kargatron
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That author excessively downplays the possibility of a nasty bug, imo, and I don't think clearly provides the scenario under which the original complainant purportedly deleted all of their original media. They do make the case that iCloud music mana…
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That is a horrific story, but I think it's worth noting one can separate "Apple Music" from "iCloud Music Library" - you can turn off the latter and not suffer the risk of what happened with that author. (Though, granted, that behavior is unconscion…
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To me, clearly streaming offers a much better way than samplers to sample the current zeitgeist on-demand, at a pretty low cost ($10/mo). Plus you get a much much wider catalog to sample from. Serious listeners should view streaming as a valuable su…
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Even with just over 50k tracks, I long ago stopped grabbing samplers - the handling cost alone outweighs the benefit with finite listening time. (Good compilations are another matter, though uncommon.)
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Jonah's sneering faux-ignorance of character names continues to amuse!
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Hell of a shock to me. Been a legit "fan" since SOTT in 1987. Prince's birthday was one week after mine - in grad school in the early 90s, I used to throw annual "Prince & Vince" parties on the weekend between, using a 6-hr Prince mixtape I made…
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A good Art Blakey sampler for cheap.
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When you say "manual syncing", you mean manually populating a synced playlist, right? Also, I use "checked only" criteria in most of my playlists, and uncheck tracks I never want synced, like "spoken introductions" (or unpalatable tracks I want to k…
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For odd snippets sneaking into one's shuffle, this is a good source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Conet_Project/
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For me, this is the crucial point (and, since it's a cognitive bias, I think one that applies to many people). It's called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowmen…
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Try out Illinois Jacquet with Wild Bill Davis on organ. Not all the tracks on the album are laid back, but "Blues for New Orleans" surely qualifies (starts at 30:25 or so):
in Lonnie and maybe others, laid back and slowed down...? Comment by kargatron March 2016 -
Wow, thx for that, bn!
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(Quote) That's my big question. I'm only an emusic subscriber because of the prices. 7digital has standard street prices for the most part - if for some reason they don't realize the "subscriber discount" model aspect, then that will be the e…
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Seems to me Gp would enjoy Beach House pretty easily. And I kinda think many people might unexpectedly enjoy Courtney Barnett.
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Huh, is Mosaic deliberately hiding the full contents of that set? I can't find any link on the page the notes all the sessions/albums included. I find that a little bizarre.
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Although Christmas jazz dominates my holiday music collection, my favorite holiday rec I ever got was for this great record of English folk carols: in Christmas Music (or Holiday music if you insist on PC) Comment by kargatron December 2015
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Heh, thx, Doofy, me neither, so why not?
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Doofy, I feel bad, but... thanks!
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Thx that that tip, Gp! The Necks are great, no losers in their discog.EDIT: Oh, except they show as $9.49 for me.
I was a big fan of Rdio, and am very sad to see it go. It had the simplest, most direct and album-oriented interface, and only cost me $5/month (desktop only). A steal. In the end I blame Napster, which established the $0 price anchor, and caused a …And heck, who's still a member that's not prepared to shrug their shoulders at a 20+ hour outage?...On Mac, I for one have never had a problem with their provided downloader.Yeah, that last bit, with the cloud downloads reappearing, was annoying! But you can flat out delete them in your library and they'll disappear again. Stupid though.Gp, you may be able to grep the xml files from past Itunes library files, see if it ever appeared in any of them.Many many people were seeing scrobbling fully seize up with a "cached" status for nearly a week, but it seems to have finally been fixed<…Gah, yes, I hate it, mostly because I browse last.fm mostly on artist lists, and all that image vomit makes that impossible.Ah, appears a Windows problem. Macs appear to escape those issues unscathed.