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Sex and the music

October 21st 2008

Sex and the City, my current guilty secret, turns out to have a brilliant soundtrack in the last two series.  Series six is worth a look for the french hip hop alone.  Sad, but true. Possibly Related Posts: Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will [...]

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Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet

September 10th 2008

I’m messed about with ssh tunnels (works but is a ball ache) and then lastnight I had a throught – and this morning I’m sitting in work listening to music via iTunes streaming from home. Turn on iTune sharing Add password to your iTunes share Log into your router Port forward both traffic types on [...]

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Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down

January 29th 2008

Here’s one of those crazy facts, which makes perfect sense to ecomonist, and mystifies the rest of us. EMI pays £25m a year to scrap unsold CDs, yes £25 million.  They pay to make them, and then they pay to scrap them.  If ever there was a motivator to move to a digital distrobution method, [...]

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Music V’s the Office

January 23rd 2008

Nothing beats sitting in a huge open plan office, looking at a bunch of cival servats, with Pendulum’s Slam thumping into you ears on the headphones, content nobody else can hear it.  The juxtaposition is brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if [...]

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Using search to pick songs

January 15th 2008

MostlyI play whole albums.  I rarely can keep playlists up to date.  Very rarely do I have my music on random because it’s just too mixed to not sound terrible.  At the moment im using the seach function of Windows Media Player to find tracks.  All todays music has “dog” in it somewhere. Dogmonaunt 2000.  [...]

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Jealous? Sort of…

January 2nd 2008

At the weekend I met a lady who had… a)Seen The Fall live b)Met John Peel c)Snogged Mark E.Smith Well, two out of three isn’t a bad score on the JealousOmiter.  I imagine snogging Mark E Smith to be something like, actually I haven’t the words.  There must be a lot of siliva and  buck [...]

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The Smiths speak the truth!

December 12th 2007

Anoter musical moment just highlighted itself.  As I work from home on some mind numing dull crap (yes – thank you Microsoft Sharepoint – you are broken my heart and soul), Frankly Mr Shankly by The Smiths came on Last.fm (station based on Pavement).  It’s all about how you have to quit you solid and [...]

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Last.fm and Pandora

December 6th 2007

I’m a big fan of last.fm, party because I’m a data whore (it must be useful for something! Must keep all of it!) , and mostly because I can use it to draw pretty pictures.  Last.fm will recommend other music to you based on the theorythat if you like Song X, and A.N.Other (and crowd) [...]

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Looking at your music collection is interesting

October 23rd 2007

Being away from my beloved ibook and synology cube for a few weeks, I have imported my entire music collecdtion into windows media player on a portal harddrive. I’d like a nice way to visualise the information about how many tracks by each artist I have. WMP has one interesting feature (and many many wank [...]

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Radiohead

October 5th 2007

Aways visionaries in music (Kid A – idiocy that sounds perfect), Radiohead have released (or rahter are releasing – it’s on pre-order at the moment) their whole next album and you can pay what you like for the download. Lots of people have lots to say, and I find the idea that they are behind [...]

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Sony BMG continue to think like dinosaurs

October 5th 2007

It would appear the music industry is just not thinking, listening or doing anything more than bitching a sueing to try and maintain a business model thats just got working anymore. They’re even contradicting themselves now, for example check out these gems, only lines apart. “when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we [...]

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DRM free mp3s from Amazon

September 26th 2007

With their existing customer base, who are used to using their payment system and front end, I can’t imagine Amazon can go wring with serving up DRM free mp3s which you can then use on any device (and backup etc etc). I wonder who’s tunes they are serving up, and what the payback for artists [...]

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Developing a storage strategy

September 14th 2007

I own a lot of things digitally, and have a highly mobile lifestyle. My CD collection must be 500+, my DVD collection pushing a 100, and I average traveling 300 miles at either end of the week (give or take a hundred depending on where I am). I can pick up a handful of Cd’s [...]

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RIAA backs foolish plan. Surprise.

September 12th 2007

Just when I thought the music industry was getting the hang of the new economic models that are around, they come up with a totally moronic idea. Did they thing they were being innovative? Maybe. Did they think this would kill downloading? Possibly (though I imagine even the painfully optimistic realized this was unlikely). Did [...]

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Rick Rubin interview

September 4th 2007

I’m waiting for some scripts to finish running, and they were taking their time, which has given me the time to read the whole of this brilliant article about Rick Rubin. If you don’t know who he is, he’s the founder of Def jam records, and it turns out, the producer (and guru like muse) [...]

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Storing bbc listen again stuff

July 21st 2007

I love the BBC’s listen again service, but since work banned streaming media, I’ve made no use of it because I have a radio in my house (numerous actually), a radio in my car, and now the onlyplace I am without BBC content is work. I do podcast several things that are available, but it [...]

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DRM free mp3 store?

July 21st 2007

I like the look of bleep.com, serving up mp3 goodness at about 6 quid an album from lots of good labels like warp and XL. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools [...]

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Why is everything so slow?

July 20th 2007

This is really beginning to bug me. I have a large mp3collection, mostly because I spent 2 weeks ripping my cd collection to mp3 in case of theft and fire, and so I can take it on the road with me when working away from home. I’ve been used iTunes to try and mange it, [...]

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Another song to make you cry

June 26th 2007

Robert Wyatt singing “shipbuilding” written by elvis costello. Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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Moby loves animals the wrong way?

June 12th 2007

I think the Eminem fans might have been allowed to edit the wikipedia moby page, because at the moment, half way down it says… “He also released a porno DVD, called Player. Here he displayed his belief in beastialty.” Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin [...]

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

June 1st 2007

Who wants to go to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival next year? Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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CIllit BANG!

May 13th 2007

What more could you need than a Cillit Bang! Hardcore Remix? Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable

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Visulising last.fm data

May 8th 2007

I lvoe the last.fm service, even if I did just have to reset my user because it was full of chode, but it’s visualisions of data are poor. This page about visulising last.fm data is super cool however. I love the interactive graphs! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]

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Batter your mp3 collection into shape

May 3rd 2007

I have a stack load of mp3s. About 60Gb worth, with all the nasties you expect – repeats, missing metadata, etc,etc. I’m slowing battering them into shape, but I have resorted to using iTunes. Damn it. However, smart playlists are genius! If you don’t beleive me, just have a browse over this article about creating [...]

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Wouldn’t you know it

April 25th 2007

Who would have throught that Mojave 3, were actually Slowdive in disguise! Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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beatboxing with a flute

March 29th 2007

Yes, and it’s the Inspector Gadget theme tune too, with a bit of Bevely Hills Cop about it.  Oh yes. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Forget the deli, find a German Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac The strange [...]

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