What are the best tools to find songs that sound like each other?
The best tool by far for finding songs similar to another song is Last.fm. I've tried plenty of different methods including Pandora and YouTube. Last.fm wins. This is both because they use a much better similarity algorithm and also have more data to work with from users' listening habits.http://www.last.fmIf you use Spotify, you can get an instant playlist of tracks similar to another track.Search and select the track you want via Last.fm's search bar.Scroll down and click "Similar Tracks"Click the play icon on the first track. The whole playlist will immediately start playing in your Spotify desktop client.
Where can I find an old Techno song that featured Method Man?
That song is Bring the Pain and you can download it from morpheus.com for free.
What is the best way to seed my song if I am a no-name new artist?
Seeding a song isn't really the best way to go about promoting music. I don't know how much seeding needs to be done nowadays anyway. Recording equipment is inexpensive and the lowest quality is still better than anything the Beatles ever had. There are only two ways to make money as an amateur. One is playing to greater and greater numbers of people and the other is www.taxi dot com. In the first case you have fans in your home town and in your neighboring towns You come around to those places, hopefully not too often, and increase the number of towns you visit year after year. If you're playing 300 gigs a year you're maxed out promoting your music the best you can. When you can show a music executive that many receipts of CD sales and ticket sales from the door of your shows they will be interested in signing you and promoting your latest song. You won't need them mostly except for distribution and can decide to continue working for yourself if they don't offer you a lucrative contract. The other method is pitching songs to listings from music directors looking for music through a company like TAXI that screens the stuff first. The music director pays them to listen to the songs and to only send the ones that match what they asked for and are of high quality. You pay a few hundred a month and around five bucks to submit to each listing. A listing will say a music director is looking for a song for a certain kind of use in a certain style and if you're good enough, your tune gets forwarded and out of the final few they receive they pick yours to include in a movie, or to be background music on a tv show, or to be picked up by an upcoming artist. If you can't buy your own recording equipment for making CDs for sale during your shows or recording for pitching to listings then borrow a four track and a mic from a friend or rent them from a local recording studio. You could also check out how much it costs to book real studio time. It might not be as expensive as you think.
How do you decode song names on iTunes after transfer?
Recently I used this method to get my music off of my iPod since my computer crashed; I hooked my iPod up to the computer Went my iPod file Clicked on Tools Checked "Show Hidden Files" Selected all the hidden files, went to Properties and clicked "unhide" Created a new file Copied and pasted the new files Then I put them into my iTunes library. These are the directions I was given by a tech guy. After I put them into iTunes the songs weren't their song names, they were coded in random letters. Since I have over 1000 songs I don't have time to listen to them and name them all one at a time. Is there anything I can do via iTunes (by not downloading any programs) to decode them back to their original names? Thanks(:
What is the name of the song for Tara's red shoes solo from the tv show Dance Academy?
In the Last episode of Dance Academy Tara performs Victoria from the Red Shoes (which is not a real ballet (it is a movie not related to the TV show)) I am having trouble finding the song I used Shazam on my phone but it couldn't find it! so if you know of any other search methods or what this song is all ur efforts are much appreciated! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6c5Z_WIXc I put the song link below! Thanks <3
How can I find the name of the background music/song in a YouTube video?
You could use an app like Shazam https://www.shazam.com/Jan www.DoodleVideosMadeForYou.com
What was that song playing when method man was waking up redman in How High ?
du hast by rammstein
What is your method for discovering new music you enjoy without countlessly listening to hours of bad songs?
My hack is going to Google and typing “artists like X” for X being someone that I’m interested in having more music like in my playlist.From there, I’ll typically go to YouTube and enter those artists names in search, and take it from there. Sometimes, instant win. Sometimes, giant suck-fest.Interesting fun fact: if you do this with a few artists similar to the original X, YouTube starts figuring that out itself, and giving you pretty decent different recommendations.I also do listen to “hours of bad songs”. Well, not BAD, but maybe not great. I listen to a couple of listener sponsored radio stations, on one FM, a couple on the Internet. My son jokes about the one on FM - “hey Dad, that’s the station that never plays the same thing twice, right?” Yeah, pretty much. And from that, I discover all sorts of stuff that’s fodder for my “artists like X” sessions.And also n the “hours of bad songs” category, my son has a bunch of playlist he engages when on-line gaming. There are the “driving” lists, the “FPS” lists, the “strategy” lists, the “RPG” lists… some if it is heavily duplicated, heavily re-mixed, but there are nuggets. I keep Spotify on hot-standby and have caught some real gems in the cruft.Which I guess is just a way of saying “get out of your comfort zone” a little more, because there’s a whole world of incredible stuff out there waiting to be found.
How do music blogs find new music?
I think music discovery varies for each person and platform so I can only speak for myself. I run FUXWITHIT - Hip-Hop & Electronic Music Blog. We leverage a number of methods to find new music. SoundCloud is still the best source. We follow over 1000+ artists and spend a massive amount of time sifting through our feeds and finding the gems to post on our site.We also follow a ton of artists on Facebook and Twitter and always keep our eye out for new talent. Often artists you enjoy will tweet or talk about great undiscovered talent.We’ve also worked to build relationships with artists directly as well as their labels, PR teams, etc. We get sent a wealth of music via email and sift through it to find the best stuff.To answer your final question about posting exactly when songs come out. Artists or their teams will often send music in advance of the release date. This gives bloggers time to listen and digest it and then put together a write-up. This isn’t always the case though, sometimes you just have to jump on things as they come out. If you’ve been blogging for a while, writing a song review doesn’t take very long.