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A playback practice tool for musicians that allows slowing down, changing pitch, defining presets and loops on music files.

Plays AVI files using Microsoft's DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.

Find out how you can use Kinect Studio to capture data feeds, save them as .xed files and reuse them to test your Kinect-enabled apps.

What do you do when you’re a new dad and want to keep track of your baby at home? You use the Kinect sensor, C++, Windows Azure, and local and cloud-based components to get e-mailed photos upon request, wherever you are.

Simple signal processing implementation to microphone audio

Enterprises collect a wide variety of data in the form of text, audio, video, geospatial attributes, web, system and device logs, clickstreams, sensor readings, device outputs, link traversal logs from bots, crawlers, etc. In fact, about 90% of the data in the world has been created in the last few years. As hardware gets cheaper, more people have and use more devices and generate huge volumes of data which needs to be stored and analyzed to create value.

This article focuses on how to provide a scalable, video streaming service with little or no upfront investment in hardware or infrastructure. We walk through a step-by-step process using Windows Azure Media Services and a Web-based client. For consumers, a Facebook implementation of these technologies will be presented.

Some people ask me if there is a way to determine the height of a user standing in front of a Kinect device. The answer is defintely positive: We can detect the user's height regardless of her distance from the sensor! We only need some very basic Maths knowledge. Let's find out more...Download the

Before he tackles the new background audio capability in Windows Phone OS 7.1, Charles Petzold explores the ins and outs of the more standard way to play songs.

To use a music analogy, many installments of “The Baker’s Dozen” have been like “concept albums,” where most or all of the tips work towards a big picture. Then there are times where I present a series of random tips that are largely standalone and don’t form a pattern. In this article, I’m going to present 13 random tips for SQL Server and T-SQL programming.