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I spend a huge chunk of my spare time collecting music. Much of that time I spend hunting for rarities, oddities, and OOP material on the Soulseek network, but I'm also addicted to massively customizing foobar2000 as my music manager and player of choice.
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- MusicBrainz -- An open content music database. The ultimate music metadata warehouse.
- Discogs -- RYM's chief rival and a vast and thorough database in its own right.
- Last.fm -- Great resource for tracking your listening habits (see: Audioscrobbler) as well as socializing.
- allmusic (aka All Music Guide) -- A good source for pro reviews and ratings.
- The Covers Project -- A database dedicated to the art of the cover song. Surprisingly vast.
- Encyclopaedia Mettalum -- Arguably the net's best resource for metal discographies and reviews.
- JaME World -- A quality database for Japanese music, i.e. j-rock, j-pop, j-metal, etc.
- MusicMoz -- An open directory of all things music.
- freeDB -- A decent metadata database for CDs. (Like Gracenote without all the licensing/copyright drama.)
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- foobar2000 -- An extremely customizable audio player and quite possibly the best ever created. Endlessly configurable, due in no small part to a brilliant plugin library.
- MusicBrainz Picard -- A superb MP3 tagging app that draws from MusicBrainz's huge metadatabase. Also known for its use of audio fingerprinting technology.
- Soulseek -- A legendary music sharing app and one of the only ones still standing.
- Exact Audio Copy -- Arguably the best CD ripper or "audiograbber" out there. Highly reliable and powerful.
- Audacity -- A free, easy-to-use multi-track audio editor. If you like to play with your music this is a handy tool.
- Mp3tag -- Another MP3 tagging app that makes a great pair with Picard due to its unique and powerful features.
- iZotope Ozone -- For those of you who love to mess with your player's equalizer, try what the pros use for the ultimate in sound shaping.
- LAME -- The premier MP3 codec. Tastes great with Exact Audio Copy.
- FLAC -- Free Lossless Audio Codec; arguably the best means of losslessly ripping audio.
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- Bandcamp -- My go-to site for previewing artists/albums and researching release dates, track listings, etc.
- Soundcloud -- Great for getting samples of what artists are currently up to.
- Spotify -- The Pandora killer. Have complete control over your stream with minimal ads.
- Pandora -- The original streamer and still a nice way to create your own personalized radio stations.
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User #354,246
Joined 2011-01-22T07:07:46Z
I haven't seen Bladerunner but I heard both the movie and the Soundtrack is great so I will listen to it as soon as I can
As for the Flaming lips, I'll be sure to take my time with it definitely and yeah that one before The Soft Bulletin is so fucking long.
Thanks for that Euro Psych Prog album suggestion. I loved the track you linked me. I've been building up my backlog so I have so much to listen to so if you have more suggestions that would be swell
Glad you liked the Evil Engineer! :)