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When we turned off the PC that we used to use for watching TV, it also took away our ability to play music in the livingroom (since the HD TiVo that we have doesn’t support HME or HMO). So, we decided to break down and buy a couple more Squeezeboxes for the rest of the [...]
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Well, I’ve finally found an easy way to use last.fm with the way I listen to music — which is all from my personal server. It turns out that ampache has a builtin last.fm client support. So, anything that anyone plays using my ampache server automatically gets “scrobbled” to last.fm. I’ve currently set it up [...]
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After the troubles with Netjuke after my upgrade to FC6, I decided to start looking around for a replacement for it. In my searching, I came across ampache, which offers basically everything Netjuke did, and more. Here’s a short version of all the great things: A ‘search’ that searches everything (artists, albums, tracks) all at [...]
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After upgrading to FC6, which includes PHP 5.1, when I clicked on the “play” icons in the Netjuke UI, the playlist would show in the browser instead of starting playback. The problem seemed to be that Netjuke was now returning “text/html” for the mime type of the generated .m3u, instead of whatever it used to [...]
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The annual SXSW (South By Southwest) music festival is one of my main sources of finding new, excellent music. Every year, the organizers of the show produce a torrent full of demo songs from all the participants. Although it was hard to find, I just found the 2007 torrent linked from the toolbox page. Here’s [...]
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I was going to write a post about how much great music has just been released. Maybe that will happen later. In the mean time, check out this quote from the e-music review of the Mountain Goats latest album: “Woke Up New,” an ersatz calypso confessional, charts a painfully quotidian re-emergence from coupledom, while the [...]
Continue Reading →I just thought I’d see if Jinzora had made any progress with putting together a good web-based music interface. So, I downloaded and installed jinzora 2.6. The verdict: JINZORA STILL BLOWS! It hung after spending about an hour importing 2/3 of my music (~16,000 songs). Not much more I can do at this point. Maybe [...]
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There was an interesting article in USA Today this weeken about eMusic, revealing that they’ve captured 11% of the total market share for online music. Thats really incredible, I had no idea they were so popular! Go eMusic! The thing that I think is funny is that eMusic’s market share vs. iTunes is almost exactly [...]
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Slimdevices announced their “Transporter” today. They say: Slim Devices’ Transporter™ was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic compact disc players. At the heart of Transporter is a “no compromise” attitude to component selection and electronic design. My [...]
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Holy crap. I had saw all the news about Yahoo! selling a single DRM-free mp3 of a crappy Jessica Simpson song. My first reaction was: “Great! DRM-free is the way to go! I hope Yahoo! doesn’t kill eMusic” Well, I didn’t actually look at the page that sells the song, and missed two crucial points. [...]
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