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Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Your Content

In Technology on 10 March 2012 tagged codec, content, ipad, Music, rights, Technology, Video with 3 comments

listening to Hitting the Surface by Monolake from the album Ghosts. It’s the future. You have a device in your pocket that is exponentially more powerful and has hundreds, maybe thousands of times more storage than the largest computers of 30 years ago. Maybe you have a bag with a tablet computer in it which [...]

Lossless sale on Bleep

In Music on 23 March 2011 tagged audio, bleep, flac, lossless, Music with no comments

After posting my over-long screed on lossless audio yesterday, I was happy to see Bleep is running a sale on Lossless audio. Check it out! I finally replaced my copy of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and picked up a couple of albums by Four Tet and Seefeel to go along with it. All in glorious [...]

Lossless Libraries in iTunes

In Music on 22 March 2011 tagged aac, ale, audio, death of the music industry, flac, iTunes, mp3, Music, Technology with 3 comments

Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business. Jon Bon Jovi, via MSNBC reprinting the Sunday Times (paywalled) A popular recent quote from a man who’s seen a thousand cities and rocked them all. I’m not a fan of Bon Jovi’s music, but I can’t really argue with what he’s saying in the [...]

iOS 4.3: I think we’re done here

In Computing on 9 March 2011 tagged Computing, ios, ipad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Music, Software with no comments

Almost 3 years + 1 month later, the last item on my iPod wishlist can be checked off: iTunes connectivity – it already hooks into the iTunes Music Store via wifi, why not allow it to browse and playback music from shared iTunes libraries on the LAN? I would love to be able to access [...]

iOS 4.2

In Computing on 4 December 2010 tagged Apple, audio, Computing, ios, ipad, iPod, iTunes, media, Music, streaming with 2 comments

A couple of years ago when I got my first iPod touch, I wrote up a small wishlist of things I’d like to see it be able to do. That was back in 2008 and I’m happy to report that 3 out of 5 things have been done. Not bad, but the number one thing [...]

Best of the Oughts

In Music on 24 April 2010 tagged 2000s, best, lists, Music, playlist with 9 comments

I think I’ve edited this to hell and back again. I’m just gonna push “post”. These are some of my favorite albums of the last decade. The list is by no means comprehensive. I could include more. Scroll down to the bottom for a playlist if you want to assemble your own. (note, I’m hearing [...]

Best music of ’09

In Entertainment, Music on 21 February 2010 tagged best of, Entertainment, lists, Music, top ten with no comments

Yeah, I’m late, but I might as well type up this list before we’re much further into 2010. It seemed like kind of a dull year for music. I did a lot of back-filling which should make for an even more compelling Best of the Oughts if I can ever get around to writing that. [...]

Headphones Part 3: Grado SR225

In Technology on 19 December 2009 tagged audio, headphones, Music, reviews with no comments

It’s been awhile in coming, but I think today’s going to be the day I write part 3 in my series of headphone reviews. The deciding factor has been a renewed interest in my Grado SR225s brought about by the sudden and shocking death of my beloved Koss Portapro headphones which finally gave up the [...]