Old Time Radio on your MP3 Player

For those of us that are fans of Old Time Radio (OTR), until recently there were very few options to listen to these classic programs. To listen to them, you would have to use a PC or laptop. This was not very portable or convenient. Personally, I like to listen to shows at night before I go to sleep, but my computer is nowhere near my bedroom.

With recent proliferation of CD and memory based MP3 players, a new option has emerged to listen to our favorite classical radio programs. These tiny devices can not only be used to listen to music, but can now be used to listen to Old Time Radio shows. As many of OTR shows are recorded at low bit rates and frequencies, you can typically load several hundred hours of shows onto a single CD. If you are using a memory based MP3 player, even a 64 mb player will hold several half-hour shows.

Of course, not everything is perfect with OTR shows. As I mentioned earlier, because of age of these programs (poor recording quality, mono audio, etc...) they are typically recorded at low bit rates and low frequencies. Many of newer MP3 players have no problem handling these formats, but not all. If you find you're player can't handle a OTR program, you will need to re-encode show at a higher frequency (e.g. 44 kHz) and bit rate. There are several freeware programs available that allow you do to this. If you have not yet purchased an MP3 player, ensure that it is capable of playing low bit rate (e.g. 32 kbps) and low frequency (e.g. 22 kHz) MP3 encoded files. My first CD MP3 player could only handle 44 kHz frequency encoded files, and I always found it cumbersome to have to re-encode files before being able to listen to them on my player.

Sananda Maitreya Finishes Recording “Angels & Vampires – Volume I”

This new album contains four Chapters with a total of seventeen songs. The music download service Sananda uses, Weedshare, makes it possible to spread these songs legally and gives filesharers even a share in sales up to 35%. You can "try before you buy": all songs are free to listen to. Milano, ITALY February 15, 2005 -- Multi-platinum artist Sananda Maitreya finishes recording last songs for his album "Angels & Vampires - Volume I”. After having announced "Angels & Vampires" as his next project in 2001, since May 2004 gradually songs have been released on www.sanandamaitreya.com website as soon as they were recorded. The album holds four Chapters and most recent one is Chapter 4: "The Return of Missing Lincolns": * If All I've Got * Right Brain Says * The Kind Of Girl * I'm Your Daddy * Reach Out Plus 2 instrumental songs will be offered as FREE downloads coming week. Maitreya about project: "Angels & Vampires relies quite heavily for its musical support from four basic food groups of live music: real drums, bass, guitar and keyboards and went with a more intimate and organic sound in order to reintroduce sonic subtones back into bodies energy matrix long weakened by compressed digital overload and its over emphasis. Sonic subtones help to bolster bodies electromagnetics and sense of overall wellbeing. Angels & Vampires also sought to create a sound base which would provide more emotional space in which songs might breathe and feel less constricted."