blind testing software for audio. It allows double-blind ABX testing of audio files (seeing if you can tell which file is being played), as well as “shootouts” (picking your favorite from a shuffled, anonymized list). Or you can just use it as a convenient way to switch between files (maintaining the current play position, if you like.

Lacinato ABX

Website
Web Service ~ online version
ABX Testing ~ Wikipedia

Clyp ~ An Audio File Sharing Site

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Clyp web service allows anyone to share and embed uploaded audio files. There’s also an API, a recorder and web page widgets.

Website
FAQ
Widgets
Online Voice Recorder

The Infinite Jukebox ~ A Song Stretcher

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“For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough” ~ The Infinite Jukebox

“The Infinite Jukebox is a web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song.”  ~ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

YAFS ~ Changing Song Order On USB Sticks

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Some players display, or play files, in the order that the file was originally copied to a USB drive or stick. YAFS (Yet Another FAT Sorter) allows the order to be changed to whatever you prefer. YAFS is a multi-platform, open source, freeware, command line utility with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

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Website
Visual YAFS ~ Frontend