Memorex 8595
Do you own an mp3 player? I love these little marvels of technology, especially the Memorex 8595 mp3 player pictured at the left of this page. As physically small as they are, they pack a lot of features and power in such a tiny package! To date I have purchased about five players. They are incredibly convenient for carrying hours of audio around in your pocket, and using a decent pair of ear buds / phones, they produce excellent sound! My latest mp3 player purchase was the Memorex 8595 – 4GB – MP3 Player – Black in color. It has a 1.5 inch color OLED display with color and brightness controls. I frequently listen to “podcasts” that are anywhere from 30 minutes to one hour in length. One thing I found annoying on earlier mp3 players I owned, was the slow speed of the fast forward and rewind functions which crept along at about twice the play speed, way too slow. The Memorex 8595 however, appears to fast forward and rewind at roughly 10x’s the play speed, much better! It’s very tedious on older players to fast forward or rewind on 30 or 60 minute podcasts searching for something at only twice the play speed, so the Memorex 8595 excels for me in this department! Oh, and one HUGELY IMPORTANT FEATURE that I like about the Memorex 8595, is that if you pause the player and it times out and power saves / shuts itself off and or you turn it off with the off button, it keeps in memory the location of exactly where the audio file stopped playing so that when you turn the player back on, it begins playing from exactly where you paused the audio file, that is a feature well worth having and in past experience, not all players had this feature. The Memorex 8595 also comes with a nice “Sport Arm Strap” that you put the player in and strap it around your arm, I rarely use it but it’s a nice accessory especially if you exercise or jog while listening. This model also has a digital FM receiver built in, equalizer with presets and the rechargeable battery powers the unit for roughly 14 hours.
To sum up, I’ve been totally pleased with this player, can’t think of any negatives about the unit, the price was good (think I paid $59.00 for mine) the features were just what I needed and then some, and I totally liked the sleek design. Oh and I almost forgot it’s USB 2.0 so transfers of files move nicely. Well, time to go download some podcasts to take along at my daily grind, 
… thanks for reading! – Jeff
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Using a partial capo on your guitar can open up new musical horizons and entice your creative powers. We all experience those times when we maybe get bored with what we already know musically and hunger for something new and different than the norm. A partial capo can help that scenario by changing the tuning of your guitar, and it can change the tuning without altering the tuning keys. When you remove the partial capo, your instrument is returned to standard tuning or whatever tuning it had before you put the partial capo on.
Recently I was interested in purchasing a partial capo for my guitar to maybe foster some new creative music ideas. The product I found, and decided on was mentioned to me on a music forum and is called the Creative Tunings SpiderCapo. Also I was searching around on Google and happened upon an article about partial capos which brought more clarity about what a partial capo accomplishes versus using a standard capo that just basically bars all six strings of the guitar. Basically the article was saying that using a partial capo at the second fret on the bass side of the guitar, might be described as emulating DADGAD tuning. So, when you play the capoed (–not the fingered–) strings, then the notes are: EBEABE, the relationship is the same as DADGAD, but now it’s a full step higher. Some might think that this would be the same as tuning into DADGAD and capoing up two frets, but, it is not!
It’s important to realize that if you don’t re-tune some strings, you are still in standard tuning.
Let’s say you’re playing a barre chord above the capo…it’s the same as if the capo were not there. So then, any notes that you fret above the capo are then not effected by the capo, make sense? In other words, only notes that would have been open fifth, fourth, and third strings are going to be effected. Below is the Creative Tunings SpiderCapo
which works selectively across all six strings and is available at Musician’s Friend, this is an absolutely ingenious device!!! So to recap…you can capo one string at a time, or all six strings at a time, or, any combination of 1 to 6 strings you choose. This opens up a ton of possibilities for those who love using different tunings which can add greatly to putting your creative juices in overdrive. The Creative Tunings SpiderCapo is like the Swiss Army knife of partial and full capos all in one, adjustable tool! Happy playing, no matter how you look at it, the guitar is an amazing instrument whose sound can be altered a thousand ways! – Jeff
…See also the SpiderCapo official website here.
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Audio Streaming is so much easier to achieve now than it was 15 or 20 years ago. Flash audio can be created with little effort and uploaded to your web page and streamed using a simple flash player. There are free versions of flash players on the internet that you can download and use free of charge to stream your audio. You can also find paid versions of flash audio players such as the Wimpy Player. Many of these flash players automatically convert the mp3 audio file to flash streaming audio on the fly as it plays from your web page.
The Wimpy Player at the link shown above is one of the easiest to use, after uploading the software to your website server, you simply put your mp3’s into a folder called “audio” and insert the player html code on your web page and your mp3’s show up in the player, just click on a song and it begins streaming, easy as pie, check it out here’s the link again… Wimpy Player. Happy streaming. – J C McDonald …
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