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This dude is exactly right

Published on October 9, 2007 in Random and Tunes. 1 Comment

And I hope he makes a lot of money for Yahoo!, too. Take a look at this article. Basically, he’s saying “no” to any more DRM nonsense from the stupid music unions, which can only mean good things for those of us who like music and the gadgets that play it.

He also has some thoughts about context. A lot of people listen to music and don’t really think about what’s behind it, and that’s fine. But there are a lot of us who want more; we might want to know why Bono thinks it’s stupid to play “One” at a wedding. Guys may not know that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were all former members of other decent bands: the Byrds, the Hollies, Buffalo Springfield. And it’s even more important to have a local context; my wife and I played “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” at our wedding; if someone is listening to that track, and they’re a friend on Last.fm, they might be amused to see that context.

So there’s the content, and the context, and the next gen of music on the web will hopefully give us more of both.

So What Have You Listened To Today?

Published on July 26, 2007 in Tunes. 0 Comments

Me? Well… in the last hour or so I’ve listened to the following:

Sly & The Family Stone – Luv N’ Haight
311 – Come Original
The Soggy Bottom Boys – In The Jailhouse Now
Dance Hall Crashers – Street Sweeper
Kidneythieves – Serene Dream
Dance Hall Crashers – Truth Hurts
Incubus – Rogues
The Decemberists – The Island
Cream – Sitting on Top of the World
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Who the Cap Fit
Pearl Jam – Habit
The Hives – Walk Idiot Walk

How do I know this? Because of a nifty new web site that Zarch introduced me to last week. Last.fm is sortuv a music community site which helps you to find new tunes, enjoy music you love and find folks that enjoy the same rockin’ riffs as you. They’ve personally dubbed themselves “The Social Music Revolution” and after using it a week, I think the tagline fits.

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Mad Editing Skillz

Published on June 15, 2007 in Geek Fun, Random and Tunes. 1 Comment

This is pretty clever:

iPod Nano to be swapped for Creative Zen Vision:M

Published on March 15, 2006 in Gadgets, iPods Suck, mp3 and Tunes. 5 Comments

Well, I’ve had my little iPod for a few months now. So naturally, I’m sick of it and I want a new mp3 player. The nano is great player, taken by itself; throw in iTunes, however, and it really causes me headaches. For one thing, all my media is stored on a Windows Media Center 2005 PC, so synchronizing involved making a second music library just for the iPod so iTunes wouldn’t frag my current library. Additionally, the iTunes interface really blows compared to WMP10, in my humble opinion. It’s a pain to cusomtize tags, make playlists, and organize music. It’s the Playskool effect – Apple tries to make things too easy by taking away control.

Anyway, check back over the next week or so for a report on the new Zen Vision:M, and we’ll see if I like it any better than I liked my last Zen.

Impromptu Top 10 list

Published on October 28, 2005 in Tunes. 0 Comments

So I got listening to some music tonight, and thought I’d make a quick top ten of my favorite tracks. In no particular order:

Let It Be – The Beatles
Please Let That Be You – The Rentals
Ultraviolet – U2
Sometime Ago/La Fiesta – Chick Corea
Checkered Past – John Scofield
The Obvious Child – Paul Simon
The State That I Am In – Belle and Sebastian
Between Us – Harry Connick, Jr.
Vienna – Billy Joel
Sugar Magnolia – The Grateful Dead

Anyhoo, just felt the urge to make a quick top tracks list. I’ll dupe this in the forum for comments.

Apple attacks the software for my new Zen Vision!

Published on September 30, 2005 in Gripes, iPods Suck, Software and Tunes. 0 Comments

Here’s hoping this is just a fluke, and not some plot by the Mother Brain at Apple to make us all wear stupid white headphones and blink in unison, but Quicktime fragged the software for my new Zen Vision. I was happily unpacking components and slipped the CD with drivers and software into my drive. To my bewilderment, it kept giving me the "This program had an error and had to close" message. Well, I followed the link to more info, and this is the page Microsoft popped up:

After I uninstalled Quicktime, the install of the Creative software went without a hitch. I’d like to believe there’s nothing to this, but in a world of white plastic and hip twenty-somethings rocking out in public to the top 40 on their iPods, nothing is certain anymore.

Anybody else have this problem? Fire an email off to me.