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Recommender Panel @ Pop Montreal Oct 6

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I’ll be on the music recommendation panel at Pop Montreal along with (so far) Paul Lamere, Doug Eck, and Sandy Pearlman next week, Saturday Oct 6. I know it may amaze you to consider, but I have a job that does not involve writing messages to solr - user nor staring at ARM disassembly in […]

iPhone input

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

This is a continuation of a previous iPhone audio post.
I saw that the Truphone guys did a live VoIP iPhone show at DEMO.. here’s some sketchy video. If this is true (I have no real reason to doubt it) it represents the first example of using the audio input on the phone. By the […]

SolrIndexer for Nutch

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

[This post might be inane if you don’t use Solr or Nutch, I am sorry, more iPhone and Music of the Future posts soon]
Back in early 07 Sami Siren posted an excellent Nutch->Solr Indexer. Anyway, it hasn’t been maintained much due to the forthcoming NUTCH-442. But for simplicity’s sake, I like the SolrIndexer, and here’s […]

Audio Playback, Recording and Processing on the iPhone Part 2

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

This is a continuation of a previous iPhone audio post.
I’ve had success playing back synthesized audio out the headphone jack and/or speakers of Apple’s iPhone without killing the sound daemon. I’ve also had modest success getting audio in to work but we’re not 100% there yet. Very close.
[I’m moving the rest of this post […]