Category Archives: Music

We’re a Squeezebox household now.

Posted on June 19, 2007 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Scrobbling, 5 years late.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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ampache is a great replacement for Netjuke!

Posted on March 9, 2007 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Patch for Netjuke & Fedora Core 6 & PHP 5.1

Posted on March 9, 2007 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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SXSW ’07 torrent full of goodness.

Posted on March 9, 2007 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Pretentious music reviews.

Posted on September 13, 2006 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Jinzora still blows.

Posted on September 5, 2006 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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eMusic::iTunes : Apple::Wintel

Posted on July 31, 2006 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Slimdevices: Transporter

Posted on July 24, 2006 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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Yahoo!’s sad vision of DRM-free music.

Posted on July 23, 2006 by slacy

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 … Continue reading →

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