Sound and Vision

[andrewducker]

I'd been thinking about AllOfMp3.com for a while - I mean, sure, it's completely unethical - but seeing as I'm just using it to download music that they won't let me have legally (i.e. Napster doesn't have it), I refuse to feel bad about it.  So when purelyskindeep mentioned it was pretty darn good, I decided to give it a go.  And it is - there's still lots of gaps, but I managed to find a couple of albums I wouldn't otherwise have.

I recommended G-Force to him, which will happily keep me hypnotised for whole track's at a time.  It synchronises well with the music and manages to have just the right rate of change through different animations - not long enough for you to get bored, not so short that you can't take in all the details.

In response he recommended R4 - which doesn't synchronise so well, but has some lovely 3D effects.

Both of them have standalone versions that will work with any sound source you like - and G-Force has a free version - plus a $10 paid version, which frankly is so cheap that it's hard to say no to.

Comments

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

what do you think of milkdrop (which now comes packaged with the later versions of winamp 5)? there's so many different preset combinations it comes up with, even after using it for months i see things i've never seen before that blow me away, plus is has an uncannly good beat detection system to boot.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Why do you think using allofmp3.com is unethical? It's legal, and it's a byproduct of the global market - in many ways I think the way that the pricing here isn't similar is an example of the unethical price fixing methods used by the record companies.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

If I'm going to be paying to acquire music, I either like to download the cds, make sure I like the artist, go to a concert of his, and then buy the disks *from him*, so that he actually gets it. Worked for the locrian. I very, very rarely buy cds from the high street- I hate the record companies with a passion, and will either spite the RIAA via udp and tcp packets; or, as I've just discovered, find the local library very, very good indeed :D.