kargatron
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Gp, seems you're using rating to key off of frequency desires - but if you're really using 5* to track "permanently on hand" (that just means "always sync", right?), you might be wasting it - a static playlist of same will serve just as well. Then y…
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Katrina, I can't tell from your description what functionality you're gaining, unless you are cherrypicking for your dumb playlist? Otherwise the work you describe seems precisely why smart playlists exist in the first place. Avoiding smart playlist…
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Gp, here's a wonderful piano trio I'd recommend, perhaps a bit more out there than your median piano-trio acquisition, but I don't think untenable:
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Seems you're just further running into what we've already noted, which is that iTunes really needs open tagging. :-/
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Yeah, I don't think there's an automatic solution to that. The compromise strategy is to sync a dumb playlist that you fill with the "unheard gems" in your spare time - you have to actively manage it over time, but at least whatever's in it at a giv…
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Gp, sounds a bit like browsing the large sample is a problem. What about trying to just make that easier? Keep your "rotation criteria", but limit it by N tracks randomly chosen. Then browse that playlist. You'll get a bigger album sample with a sma…
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Re: "slow Satie" -
Reinbert de Leeuw is rather famous for his well-regarded and very slow Satie performances, e.g. Gymnopedie No. 1 -
Btw, I don't recall seeing rostasi post after his pre-approval last post saying he was leaving. We were too late?
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rostasi, you refer to jazzcorner, above, yes? I remember your id, but couldn't place where.
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Very sad, only 76: the great jazz bassist Charlie Haden
in RIP Comment by kargatron July 2014
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True, can't use them dynamically or for browsing on portables, but you always have the option of creating playlists based on any tags and syncing them, at least.
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What the 'grouping' tag is for, no?
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The new double album: Swans - To Be Kind (7digital, $6.99)
in On Sale Comment by kargatron June 2014
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Gp, I agree - my comment is directed at any music fan who finds themselves using Prime Music - my guess is just that they would find themselves better off using another service.
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I'd submit that if one finds any use at all for Prime Music, they'd very likely find it more than worthwhile to just subscribe to a much better streaming service. Web-access subscriptions are $5/month, which is peanuts ($10 for mobile). I recognize …
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The Nels Cline Singers - "Divining" (from their latest tour)
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I took a look at Prime Music - doesn't have anything to offer to anyone already subscribing/using any of the standard, far superior services like Rdio, etc. Amazon's streaming catalog is an order of magnitude smaller. Catalog depth is negligible: e.…
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Sorry if this has been linked before, but I couldn't find it mentioned:
7 Great Albums You Can Download For Free Right NowI found this last ep simultaneously well-executed but underwhelming, in that almost no plot element budged. I will say that letting Ghost out just to show him maul a single dude instead of wreaking havoc across the courtyard was a head-scratcher. Wh…I didn't click through the "quiz", but do find this Harvard research effort interesting: Project Implicitbn, I think lastimer is working on "continual" updating, but is not there yet, so in general you can expect no updates, but they might succeed in running experimental daily runs. I think I read that's their goal, but it's not "in production" yet.Google Play is current pricing Clean Feed records by track, so low-number-track albums are cheap. E.g. a $2 bargain: Tim Berne's Ins…Would you have kicked me out when I asked if it was "that one good Queen song"?Ha, that's funny, bn. I have some records featuring Mazur.Enjoying the Letna, thanks Gp. It reminds me heavily of Microstoria, a collab between Oval and the Mouse On Mars guy. You familiar with them? Recommended.
Microstoria's …
