Music Smasher: Streaming Music API Mashup
Music Smasher is a smash up of popular music streaming service APIs. I developed it to simplify the task of searching across Spotify, Rdio, Grooveshark, and other catalogs to find out who has the music you love, giving you more information for choosing a streaming service. Music Smasher is currently hosted at mattmontag.com/smasher. Note that [...]
Weird Spotify Compression Artifacts
Spotify Artifacts Showcase I love Spotify. But I've noticed some weird artifacts on a few albums. It sounds like a fluttery warble noise in the midrange. It's most noticeable during big string or choir sections with broad spectral content. The problem seems limited to certain albums. The worst album I've come across is this Pascal [...]
Exact MP3 Recompression
Let's say you have a library for decoding MP3* streams, and your library exposes some API methods that provide access to the resulting uncompressed PCM audio stream. It's meant to hide the original MP3 data, so people can't save it to disk and rip you off. Is it possible to "reverse engineer" the PCM data [...]