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Greg, there are quite a few decent recommendation threads for jazz at emu - if you want pointers to them, yell.
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Gp. I seriously recommend changing your mindset about streaming - look at it primarily as a useful full-sampling service (and not as a "cloud library" or worse, "music rental"). Is that really worth $0 to you? If not, how much? I definitely get 1…
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Well, I've never heard Thor reciting Naked Lunch despite how much fun it is to say aloud stuff like: (Quote)
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cafreema, curbing music choices at 3 months old? Why, exactly? That's very very pre-verbal, I'm not sure what concerns you have in mind. I read my son random NAKED LUNCH excerpts aloud when he was a baby (probably up to a year or so), it's such a…
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I agree that kids music is probably fairly optimal for developing their basic musical ear - simple, clear melodies and harmonic relationships. I'm just unwilling to put up with it by and large (TMBG an exception), so they suffer in that sense. But…
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I wonder if parents that buy childrens music for their kids just care about their kids more, or are less selfish than I. My kids hear nothing but my music collection, and a lot of it.
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(Quote) Interesting. I still find the endowment effect has impact for me - I listen more seriously and more often to something I purchased, rather than just having free access to a record from a pool of many thousands also accessible. But there…
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I use $5/month napster for general purposes. Good deal, though napster's software and streaming is a bit flaky. Still, cheap, and decent coverage. I haven't tried Guvera streaming, but man, I hate their interface.
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The Black Keys - Brothers (2010)
Macy Gray - The Sellout (2010)
Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (2010)
Stars - Daytrotter Studio 12/27/2010 (2010)
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The only way iTunes would fail to easily serve as a source for purchase dates is if you don't add it to your library when you purchase it. Is that your issue, Daniel? Why wouldn't you add it to your lib when you buy it?
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That's an utterly bizarre policy. Why create the extra complication, and additional bad will it would inevitably produce? Yeesh. They seriously are run by a bunch of yahoos there, I think.
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Thanks for the Oval pointer, GP, I was a big fan, but thought he'd simply disappeared from music after Ovalcommers. Glad to check this new stuff out.
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(Quote) Point taken, my view of the marketplace is a bit cloistered in that historical context. Internet usage was ~44% in 2000 in the US.
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I overstated when I referred to "big factor in music" - I meant a more specific "big factor in street prices". I don't think the perfectly mundane, legal, and accessible ways "we" bought music at value-prices over the years qualifies as "beating th…
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I think relatively flat prices reflect not collusion but the dominance of fixed labor costs plus multi-tiered distributions chains. Given the many cheap options that have existed in the digital domain, and the general movement upwards with time, I …
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(Quote) I thought I explained why - based on personal experience spending many thousands of dollars over the years on a large variety of product, and comparing to unit prices in the past, it seems to me collusion didn't artificially inflate price…
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Jonah, "what the market price of an MP3 should be": please detail how you would determine that. The general fact is that the market tells people the price, not the other way around, because there is no "should" price in a market.
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mommio, checked out Firefly yet? Great series, very rewatchable. Whedon's an awesome writer, and Fillion's charisma knows no bounds (he raises Castle's game several notches above the writing, but he and Whedon are a perfect match). …
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More the sucker, you, having left them with 8 cents of pure unadulterated profit! That's a brilliant scheme, they could give away lots of free months and pocket up to $0.48 per giveaway! The fastest way to riches is the New Math.
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I've not been good about following up on tracks from these comps that caught my ear, but finally sought out one that did: Dave Seidel's "Penumbral", from the first …
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thom's right - that old stuff is mostly there, just not displayed (the 'Search' link is at the top right of the main board display page). If only they would just remove the forced-expiration part of that code (there's a good chance it's a one-line …
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(Quote) Still, it raises the question of what she thinks of the music you list (and listen to "in public", I assume). Does she consider it mainstream? Is she apathetic, or does she grimace?
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(Quote) Do you have examples in mind? I am unaware of examples of thread deletions, and doubt they've touched code parameters in a long time. Are you saying that searches for the threads you have in mind return nothing? Certainly I can search …
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All I can easily report is my iTunes lib stats, added in 2010:
3833 tracks
550 artists
573 albums
~35 GB
About 36% jazz, 26% popular, 11% classical, 11% experimental, and 16% a mix of other stuff.
Hilarious - your daughter's list contains only two artists I've ever even heard of (MIA and Fever Ray), and both of those are remixes by an unfamiliar dj. Funny.Genre/tag/artist streaming can be a useful thing if you want "radio", but pandora can serve the same purpose. If you don't want to scrobble, then I'd say never mind, since most benefits come from that angle. I don't follow what level of paranoia w…I think that I was charged for grabbing that Sunny Day album from emusic. Anyone else see that problem?Thanks for that Tomas Phillips pointer, bn, I really liked Intermission/six feuilles.Ha, Doofy, emusic customer service is sooo lame. Here's a response to a response I sent on Nov 27 - perhaps you can imagine what it's in response to: (Quote)Daniel, fix your song url tags!