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James Blunt Album - All The Lost Souls

Who have ever thinks that the first album of a retired captain of the Household Cavalry of the British Army become a hits?!Left the army on October 2002, James Hillier Blount or known as James Blunt, started to wrote a song.
His debut album then recorded in 2003 namely ‘Back to Bedlam’, contain 10 songs, including hits ‘You’re Beautiful’, and was released to the market in 2004. Unbelievable that in a year, the album had sold 14 million copies
worldwide!

After three years since his first phenomenal album,Blunt come back to the music scene with the second album ‘All The Lost Souls’. The album contain ten new songs about life and death, mostly taken from his expererience of life.

Dominated by piano and guitar,the album is full of deep emotional lyrics. There are some Collaborations with other musician in this album,like Mark Batson (Dr.Dre,the Dave MAtthews band), Jimmy Hogart,Steve McEwan and Max Martin, make this album has different color of music compare to his previous album. The packaging cover is very artistic, try to describing the lost soul.you gonna believe it or not, but this album was certified gold within its first week of release!curious to hear the album?
Track List :
01. 1973
02. One of The Brightest Stars
03. I’ll Take Everything
04. Same Mistake
05. Carry You Home
06. Give Me Some Love
07. I Really Want You
08. Shine On
09. Annie
10. I Can’t Hear The Music

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Audio Conversion and Editing Software

Audio Conversion and Editing Software
You might want to convert your wav files into an MP3. There is a lot of software on the Net that does this. Again, Wikipedia offers a list of both pay-for and free audio conversion software for PC, Mac and Linux.

Audio editing software
Most of the free rippers and encoders can not be used for editing your audio – they only convert an already edited file. Some of them also can’t import a sound from the external audio device - they can only convert audio that is on your in-built CD/DVD on your hard drive.

To overcome this, you can use editing software. They usually not free, but they are great all-in-one packages - enabling you to digitise, edit and convert your audio into the desirable format.

You might be able to download a trial version of Cool Edit (the old name for Audition) from http://www.syntrillium.com/ but there will generally be serious restrictions on the use of these trial versions (for example, you might not be able to save the file you’ve digitised and edited using the trial version).

There is a free editing software programme called Audacity http://www.audacity.com/ which will enable you to digitise your audio from external device and convert it into an MP3 or wav. It’s not as intuitive or easy to use as Cool Edit/Adobe Audition, but it comes with in-depth online help, so you can master it fairly quickly.

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Types of audio files

There are two most important parameters you will be thinking about when working with digital audio: sound quality and audio file size.
Sound quality will be your major concern if you want to broadcast your programme on FM. Incidentally, the size of an audio file influences your computer performance – big audio files take up a lot of hard disc space and use a lot of processor power when played back.
These two parameters are interdependent – the better the sound quality, the bigger the file size, which was a big challenge for those who needed to produce small audio files, but didn’t want to compromise the sound quality.
That is why people and companies tried to create digital formats that would maintain the quality of the original audio, while reducing its size. Which brings us to the most common audio formats you will come across: wav and MP3.

wav files
Wav files are proprietary Microsoft format and are probably the simplest of the common formats for storing audio samples. Unlike MP3 and other compressed formats, wavs store samples “in the raw” where no pre-processing is required other that formatting of the data. Therefore, because they store raw audio, their size can be many megabytes, and much bigger than MP3.
The quality of a wav file maintains the quality of the original. Which means that if an interview is recorded in the high sound quality, the wav file will be also high quality. This is why some radio stations use wav files for their FM broadcasts. Because of its size, wav files are not suitable for using on the Web. They are not recommended for use in archiving audio either, as they take up a lot of disk space. In order to reduce the size of a wav file, but to preserve the sound quality as much as possible, you can convert it into an MP3. In the majority of cases, we will save completed shows as MP3 to conserve space.

MP3s
MP3 is fast becoming the industry standard for listening to audio files on the Web. This is mainly because the audio files are highly compressed whilst retaining a high level of sound quality. For example a raw audio file of 36MB will become a high quality MP3 file of 3.6MB. You can squeeze round 10 hours of audio in MP3 format onto a CD (which usually only stores around one hour of non-compressed audio).
In making MP3s “perceptual” encoding is used, which means that only the sounds one can hear are saved, while the sounds a human ear won’t pick up are discarded. It makes the MP3s smaller but still very high quality.

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Saybia - Eyes On The Highway

Saybia, a Danish rockband with previous famous song entitled the Second you Sleep, now back again with new album“Eyes On The Highway”.

On this album, They try to give a new touch which is quite different to
their previous albums. Under EMI label Indonesia, the CD is containing 11 beautiful songs.

The band formed in Nyborg (1993),is motorized by Soren Huss, (vocal, acoustic guitar), Jeppe Langebek Knudsen (Bass), Sebastian Sandstrom (lead guitar), Jess Jensen (keyboards), Palle Sorensen (drums).

“ Eyes On The Highway” album packaging is quite nice, the base cover is black, contrast to the title which is printed in white colour. The album’s title is green and of course, the blue highway on its background.

I bet you will never regret to listen to them.Check out the track list!

1. On Her Behalf
2. Eyes On The Highway
3. Angel
4. Godspeed Into The Future
5. The Odds
6. Romeo
7. Pretender
8. Gypsy
9. A Way Out
10. A Walk In The Park
11. At The End Of Blue

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