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Social 2.5
I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Music Archives
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I’ve been meaning to get some headphones to keep at the office for a while. About a month ago I started doing some research, inspired by Amazon’s Black Friday deals and watching Jason Fried’s TEDx talk about interruptions. Here is what I’ve gleaned so far. There are three basic kinds of headphone designs that are…
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I just finished rating the last of my unrated songs in iTunes. I’d done this back in 2005, but since then another 1000 or so songs made their way into my library1. Those are now rated as well – I guess it’s time to rip some more of my CDs. I blame Geof Morris for…
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My cousin Ryan is crashing with us tonight on his way back to grad school in Ohio. Much like last time, we had a great time staying up too late diddling around on a couple of guitars. Also much like last time, I discovered I have zero calluses on my fretting hand these days. I…
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It took them a little while, but NBC has indeed put up a clean MP3 of the fantastic jazz rendition of O Holy Night that aired on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip last monday night. While it was frustrating not being able to find it right away, I’m thrilled that they have made it…
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Update: NBC has now made this song available for download. Here is a direct link. The jazz version of O Holy Night at the end of tonight’s episode of Studio 60 knocked my socks off. When the voiceover said to go to nbc.com for more on tonight’s music, I was very hopeful. I thought, “perhaps…
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As planned, I went to Vienna Teng‘s concert at the Walnut Room1 this evening. I’ve seen Vienna perform a few times in smaller venues, but not since I’d moved to Denver from the Bay Area in 2004. As you would expect, her performance skills have matured quite a bit after spending the last few years…
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Whoohoo! There is a release date for Vienna’s new album. I’ve already pre-ordered mine through Amazon. She’ll be performing here in Denver on August 2nd, I’ll be there.
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I bought Jayron Weaver’s CD a few weeks ago (as I previously planned) – I think it’s pretty good. If you liked him on Nashville Star, it’s definitely worth getting. Besides, it’s always good to support someone just starting out. I think he’ll have more success sticking with the ballads that really showcase his voice…
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I’d love to be able to subscribe to RSS or iCalendars for concerts in my area by artists I like… someone has got to be offering this, right?
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For the last three weeks1, I’ve been working out 4 days a week2 (brief pause while I give myself a self-congratulatory pat on the back). I’m back to playing volleyball three times a week and my shoulder was starting to get sore from the combination of too much activity and me getting soft. The solution,…
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It occurred to me that if I really wanted people to contribute reports for iTunes Stats, I should make it a little easier to build the reports separately. I’ve posted a new version that takes a step in that direction, and includes 4 sample reports. Download version 0.2 beta. Reports are now individual files in…
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Well, I got curious so I went ahead and wrote up a little script to grab some basic stats from my iTunes data. I figured others might be interested in this as well, so I’ve packaged it up as a download. Download What it does right now: Imports a Library.xml export from iTunes into a…
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I’ve been rating songs using an “unrated” smart playlist on my iPod since I got it. So far, I’ve gotten through a little over 2000 songs and have ~800 to go. Now that I have all this data, I want to see some stats on it. I’d installed an old version of Goombah at one…
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I’ve looked at settings, searched the web, tried setting the sort order in iTunes… does anyone know how to alpha sort songs on the iPod? In particular, I’d like songs to be in alpha order when I go to Artists – [Artist Name] – All Songs, but also within an individual album.
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Whew! I’m back from my week-long vacation to Nova Scotia: some hiking, a little golf, got rained on, went whale watching, ate some lobster, listened to some great music, found occasional internet access, got (just a little) sunburned, spent way too long on an airplane getting to and from and had my first experience going…
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I’ve been watching Nashville Star again1 this season. Unfortunately, Jayron Weaver – my favorite to win it all, got the boot tonight. A real traveshamockery if there ever was one. This kid has an unbelievable voice, I’m sure he’ll get a record deal out of this one way or another if he wants one. I…
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I’ve been working on rating all my digital music recently (still a long way to go). Pretty easy in iTunes: Create a live updating smart playlist that contains all your unrated songs. Rate them as you listen (even easier with global keyboard shortcuts from Synergy). Only one problem, when you rate a song it is…
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I’ve started playing a little bit with AudioScrobbler and Goombah. I think the idea of gathering (and predicting/guessing at) useful bits of information from large amounts of data is pretty cool. I like Goombah because it will mine existing data rather than just harvest it in real time. Also, AudioScrobbler still hasn’t shown me any…
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I’m sure most of you already know about this site, but thanks to Bill I wasted a good half hour there this morning. There is a nice selection of Vienna Teng’s music there too.
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I still have a mix tape1 a friend made for me back in college. The last song on Side A is Round Here by Counting Crows, but as the song ends it fades into an instrumental tune that I don’t know. My guess is that there was something else originally on the tape before the…
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This comment: I like the previous CD better than the new one simply because some of the new songs sound too country for me. on my Norah Jones on Austin City Limits post was ‘endorsement’ enough for me to buy the album from the Apple Music Store this week. I probably wouldn’t have gotten it…
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I’m watching Norah Jones perform on Austin City Limits (thanks TiVo). Awesome performance, I wish you could buy MP3′s of these. If anyone knows of a way to get a copy of this performance, let me know. I’d only heard a few of her songs previously and hadn’t noticed that her voice has a very…
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I got the new Vienna Teng and Indigo Girls discs today – very good stuff. I’d heard a lot of the songs on Vienna’s new CD Warm Strangers already, and they sound great in polished CD form. Often I prefer the debut album of most artists to their sophmore effort (they’ve generally had longer to…
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I finally saw The Samples live in concert tonight. They played a great show at the Fox Theater in Boulder including a bunch of songs from my college days. My only regret was forgetting to bring my camera – doh! I was looking forward to seeing what kind of shots I could get using the…
