I think it's a great idea to be able to see what other people in your proximity are listening too. It really does bring a super-social aspect (as in you wouldn't be able to do it without technology) into the music experience. I definitely think that there is room for a non-proximity based playlist sharing mechanisim though. Of course, I'm extremely biased because that's exactly what my site does, but it seems to me that if you wanted to find out about new music that you would need a much larger sample set than "the people in my general vicinity".
That being said, being able to sample the music in another persons collection is totally sweet. It's nice that they don't have to deal with the RIAA since the program would presumably work withougt a central server.
ah, but then you would be missing out on all the sweet collaborative filtering and rating stuff. Of course you could always listen to the furthernet stuff, and then use my site (if you have itunes):)
do the same with iTunes
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That's the idea behind my site www.musicmobs.org. It takes your iTunes playlist and lets you see other people that have similar taste. It's a great way to find new music, and let other people check out what you are listening to.
Check out musicmobs. It only works for people with iTunes and it's brand new (live as of about half a week ago) but it's goal is to help promote music that people actually listen to.
It seems to me that for a long time we've valued art on a sort of artificial scarcity. Previous to the last couple of decades, you had to have a very expensive education and connections to the larger art community (be it music, movies or books...) if you were going to create art that could be appreciated on more than a local level. Now that we've removed these limitations I suspect that we will see a exponential rise of great "artists". Who knows how many future Bachs are sitting around farming tobacco in some 3rd world country.
I think we are really on the cusp of a huge (read never seen anything like it before) wave of art. Does that mean we devalue art since it will become a commodity? I hope not, but it remains to be seen.
I wonder if this will push Apple to stick a couple more chips in the Power Macs? Maybe IBM's plan was to put together a cheap system to get Apple to buy more chips from them.
I think phones should have wifi capabilities, not for getting on a network but for sharing network connectivity. Having a phone that used 3g to get connectivity and used 802.X to broadcast a network "cloud" around the phone would be pretty sweet.
but you could check out the classics like Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Illuminatis Trilogy, anything by Rand...those all seem to appeal to geek sensibilities.
I'm 24 and have been infatuated with computers since I can remember. I really feel as if I'm part of the tail end of the last generation that's going to have such a love affair with technology. Even to me now, the tech field is almost unbearable. All of the mystery is gone and it's been replaced with lowest common denominator corporate tripe. The pc now, is little more than a glorified vcr. Built to feed you aol/tw content. Forget working in the tech field as well. Why put up with the disrespect you'll get from burned out frat boy wannabe managers? Why work to throw out 90% of what you do? Why try to do a good job when no one cares if you do? Just because you enjoy a field that is rapidly becoming less enjoyable doesn't mean that you should enslave yourself in it's name.
All it takes is for one or two of the big guys to pick up Postgres and bring it up to the level of Oracle. All of the cash flying around for those Oracle licenses could sure fund a lot of oss db development.
Not to be rude, but perhaps if you feel that way you should spend more time setting expectations. Developers always complain about management (I know I've dealt with some crappy managers), but I think that it's the fault of the industry as a whole for not setting expectations right.
Half the time the problem is the vendors telling management that their product will slash costs by 200% and be implemented in a week for a 10th the price of the competition.
If you're a consultant I'm sure you've seen the ever popular salesman screw job where your sales person doesn't have to guts to tell your client what their development is really going to cost them, so it ends up being done by the you (the developer). That always leads to some fun discussions.
For your smart playlist why couldn't you just do an AND query with my rating > *** + Genre != Ambient + Genre != Trance?
As far as using text to speech in os x, you should check out the "osacript" command. You can pass it any applescript (including 'say'...for text to speech) and it executes it. Create a shell or perl script that grabs some headlines, and cron job it, and there you go. I've got one that plays my "wake up" list in itunes in the morning, then anounces the time (because the alarm goes off twice and I often fall back asleep).
Here's the talking alarm script:
#!/bin/sh
sleep $1;date +'say "%l %M"' | sed s/\ 00/\ o\'clock/ | sed s/\ 0/o/ | osascript
It's nice to have any music you can think of availible instantly in iTunes. With 2k songs that's just not going to happen (if you are serious about your music that is!). Other reasons for a huge library: Hearing new music during "random" play (iTunes random actually kind of sucks) Sharing a library with friends... Direct Connect file limits
I think if you want to stick to top 40 stuff from the last 30 years, you could probably live with a ~5k song library. Once you start branching out into different genres and downloading legal (read mp3.com) files, I'd say ~15k will probably give you more breathing room. Remember it's about selection, not sequential play.
I didn't say they were going to make money on hardware. I said that the xbox would have wider adoption. That means more potential game customers for MS (especially now that they are gonna own the game companies).
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I think it's a great idea to be able to see what other people in your proximity are listening too. It really does bring a super-social aspect (as in you wouldn't be able to do it without technology) into the music experience. I definitely think that there is room for a non-proximity based playlist sharing mechanisim though. Of course, I'm extremely biased because that's exactly what my site does, but it seems to me that if you wanted to find out about new music that you would need a much larger sample set than "the people in my general vicinity".
