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I’m done w/ school, which means I’m now catching up on work work, freelance work, project work, cc competition work, oh, and catching on stuff like cleaning/paying bills and all the other stuff I’ve been putting off.
For those looking for things to read while I try to be productive, sites with better link lists than mine:
Yesterday, my Saddle Creek and CDBaby orders both arrived, so I’m swimming in new albums (also, reminded me to drop by EasyNews). It’s been a while since I’ve inflicted the web with my taste in music, and tis the season, right? (no 12yr old lawsuits funded by these albums, 100% RIAA free)
Some other music links:
The company that makes this sued my friend
Someone was asking about WinAMP -> web plugins. Here’s what I found in a quick search:
Black Isle (and Fallout 3) has been canned. Too bad, looks like it was shaping up.
Winamp 5.0 is out now, and it kicks much ass. It’s everything WinAMP 3 should have been. I’m really digging their media library. Does everything you’d think it should, and leaves the goddamn playlist alone. So, where’s the rendezvous enabled mac version?
WA2 core + Wasabi skin support, media library. Also, has global hot keys, which kick butt; WA3 is shelved, but Wasabi development continues. Hmm, here’s an iPod plugin, apparently…
What would be great is if Magnatune had a stream-to-shopping cart click-through somehow. Unfortunately, there’s no real standard. One can embed Winamp minibrowser URLs, but that’s just plain annoying. Neither Extended M3U, PLSv2, or icy/shoutcast have per-song URL support (and no players with a clickthrough interface anyway)… This would be such an obvious thing that people would want to do that you’d think there be a playlist standard to attach extra arbitrary metadata onto streams, but I guess not.
Well, I guess you can have some smarter streaming software that tracks which song to which IP (or some other identification method that’d work for proxies; but you’d have to assign a cookie or something first), so that one can visit a page and be able to buy from there. Not *quite* one-click, but pretty close.
This weekend, Creative Commons announced some great new stuff (7MB Flash), including the new Sampling licenses, and tracks to soon be released by Gilberto Gil. Also, 1M+ licensed works, book re-releasing and science licenses.
God I hate how iTunes handles m3u’s. What kind of retarded behavior is to load streaming files into the main Library, and then of course to completely lose track of the original m3u order. Hello? What’s the point of a PLAYLIST if you’re going to ignore it? Also, if I select a bunch of MP3s to open, I want to be able to actually listen to the songs I selected (what a concept!) not see them completely mish-mashed (and not queued up) in my Library. So let me revise that: I hate how iTunes handles MP3s in general. (I can’t be the only one, can I? – and yes, most of my complaints would be fixed by having an ‘active/current playlist’ and a button/auto-pref to insert played songs into the Library)
Newish KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic shows (see also Sounds Eclectic weekly list):