Comments on: New Music Related Habits

By: tecosystems » Friday Afternoon Grab Bag

tecosystems » Friday Afternoon Grab Bag — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:54:56 +0000

[...] of you may remember that I cut over to the Mozilla based media player Songbird a while back. For the most part I’ve been a very happy camper with Songbird, particularly when I use it in [...]

By: tecosystems » Miscellaneous Music Updates

tecosystems » Miscellaneous Music Updates — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:14:14 +0000

[...] Because I’m no longer buying music through Apple’s iTunes store (with the exception of one Christmas giftcard which I used to buy new albums from Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins and The Oohlas), it was more or less inevitable that I’d be buying CD’s. So it was yesterday, when I visitied Denver’s Twist and Shout to pick up the the new Beck, the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and the new Shins discs. These are probably the first physical CD’s I’ve bought since Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief. It’s amazing how irritating the medium is still, with it’s difficult to remove plastic wrapping and that damn sticker at the top. At least they came without DRM like those awful Sony discs. All three albums are good, incidentally. [...]

By: tecosystems » John Herren @ Mashup Camp

tecosystems » John Herren @ Mashup Camp — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:01:07 +0000

[...] You might even have the chance to meet the author(s) of some of your favorite web applications. I was honored to have met, as an example, Adrian Holovaty at the first Mashup Camp. I likewise was thrilled to be introduced (by Laura) to Anthony Volodkin - the man behind The Hype Machine (mentioned previously here) - this afternoon. Hope to have the chance to chat with Anthony more extensively tomorrow, but I felt compelled to hand him my nickel (the Mashup Camp equivalent of a vote) because I’ve been using his application so extensively for at least three months. [...]

By: Danno

Danno — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:53:30 +0000

You didn’t even look in that thread, did you?! I’m insulted (not really).

Hymn has been updated to work with iTunes 7.0.2

http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1553

By: redfive

redfive — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:29:03 +0000

Gah! So I should’ve taken another step in my process. I just realized the blog feed isn’t music, but apparently links to websites. So it doesn’t do much good to subscribe to it in Songbird right now. :-\

However, what I did outline _does_ work great, if the rss feed is actual music (or podcasts etc…)

By: redfive

redfive — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:15:55 +0000

I noticed you said you loaded their feed into your feed reader. I went and checked out the link you posted and you can actually load and subscribe to that directly in Songbird. I went to the main page: http://hype.non-standard.net/ scrolled down and clicked on the link for the rss feed. It shows up in the left pane (the service pane) as a playlist.

From there you can click on the playlist to listen and view the tracks and the Subscribe to the playlist (using the buttons on the bottom) and get updates everyday ( or every hour, or every 134 minutes). Voila!

By: sogrady

sogrady — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:59:31 +0000

Erik: outstanding. i’ll probably hold off on the iPod one for a bit, given that i just got mine back from the shop, but i’ve already loaded the eMusic one and will play with it. thanks for dropping a note.

By: Erik Staats

Erik Staats — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:55:47 +0000

I have a Songbird iPod extension available. I'm working on an update to it. I also have a Songbird eMusic extension available. I have a screencast that shows how to use it. It makes using eMusic much easier.

By: Patrick Mueller

Patrick Mueller — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:49:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip on WOXY. Didn’t realize they were a Cincinnati-based station (note the spelling!). Having been raised in Cinci (even easier spelling that most people will understand!), that’s prompted me to actually give them a listen.

Personally, I’m a radio paradise fan-boy.

And I’ve come to the conclusion over the last year or so that I don’t really ever have a need to buy CDs anymore. I’m so lazy that even buying and ripping a CD, and then specifically playing it, and then having to pick something else, or do ratings in the player, etc … is all waaay too much work. When instead, I can double click an internet radio station that plays stuff I enjoy listening to, new and old, all day long. NPR and podcasts are filling the bill for not-near-a-computer listening needs.

Also had it with the ITunes store; never bought much there anyway, but I used to give the kids a gift certificate for X-mas. This year it’ll be a GC at my a local music store (Record Exchange).

By: sogrady

sogrady — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:25:38 +0000

Danno: I thought of that, but according to Wikipedia, Hymn is for 5 and older music only (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_(software)).

James: hmm…dunno if i’m aggressive enough to replace the iPod’s firmware. apart from the DRM and all, it’s pretty damn good.

thx much for the decryption suggestions: maybe a holiday project for me.

Brian: mostly b/c Songbird’s a different design than the players mentioned. i don’t know Amarok that well, but i’ve used both Banshee and Rhythmbox fairly extensively. they are fine players, but a bit traditional in their approach. it’s rather Songbird’s new features - the downloading and so on - that make it compelling for me.

it’s got some major shortcomings, but it’s a nice project.

Mig: yeah, i’ve used Singingfish b/c that’s the Songbird default, but i’ve found The Hype Machine to be far more extensive.

thx for the tip on the inline search - hadn’t used that.

as for being rough hewn, don’t sweat it. it’s true, but the player is still really impressive. keep up the good work.

Mark: well, if it’s got your endorsement that’s good enough for me.

the slow thing is a concern, though. i’ve got a LOT of iTunes tracks.