“Today the Here Lies Love package comes out – multiple formats and lots of stuff to absorb. There are download versions and CDs, and the top of the line is a 120-page book with 2 CDs and a DVD of 6 videos. That can be ordered on line as well. In case you don’t know about this project, it’s a series of 22 very danceable songs about Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, and Estrella Cumpas, the woman who raised her. The material was written by myself (David Byrne) and Fatboy Slim, and is sung by 20, count ‘em, 20, amazing singers. A theater piece for your ears.”

If you want to listen to a bit of the album first you can do so on Amazon MP3.

To use it, you’ll need to install Simplify Media on your Windows or Mac desktop. Then, using a jailbroken iPhone, install the Simplify Media app for the iPhone from Installer.app. You’re limited to using Simplify Media to a Wi-Fi connection, and it’s a bit buggy in the beta version, but as you can see from the video, it’s got tons of potential.

Below is a video of this application doing what it does best:

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via [Life Hacker]

Muxtape, an online mix tape/playlist application that lets you share a mixtape with the internet, just launched. (Here’s mine.) Design as simple and effective as this continue to define the gold standard for next-generation web applications because they focus less on “what everyone else is doing” and more on giving the user the tools to “do what he/she wants.”

In terms of:

1. Finding a problem,
2. Providing the tools to solve that singular problem, and
3. Making it really fun in the process,

Muxtape hits it out of the park.

Others have speculated that the site will encounter copyright difficulties and be forced to shut down, but here’s hoping that won’t happen.

With iTunes 7, switching between different music libraries became much, much easier:

• Hold down Option (or Alt in Windows) while launching iTunes.
• Select or Create your desired iTunes libraries from the dialog box.
• You can choose from either your local hard drive, an external device, or even a network drive.

Remember that each time you launch iTunes it will automatically select the library that was last open. If you choose to use a network drive and you are not on that network at the time you will need to hold down the Option (Alt in Windows) key when opening you iTunes library to select a different library at that time.

One Mac OS X Hints user developed a script to switch between two aliased drives to accomplish this task. Even better solutions are presented in the thread below.