From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #169 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, June 13 2003 Volume 03 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] iPod questions [Stewart Mason ] [loud-fans] Re: iPod questions [Steve Holtebeck ] [loud-fans] archiving question (ns) [dana-boy@juno.com] Re: [loud-fans] iPod questions [Dan Sallitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:49:56 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] iPod questions At 12:29 AM 6/13/2003 -0400, Dave Walker wrote: >The smart playlists are brilliant, too. I made one >specifically with Emusic in mind -- it contains all >the songs I've downloaded within the last 3 weeks but >haven't listened to yet. It's a good way to make sure >I'm not just stockpiling stuff and never listening >to it. I have a rule that I can't file a CD or record until I've listened to it all the way through at least once. My main way of getting through the pile is simply to stack all of the new acquisitions up in alphabetical order on top of my desk and start with A. That way, I don't have to go through the eternal agonies of "What should I listen to next?" Currently, for example, I'm listening to the debut by Dengue Fever, an LA band with a Cambodian-born female singer whose main inspiration are those grey-market collections of Asian psychedelic rock from the '60s that Julian Cope and the folks at Forced Exposure are always on about. Quite good, actually, and not as gimmicky as it probably sounds. By the way, an hour or so's fiddling with eMusic and the rest of my mp3-to-CD chain showed me what my problem was with the long tracks: it's actually a quirk that Cool Edit has with VBR mp3s. Simply converting the suspect tracks to WAV with another program before I open them in Cool Edit to do my usual remastering tweaks fixes it. Go fig. S NP: still the Dengue Fever disc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:51:34 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: [loud-fans] Re: iPod questions Aaron Mandel wrote: > > 1. The search engine *really* stinks. Misspell the name of the band > > and you're out of luck. Sometimes new albums/artists can't be found > > via the search engine for several weeks > And vice versa -- there are things you can download that have not yet > appeared in the New Releases list. Which really makes me wonder how all > this data is stored. I've wondered about that too. With the differences between the results of various searches (artist, album title, track title, new releases), I can't believe they're using any kind of a database. It's like their content and search indexes are all generated independently and posted to different servers without any attempt to sync everything up. I sure don't see any signs of dynamic database-driven content there. The best way I've to search eMusic for new content is by doing a google search for "New Pornographers site:emusic.com" to search all pages on emusic.com containing "New Pornographers". Most eMusic content is searchable via google long before it's searchable via eMusic! another Steve wrote: > The Steve said there would be iTunes for Windows by the end of the > year, and Apple posted the job openings for the port not long after. > Obviously, Apple needs it to have a chance of making the iTunes Store > a real success. And the Mac rumor sites are hinting that it's coming > along pretty well As a faithful reader of Bay Area job ads, I saw those Apple job openings last month, and there's no way in hell there's going to be an iTunes for Windows by "the end of the year" if they only started to recruit developers for the port in mid-May! And for Apple, hold back iTunes for Windows until next year means many more Macs under Christmas trees this year. Here's an interesting page "objectively" comparing AppleMusic vs. eMusic http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/emusic.html - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:47:25 -0400 From: dana-boy@juno.com Subject: [loud-fans] archiving question (ns) This is sort of related to the whole iPod thing. I was planning on buying a new hard drive to hold my expanding mp3 collection, but we spent the money on a tree instead (birch, it's very nice. Also some phlox and some wormwood. Shari wants to try to make absinthe, but I'm not sure it's the right kind), so I'm improvising. Picked up a 50 pack of CDR's with the thought that I could archive mp3s onto CDR. What I want to do (from Musicmatch, if possible) is to 1. have the archived songs show up in the music library and 2. have musicmatch indicate which CDR they're on. For example, if I click on the Marine Girls in the music library, I want some way of knowing that it's on CDR #3. Is there some elegant way to do this? I'd love it if I could end up with CDR's numbered 1 to 50, and just pull them out of a file box as needed. - -dana ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:14:44 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] iPod questions > I bought a cheapo $10 pair of Sony clip-on earbud "sport" headphones > today. They didn't work at all. The speakers weren't even pointed > inward toward the ear, which I found really strange. I too am still perplexed by the ear bud. I'm currently working on the theory that the speaker part of the bud is not supposed to face your brain, but rather the back of your ear. I tried that recently, and got through a whole album without an earache for the first time. - Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #169 *******************************