Tag: iPod
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iTunes: What a crappy bit of software!
Fans of Apple tend to be pretty, well, fanatical, hailing everything Apple Inc. do (at least with Steve Jobs at the helm) as the greatest thing since sliced white bread. The Mac is better than the PC; the iPod is better than the Zune; apples are better than oranges; and so on, and so on, ad nauseam. In some respects they’re right: certainly Apple’s designers have flair and their hardware products sure look good, but I’m not entirely convinced of their supremacy on the software side of things. Specifically, iTunes (the software that ships with iPods) is just horrible. I… Read more
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A Year With Last FM
In a post a year ago I described a recently-published chart of ‘best ever’ albums that claimed to be the most accurate as it was based on historical sales. I posited that a chart based on what people were actually listening to would be better, although this would be impossible to obtain. In that post, I hazarded a guess (by way of example) that the 10 albums I listened to the most were: Radiohead OK Computer Desaperacidos Read Music Speak Spanish Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands At The Drive In Relationship of Command Pleasure Forever Alter Oasis… Read more
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Anyone for a quick game of scrobble?
Ever since I got my iPod I’ve wanted to find a way to list my ‘recently played’ tracks on this Blogsite. There are a few WordPress plugins and widgets that claim to do this, but they all seemed overly-complicated, requiring additional e-mail accounts, modified server permissions, and god knows what else. So what with having a life to live and all, I never found the time to dig into them and get any of them working properly. Then last week a buddy responded to a post of mine in the Music category, mentioning Last.fm which he said tracked people’s listening… Read more
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iTunes Saved The Radio Star
Another month, another 10 free downloads from the iTunes Store courtesy of Belgacom. Last month I went for building the perfect compilation from my youth. This month I took a diffferent approach. Regular readers will know that I listen to 3wk Internet Radio quite a lot. Whenever I hear something I really like, I make a note of it on my handheld, and then whenever I’m next in a record store or on Amazon.com and stuck for something to spend my hard-earned moolah on, I’ll whip out the list and pick something from it. Sometimes I hear a couple of things… Read more
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The Best Free Compilation From My Youth…Ever! (Plus One)
Although I’m an iPod owner, and an avid iTunes user, until this morning I’d never downloaded a song from the Apple Music Store (or anywhere else for that matter). Call me old-school, but I like having the CDs.  I do have all of my CDs ripped to my iPod, and some I’ve never even heard straight off the plastic, but I still feel happier having the physical backup. A couple of days ago I read a buddy’s ‘blog entry describing how he’d recreated a vinyl-only compilation from yesteryear by purchasing the individual tracks online. Co-oncidentally, at the same time, my service… Read more