kargatron
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Some comment requests:
thom: Jason Ajemian & the HighLife "Let Me Get that Digital" I know Ajemian from the free jazz trio Triage, but this sounds like a different bag.
Doofy: Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen -
When browsing last.fm to see what you had in your lib, Craig, I found there was no easy way to get the info I wanted. I had to go into my lib, click on a top artist's plays, switch the artist name in the url, then switch the username, to see what m…
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I'm hoping they'll pull the lala trick of virtual matching of one's library. That means "instant" partial personal library cloud, at a cost of just a streaming service.
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(Quote) Ah, another wonderful album from Antony. I don't have his debut yet, but have the following three, all of which I like a lot. His music is a pretty distinct kind of soaring, textural, fervent art pop. Lyrically the songs are usually si…
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Jonah, as I wrote at emu, I don't think one should look at streaming as a substitute for purchase, but supplement. Just in terms of album "trials" to judge purchase potential, I think you'd justify the $5/mo using a streaming service. My brain kee…
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Jonah, I think you should seriously consider spending $5/mo of your cancel-savings towards a streaming service like Rdio. You are so diligent about seeking out full-album streaming, I think you'd find considerably justifiable value in such a subscr…
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Listening to First Narrows on Rdio during dinner, Gp. Nice stuff.
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But I'm guessing your last.fm id is not 'greg', Greg.
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amclark2, are we to receive attribution of the posted art at some point?
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Booster packs are still available at 23% off. I think it's a decent deal, and buying one occasionally gives plenty of "calculation cushion".
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Greg, don't forget to check out the Darcy James Argue pointer above, and here's a large ensemble recording I really love:
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Greg, I'm curious - you've posted loads of jazz in the WAYLT threads since you posted this thread - how much of it was acquired since then vs stuff you already had? For someone who kind of positioned themselves as a newbie at the time, you certainl…
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Stream Mother Mother's new album in full:
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(Quote) Do you have reason to prefer this explanation over the dumb, automatic ripping of releases with hidden tracks separated with silence? I think their (known, established) lack of internal quality control is more than sufficient to explain …
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Gp, that's the 2nd-to-last track, it appears. Sometimes artists doofily add a "hidden track" via tacking a bunch of silence at the end of the previous track, and the rip knows no difference. Just another reason to hate "hidden tracks", a stupid fu…
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Yay, my favorite pop discovery of the last few years has a new album out:
Mother Mother - Eurekain New & Notable releases Comment by kargatron March 2011
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I think such verification is unworkable, if you want to offer a useful, desired service, so I'm not worried about it. I think some generic averaged license fees behind the scenes will instead end up what happens.
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I wish I knew - all I can say is that I'm very anal about these things, and this last event was my noticing "hey, I heard this yesterday; hey, I heard that 2 days ago", and it continued, with many WTFs. To miss those repeatedly over a long p…
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I think I've seen evidence that frankiepop and jazzmine are the same person - I once saw jazzmine say "I" in a thread of insulting posts from frankiepop, as if he mistakenly was logged into the jazzmine account but didn't notice. Dunno if that's co…
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Is this worry about GoT paranoia, or does HBO's track record with series not mean much for you worriers?
Katrina, it's a well-known contemporary fantasy series light on the magic, heavy on the politics, and where no character is o… -
Yeah, looking forward to Game of Thrones. Mildly optimistic, because HBO usually meets a fair standard of quality in their shows. Dinklage as Tyrion should rock. I haven't looked - has Martin chimed in on the series at all? Looking - I se…
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Oh, sure, individuals vary widely - I meant it in the broad social/industry sense. From the 1920-1950, for example, exactly zero people listened to radio as a way of "hearing trailers for the main (album) event".
in Bon Jovi Vs Steve Jobs Comment by kargatron March 2011
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I find it useful to remember that radio is as old as popular music (not at all coincidentally), and "shuffle" in that sense has been the default for the entire lifetime of popular music. "Albums" came later, and could, in some (not all of course) s…
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(Quote) See, that's the puzzling part - I chiefly use such playlists on my ipod, have for years, and all of a sudden I noticed it obviously broken within the last two weeks. It's not impossible, but would strike me as exceedingly odd that I neve…
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Doofy, all my playlists *play* fine - my question is specifically about live-updating. ("Screwed" in my parlance means I can't rely on those playlists to not repeat tracks I've heard.)
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Gp, as Doofy says, you probably want a dumb core playlist. But you can make that playlist, rate all '5 stars' or grouping='essential' (whatever mechanism you like to mark essential stuff) - then use a smart playlist on the iTunes side to monitor th…
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Yes, the 'select by album' option picks alphabetically. If you want to always listen to full albums, I don't think smart playlists would be very useful. If you enjoy partial album plays, one can always album-shuffle a smart playlist that contains …
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(Quote) But note that for a smart playlist that references other playlists to work, the ipod must have the referenced playlist(s). So a smart playlist that subsets another playlist that's too big to fit on the ipod, will not stay "smart".
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Recently, I've noticed the extremely irksome bug on my nano 2g that smart playlists that reference other playlists are not live updating. Playlists that reference just metadata (last played, or rating, whatever) work, but playlists that reference o…
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Nice pointer on Lugerner, thx. Jonah (and others), you might like the trumpeter Darren Johnston's The Edge of the Forest on C…