Music Reviews

Pandora radio is the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. People in America can listen to Pandora music online, but they cant capture music from Pandora to their iPhone or iPod free. How can we download music from Pandora off the internet when it is broadcast? Streaming Audio Capture can help you.

Streaming Audio Capture is a professional program and can download music from Pandora easily with great speed. Streaming Audio Capture can not only download Pandora music but can download any social audio and music. It can be used to download social audio and music from MySpace, imeem, YouTube, Grooveshark, Napster, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, BBC Radio and so on.

How to download music from Pandora with Streaming Audio Capture?

A detailed User Guide will tell you how to download music from Pandora with Streaming Audio Capture.

Download and install Streaming Audio Capture

1. Download and install Streaming Audio Capture. Streaming Audio Capture provides FREE but FULL FUNCTION trial for 7 days.

2. Launch Streaming Audio Capture. And click Settings button to set output music format.
Before downloading Pandora music, you can set the output music format as MP3, WMA, WAV, AC3, M4A, AAC, OGG, APE, etc. The default format is MP3.

3. Go to Pandora radio website to listen to your favorite music. Streaming Audio Capture can download Pandora music to your hard disk with 1:1quality.

4. Click Record button to begin to download music off Pandora. Streaming Audio Capture can detect the sound signal and download music from Pandora to your iPhone or iPod in the background automatically.

Add ID3 tags to Pandora music

ID3 is a tagging format for MP3s. Streaming Audio Capture allows metadata to be added to the Pandora music, such as album name, song name, artist, original artist, genre, composer, releasing year, additional comment fields etc.

Streaming Audio Capture Applications

Record your internet radio station webcasts. Radio stations are required to log and archive all broadcasts under FCC regulations.

Save your streaming audio broadcasts. For example, if you are using BBC broadcast your band, Streaming Audio Capture can record and archive the broadcasts.

Convert your recordings in old or uncommon formats to wav or mp3. For example, if you have a voice recording in ds2 format you can convert this to mp3 using Streaming Audio Capture and the existing ds2 player.

Record your streaming audio conferences. For example, Streaming Audio Capture works perfectly to record conferences hosted with our Quorum Conference Server.

Record VoIP phone calls on softphones (eg. Skype or Express Talk). In a call center this is often required for legal or quality assurance reasons.

Among the number of reasons behind the popularity of Spanish history and civilization, the Spanish music is one big reason. There are many unique features of the music in Spain and this music is unique because it combines variety of cultures and civilizations. The reason behind this is the domination of Spain by different cultures of various countries. The Gypsies are known as the creators of Spanish music and this music is much inspired by the dances from Andalusia, Tartessos and Muslims of the region. Three common ingredients of the Spanish music are the song, Baile (dance) and guitar. It is indeed difficult to exactly assess the inspiration of Spanish music but no doubt, this music is very unique and very different from that of the other nations in Europe.

If we look into the development and history of the music in Spain, then it is very clear that this music is highly influenced by the Moors, Greeks and Romans. These three civilizations influenced the Spanish music during the early time period of its development. Mozarabic chant is the name of the music which is played in the churches of Spain. It was Spain where the polyphonic concept of music originated during the 16th century.

Spain is well known for the variety of music festivals held by the country during different times of the year. The interest of tourists has made the music a much highlighted part of the whole tourist activity. The pop and rock & roll styles of music are very famous in Spain and most of the Spanish music stars are female. Another popular form of music in Spain is called Ye Ye and it is influenced by the British and American beats. Among the popular singers of Spain are Enrique Iglesais, Miguel Bose and Rosa Lopez. There are many famous music groups as well and among them are falling Kids, Ketama, Pereza, Los Bravos and Greta.

Folk music in the different regions of Spain is also very popular. Cantabrian is a folk kind of music which is popular in the Basque Country and it is highlighted with stick dance and intricate arch. Rebec is also a folk music in which there are a number of instrument players involved beating drums and clarinet. Rondalla and Dulzaina are the forms of dance music which is popular in Castile. The famous rhythms in Spain include joya, circle dance and habas verdes.

Bengali people have a natural talent in music and singing. Can anyone disagree this? Look at the leading popular singers in the country today, you will find at least half of them having Bengali connections. Even in recent times, singers like Shreya Ghosal, Abhijit, Shan, Kumar Sanu and Raghab Chattopadhay are making us boasting upon Bengali music talent. It would not be wrong to comment that music has a great potential for being a prosperous career option for one whose passion is music.

If you want your child to learn music properly, you should find a qualified music teacher in Kolkata. Music schools are abundant in number in this city. Thus, finding one of the best music schools would not be a touch challenge for you. Three out of every five localities have one or more music schools. Interestingly, these music schools never fail to gather students of different age groups. Whether Rabindra Sangeet or Modern Bengali songs, these music schools train students on various types of music.

A music director shares the equal credit with a singer. For making a song popular, both of them put in similar efforts. Thus, professional career of a successful music director is no less glamorous in Kolkata. You can check out the local music schools as well while looking for a qualified music teacher in the city. If you want your child to undertake a course on music direction, you should try to find out a reputable Music Director in Kolkata instead of any popular singing teacher. An experienced music director may help your child learning A to Z of music direction.

While you look for an expert music director, you should find one who is engaged in the profession of training students. Music direction training can be quite interesting, if you enable to find a qualified and experienced teacher. Avoid choosing a teacher, who does not have training students before. The best way to find out the best person in this field is reference. As music learning is common in Kolkata, you would surely find a teacher by asking your friends and colleagues.

