Sounds nice and fans of black music will be pelased that they can hear music by Jason Yarde with vocal input by Eska Mtungwasi, Cleveland Watkiss, Tunde Jegede or Dennis Rollins. Unfortunately the music can only be heard by the use of the flash plug-in (no audio files for downloading :-/) and the interactive (shockwave) music tools either didn’t work on my firefox (plus within the shockwave file I get directed to apple.com to install Quicktime…no thanks, I don’t want this crappy player, I prefer vlc) or the browser just crashes. Nevertheless I like the idea of soundjunction.org and it provides some useful information.
2005/25/10 at 20:11
Well, I don’t know if it helps with the SoundJunction page - which is great, btw - but have you ever heard of QuickTime_Alternative? It sometimes works with embedded movies, sometimes it doesn’t, but it makes a good piece of software together with the included Media Player Classic. (And, of course, there’s also RealAlternative, which I use to listen to BBC Radio 1 and everything else ;O))
2005/25/10 at 20:42
Yes, I know about QT Alternative…actually I’ve installed it and then deleted it but left the entries in the registry so I can play the mov-files vlc won’t play (sometimes it doesn’t play the sound) with jetaudio, which also plays real audio files. Jetaudio is made by Cowon, a company who also makes very good digital audio players with ogg and flac support.
If I really think a mov file is worth watching, I usually get the url of a mov file from the sourcecode or by clicking the Page Info button in Firefox and have a look at the list of the mediafiles on a page.
Anyway, I’m old-fashioned and prefer simple HTML and an option to download a media file :-)
2005/26/10 at 09:18
Ok, I must admit that’s also what I do more often than not ;O) And as for Cowon: I own their iAudio M3 (ogg, but no flac, though) and am quite happy with it. Their new stuff looks very cool, too!
2005/26/10 at 09:28
I have the M3 too…:-)…and it plays flac, even flac 8…maybe you should update to the latest firmware? Should be found here somewhere:
http://www.iaudiophile.net