Author: fredrik

  • Extracting mood data from music

    Extracting mood data from music

    We have provided data from the Moody database to a group of researchers in the Netherlands, who have been doing some really interesting work. Menno van Zaanen gives us a report: As a researcher working in the fields of computational linguistics and computational musicology, I am interested in the impact of lyrics in music. Recently,…

  • SimpleSong 0.2

    SimpleSong 0.2

    SimpleSong is becoming quite an iTunes competitor, in it’s own way. I’ve used it quite a bit myself, much more often than I thought I would. If you’re tired of dealing with a library, and want a library free music player with a minimalistic approach, lightweight, and close to zero startup time – this might…

  • Moot.ly is here!

    Moot.ly is here!

    Since April we’ve been keeping ourselves busy working on a new web application – http://moot.ly – and now it’s finally in the water, with a beta tag. It’s a communication tool, and we do believe the world needs another one of those. Mootly focuses on the ongoing conversation around a topic, with a group of…

  • Sing a simple song

    Sing a simple song

    If you’re like me you have a lot of music on your computer. You’re also fed up with maintaining a library of it all. Half the time I would just listen to music in Quick Look, if only it wouldn’t stop the moment I leave the finder. So this is as simple as it gets.…

  • Overlay app

    Overlay app

    Selecting an image would in some projects be quicker if you actually could see the image in the context. If you’re making a magazine, a brochure or a web banner, the design could be pretty much set, and you just need the image to go with it. So, what Overlay does is to show your…

  • search for artist from iTunes

    So, say you got this one great track in iTunes, and you want to look for more music from the same artist. Here’s a simple little script that can ease things up a bit. Download it This script makes a Amazon search in Firefox for the artist, but as you’re guessing you can make it…