kargatron
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(Quote) It's a significant artistic effort, for sure. Over 20 hours of music and counting, like, he's speculating 200-odd submissions! It's hard to keep up!
Penguin emblem was courtesy of Yuko Zama, creator of the wonderful new-mus… -
Hal Willner died of COVID same day as Prine. Only 64.
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Not sure of best place to put this, but I'll try here:
Jon Abbey of Erstwhile Records, a leading presence in the experimental music community, has also curated a series of festivals over the years named AMPLIFY. With the ongoing situation… -
(Quote) This just came up in my iTunes shuffle after who knows how many years, but many, totally loved it. Had totally forgotten anything about it, but cool as shit.
It helps that I'm finally getting around to watching Twin Peak… -
Just an FYI. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to (Mac) Catalina, which includes the new Music app and changes how phones are synced (now through the Finder). For scrobbling, this means that the macbook last.fm scrobbler no longer scrobbl…
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Seems like Pi Recordings earns the poll's unofficial "label of the year" given its releases' standings.
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Seems like there's "room" for bandcamp, say, to offer a subscription option, where you subscribe with $N/mo and get M% (~10% or whatever scaling work) off anything there. It's possible the subscription benefits wouldn't average out over all labels, …
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I would like them to add another count: number of #1 nominations, since most of the critics do choose to go through deep mulling to label their favorite.
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only 15 albums achieved mention on 10% or more of ballotsWow! That is interesting.But the ranking itself reflects fairly narrow differences in rather small pluralities of preferences. Basically, if…I like the "solitary #1s" section, just to highlight those "killer" outliers. A fun angle, though also sorta inherently meaningless in terms of the poll's point of accessing consensus. I guess one could argue those choices are more likely free of ex…rostasi: "Biggest Day - 15,794 tracks" - I'm not sur…Yeah, that may describe lists like "large" (writer) entities like Pitchfork, but they're subject to hidden (un-explicated) editorial choices. Most "best" lists are single author. I love meta-lists like NPR's jazz poll, where their collation criteria…I meant personal judgment using personal criteria (that of course one often develops and shares to varying degrees with other individuals). Writers could attempt to ignore their judgment and gauge consensus in a "best-of" list, but they typically do…Gp:The “best” claim always strikes me as silly at bestAlthough everything you wrote was reasonable, I'm surprised you wrote all of that without recognizing the fundamental fact that "best <art>" is an incoheren…Hank Shteamer's always a great jazz writer - his 2019 "list" (more free-flowing discussion) is a good one: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-f…
In iTunes (Mojave), it appears that the Up Next queue has disappeared, and instead one can "Play Next" and queue immediately, or "Play Later" and queue at the end of the current displayed playlist.
This effectively means one cannot dynamica…
Posted this in the other bandcamp thread too, and it's a sister sale to the Erst one noted above:
Elsewhere Records is having a 30% sale through Oct 31. It's the contempora…Elsewhere Records is having a 30% sale through Oct 31. It's the contemporary "classical" offshoot so-to-speak of Erstwhile, run by Yuko Zama, Erstwhile and Gravity Wave designer and c…So I think I need to add a component that actually brings some things up again if I seem to like them. Such as added in the last XX and plays is more than XX.Yeah, in general I don't play favorites, unless I do - i.e. I do m…The playlist-combo setup allows one to allocate weights among the categories, by limiting counts per playlist (For example, insert 50 "favorites" but not more). The all-in-one makes it easier to see the criteria, but you don't get to weight the diff…Fwiw, that playlist's origins are a bit buried in history, but this is what it looks like. Basically, "recently" added, played quite recently but not TOO recently. :-P I guess it does try to make sure recentish music gets a higher play frequency tha…A quick response to Gp's question about other's protocols. Here's a snapshot of two different approaches I use for my "master shuffle"-type playlists. The general intent is to combine new stuff with older stuff, usually weighted by playcounts and la…I'm gonna be a party pooper and gripe about a "last.fm tool" that doesn't add anything not easily seen in one's last.fm profile page. :-PI just canceled before my annual re-up after 13 years. With such a slow death there are no associated wistful pangs.One of the great experimental music labels, Erstwhile Records - nice sale on back catalog CDs:
in On Sale Comment by kargatron June 2019More saying that the time spent on those 29 discs is unavailable to listen to another set of 29 discs, and that we're all going to die at some point with zero listening hours left. I'm no longer young enough to ignore that fact, unfortunately!
…Aren't you guys old enough that the opportunity cost of listening to 29 discs of Tartini is... a bit high? :-P
(Quote) I'll be devastated if I lose smart playlists and concomitant metadata, but I don't think it's obvious they'll drop those. As you note, the iOS Music app already deals with that metadata and afaik handles dynamic smart playlists.