That being said, being able to sample the music in another persons collection is totally sweet. It's nice that they don't have to deal with the RIAA since the program would presumably work withougt a central server.
I miss all of the old computer magazines. Nothing like having BASIC embedded in your articles. I think Compute was my all time favorite.
ah, but then you would be missing out on all the sweet collaborative filtering and rating stuff. Of course you could always listen to the furthernet stuff, and then use my site (if you have itunes) :)
That's the idea behind my site www.musicmobs.org. It takes your iTunes playlist and lets you see other people that have similar taste. It's a great way to find new music, and let other people check out what you are listening to.
Check out musicmobs. It only works for people with iTunes and it's brand new (live as of about half a week ago) but it's goal is to help promote music that people actually listen to.
It seems to me that for a long time we've valued art on a sort of artificial scarcity. Previous to the last couple of decades, you had to have a very expensive education and connections to the larger art community (be it music, movies or books...) if you were going to create art that could be appreciated on more than a local level. Now that we've removed these limitations I suspect that we will see a exponential rise of great "artists". Who knows how many future Bachs are sitting around farming tobacco in some 3rd world country.
I think we are really on the cusp of a huge (read never seen anything like it before) wave of art. Does that mean we devalue art since it will become a commodity? I hope not, but it remains to be seen.
don't put your laptop on or near your amp. trust me.
with linux on the backend.
I'll take my karma now.
They should just have a tube with a real time blood test that feeds you beer until your BAC reaches the desired level.
That's pretty much exactly what I said. IBMs quad systems are going to cause Apple to buy more "G5"s from IBM.
I wonder if this will push Apple to stick a couple more chips in the Power Macs? Maybe IBM's plan was to put together a cheap system to get Apple to buy more chips from them.
Using the Axim as a X client on a wireless network would be kind of like having a kick ass linux remote control.
I think phones should have wifi capabilities, not for getting on a network but for sharing network connectivity. Having a phone that used 3g to get connectivity and used 802.X to broadcast a network "cloud" around the phone would be pretty sweet.
but you could check out the classics like Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Illuminatis Trilogy, anything by Rand...those all seem to appeal to geek sensibilities.
I'm 24 and have been infatuated with computers since I can remember. I really feel as if I'm part of the tail end of the last generation that's going to have such a love affair with technology. Even to me now, the tech field is almost unbearable. All of the mystery is gone and it's been replaced with lowest common denominator corporate tripe. The pc now, is little more than a glorified vcr. Built to feed you aol/tw content. Forget working in the tech field as well. Why put up with the disrespect you'll get from burned out frat boy wannabe managers? Why work to throw out 90% of what you do? Why try to do a good job when no one cares if you do? Just because you enjoy a field that is rapidly becoming less enjoyable doesn't mean that you should enslave yourself in it's name.
haven't you guys seen this? No mention of format though.
All it takes is for one or two of the big guys to pick up Postgres and bring it up to the level of Oracle. All of the cash flying around for those Oracle licenses could sure fund a lot of oss db development.
too bad there's something fucked up in their apache config, and you're gonna lose a third of your potential views.
I would like to see some 3d interfaces. Metaverse here we come!
towards a world of independent consultant musicians, and businesses that cater to them. I wonder how many A&R guys have already made the jump?
Not to be rude, but perhaps if you feel that way you should spend more time setting expectations. Developers always complain about management (I know I've dealt with some crappy managers), but I think that it's the fault of the industry as a whole for not setting expectations right.
Half the time the problem is the vendors telling management that their product will slash costs by 200% and be implemented in a week for a 10th the price of the competition.
If you're a consultant I'm sure you've seen the ever popular salesman screw job where your sales person doesn't have to guts to tell your client what their development is really going to cost them, so it ends up being done by the you (the developer). That always leads to some fun discussions.
Put tags in the comments field, it makes the searches much more powerful.
For your smart playlist why couldn't you just do an AND query with my rating > *** + Genre != Ambient + Genre != Trance?
As far as using text to speech in os x, you should check out the "osacript" command. You can pass it any applescript (including 'say'...for text to speech) and it executes it. Create a shell or perl script that grabs some headlines, and cron job it, and there you go. I've got one that plays my "wake up" list in itunes in the morning, then anounces the time (because the alarm goes off twice and I often fall back asleep).
Here's the talking alarm script:
#!/bin/sh
sleep $1;date +'say "%l %M"' | sed s/\ 00/\ o\'clock/ | sed s/\ 0/o/ | osascript
It's nice to have any music you can think of availible instantly in iTunes. With 2k songs that's just not going to happen (if you are serious about your music that is!). Other reasons for a huge library:
Hearing new music during "random" play (iTunes random actually kind of sucks)
Sharing a library with friends...
Direct Connect file limits
I think if you want to stick to top 40 stuff from the last 30 years, you could probably live with a ~5k song library. Once you start branching out into different genres and downloading legal (read mp3.com) files, I'd say ~15k will probably give you more breathing room. Remember it's about selection, not sequential play.
I didn't say they were going to make money on hardware. I said that the xbox would have wider adoption. That means more potential game customers for MS (especially now that they are gonna own the game companies).