fusi0n » Music http://fusi0n.org pL's blog on tech/mobile Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:19:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Kurt Astley – Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up http://fusi0n.org/internets/kurt-astley-never-gonna-give-your-teen-spirit-up http://fusi0n.org/internets/kurt-astley-never-gonna-give-your-teen-spirit-up#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:18 +0000 pluc http://blog.fusi0n.org/?p=1017 Today is another great day in the history of the Internet. Unless you've been living under a rock in a deep, dark corner of the web, you know who Rick Astley is, what he does and how it can be used to generate endless laughter possibilities. Keep that part in mind when I go over the next piece of information.
Someone named DJ Morgoth did an amazing mashup of Rick's (in)famous hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" to the music of Nirvana's Smell Like Teen Spirit. Let me say that again. Someone used Nirvana's instrumental from "Smell Like Teen Spirit" and added the voice of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up". If this doesn't sound awesome by now, please, by all means, do yourself a favor and check the video. Both pieces fit together in a very, very creepy way:

Was that not thoroughly awesome?! It is indeed a glorious day. Now for the geeky things: I saved the video from YouTube (using KissYouTube) and extracted the Audio Track using Avidemux. The result? A deliciously geeky MP3 that you know you want to use as your ringtone. You can get the MP3 of "Kurt Astley's" latest hit, "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up" right here. Jonathan Boyer points out that you can get this wonderful piece of Internet history, along with other really weird mixes and an excessive use of the Music Pirate icon on Morgoth's album.

]]> http://fusi0n.org/internets/kurt-astley-never-gonna-give-your-teen-spirit-up/feed 7 Add Song Lyrics to your iPod http://fusi0n.org/mobile/add-song-lyrics-to-your-ipod http://fusi0n.org/mobile/add-song-lyrics-to-your-ipod#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:45:32 +0000 pluc http://blog.fusi0n.org/?p=756 photoI'm a huge music enthusiast. An audiophile, even. However, and this is not so uncommon I hear, I much prefer the consistence of a song's lyrics than its melody. I love knowing what the singer says and feels, and you can only truly understand with a good understanding of how emotions translate into music and words. The music part is mostly instinctive, a bass line triggering a feeling in your guts, a guitar riff flipping your heart around, you can't really learn that. However, it's within everyone's grasp to understand what a song says, and I believe it's important. That's why I'm going to give you a tip to get the lyrics from every song you love onto your iPhone or iPod Touch. It's really easy, you don't have to do much.

First off, I'll assume you're using iTunes since you own an iPod or an iPhone. Apple made it so that synchronizing that baby on any other platform is a real bitch, and they've greatly succeeded. So open up your iTunes, select a song you like in your library and right-click it to "Get Info". If you look at the tabs near the top of the popup window, you'll see a "Lyrics" tab. Clicking on that should simply open the tab with a big empty text area. What we'll do here is we'll fill up that box with the song's lyrics.

Once that's done and the song is synced on your device, when it plays simply tap the album art (or its placeholder) to get to the shuffle/repeat/position screen. Lyrics should magically appear right below the section you're used to see.

Now, I hear you saying "Yeah but I'm not gonna do that for every damn song in my library!" and you would be right to say so. There are a number of programs that will automatically fetch song lyrics for you and add them to the song that's playing in iTunes, so that is what you'll want to do. Here are a few suggestions:

So from here on out all you have to do is start the software you chose, play your music in iTunes and watch your software fetch your lyrics! Obviously not every lyric is findable by those applications, but most will offer you a "Google Search" button that should take you right to the lyrics you're looking for. As a tip, what I do is the following: I have three big playlists that get synced on my iPhone automatically. When I go to bed, I set my laptop's volume to its lowest, fire up both softwares and let the playlist play! When I get up, I have all my lyrics and sync my iPhone. Ta-daa!


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]]> http://fusi0n.org/questions/headphones/feed 1 KazooKeylele: Greatest justification of Internet ever! http://fusi0n.org/internets/kazookeylele-greatest-justification-of-internet-ever http://fusi0n.org/internets/kazookeylele-greatest-justification-of-internet-ever#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:14:36 +0000 pluc http://blog.fusi0n.org/?p=78 This is so fucking great. Search no more. This is what the internet was invented for.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "Does this guy also offer advice on how to pick up women?"

Well yes, fortunately he does. Videos after the jump.


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