In case when the reference formula does not work well, you can go for an online search for this purpose. Allow the local search engines finding out the names of Music Teacher in Kolkata. The search engines would surely help you find a teacher successfully. Whether you appoint a teacher for Bengali singing or music direction, you should always focus on appointing a qualified person. Also, check whether the person is reputable and have many students. If you have contact with any popular singer or music director, you can ask him/her from where he got the lessons.

Practicing hard is important over everything else. If you encourage your child to practice hard, he/she would not have to struggle much for being successful in life. Expert guidance is necessary for training a student, but a student himself/herself needs to be quite enthusiastic and passionate for learning music.

Children with Attention Deficit Disorder often prefer to have background music playing when they are doing their school work or working. Parents are often worried that music will be yet another distraction that keeps these ADHD Kids from completing their work. Their fears may be unjustified. Music may actually be beneficial. There is not a medical consensus on the benefits of music and brain functions as of yet but new studies are pointing to A few specific brain benefits that may come to us from listening to music.

Remember the Mozart Effect? It was all the rage about 12 years ago. After my son was born in Georgia, we left the hospital with a Mozart CD. The nursing staff told us that the music would improve our baby’s brain function. The Governor of Georgia had determined that giving every infant born in Georgia a Mozart CD was a very inexpensive price to pay to make that Georgia infant a person with superior intelligence.

The Mozart Effect was a phenomena described in a book written by Don Campbell in 1997. The thesis of the book was that listening to Mozart would increase your IQ and your cognitive brain functioning. Much of the research in the book was based on work done by a French physician, Alfred Tomatis. Tomatis had treated over 10,000 patients using music and discovered that listening to Mozart improved spatial perception and language skills and decreased anxiety. Tomatis used Mozart music to treat these cognitive brain function problems but never claimed that the background music of Mozart would make you more intelligent. Campbells book sensationalized the benefits of listening to Mozart and Many mothers invested tons of money on ‘Baby Mozart’ CDs.

The Mozart Effect was suspect even before the book was published. Most psychiatrist and cognitive therapist considered the Mozart movement a fad and the research in the book came under serious scrutiny after the book was published. Almost immediately Some researchers set out to test the claims of the book. Most studies were performed and the vast majority of the studies were unable to show permanent changes in IQ or cognitive brain function improvements from listening to any music even Mozart’s. A few studies reported that any improvement in spatial perception, language skills or anxiety were transient and went away after the music stopped.

On a completely different note, it is interesting to me that we measure success of therapies such as behavioral therapy, music treatments and cognitive interventions by determining if the effects of the therapy persist after the treatment stops but we are happy to claim that drug treatments are a great success because they work while you are using them.

We would never say, “That medicine is simply worthless, you have to continue to take it to get continued benefits.” but if you undergo a cognitive training program and the effects do not persist six month after the program (even though there was considerable improvements while you were doing the program) then the interventions is considered a failure. It makes you appreciate how powerful therapies like diet, sleep hygiene programs and exercises are as their benefits are long lasting.

It seems that Mozart has been demonstrated to help people, animals and even plants while they are listening but the effects stop if you do not listen. Studies in France have confirmed that dairy cows that have Mozart piped into their stalls give more milk. In Japan, Mozart is played in breweries, near the yeast used to make sake, and the Japanese report that the quality of the sake is greatly improved by this music. In Some language courses offered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Mozart is played because studies have found that language learning is improved when Mozart is piped into the classroom.

Musicologist theorize that the tempo and rhythm of Mozart is beneficial because it follows a pattern that the brain utilizes through auditory processing mechanisms to improve neurotransmission which in turn can improve signs and sympoms such as anxiety, language and spatial perception deficits..

Most people with ADHD prefer to work and Many ADHD Kids prefer to do their school work with music playing in the background. A recent study performed at the University of Dayton, found that background Mozart improved the accuracy of language processing and the speed of spatial processing. Though it is Mozart’s Sonatas that are reported to give the best cognitive effects, this study used 10 different Mozart pieces that were of the same tempo and showed similar effects.

Making beats has never been easier; with a Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), anyone can learn how to use music making software to create dance music. It only requires a few things.

Desktop Computer or Laptop – Music files take up quite a bit of space therefore a hard drive with a minimum of 120 Gigabytes is recommended. For smooth operation, the system should have at least 1 Gig of RAM. A quality sound card is going to give you better playback and sound. A CD burner is necessary if you want to save music on disk. To add personalised vocals to tracks you need a microphone, a cheap one will do to start with. Finally, you must have speakers or a set of headphones to hear sounds.

Music Software or DAW – There are plenty of music making programs to choose from, and most come with help files and tutorials right in the software. Decide what software you will use and either install it from a CD or download it and follow the instructions for installation. Many software companies offer demos of their programs that are functional, some may have limitations, but most allow users the opportunity to try the program.

After installing music software, you will need to set up the sound card and mic to work with the program. This is usually very simple and the software normally guides users through the process.

You are now ready to learn how to use music making software to create dance music. Open the program, choose the instruments and sounds that will be used in the song, set the tempo (bpm), and begin adding tracks.

Drum Tracks – The basic set up for drums in dance music consist of a kick drum, snares, hi-hats and claps or snaps. Software that has a step sequencer makes adding notes easy, but learning to use the piano roll if available is more precise. Put the drum parts on separate tracks so effects and EQ settings will be independent.

Bass & Guitar – Most music has bass, on a new track create a bass line or riff. The guitar should be on its own track, guitars are used to create melodies from scales.

This is a foundation; build the dance music into a song by adding keys, strings, and other sounds. A common beat arrangement has an intro, verse, chorus (hook), bridge, and an out-ro. When using music making software to create dance music you can try different tempos, instruments, sounds and arrangements.