Weekly Observations: 2012 Weeks 2 and 3
It’s time again for my random musical thoughts from the last two weeks and news about Music Discussions.
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Weekly Observations: 2011 Week 52 and 2012 Week 1
With last weekend being the new year, I did not have a chance to post anything. So, I have combined last week’s news with this week’s for another double-article.
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Boxee Cancels Their HTPC
The last version of Boxee for computers (as opposed to the embedded version) has been announced; notice that I did not say the "latest" version. I am not sure why the Boxee team are abandoning their users, but I will definitely be looking into other solutions since they no longer seem to care about me as a user. Whether you agree or disagree with their decision, you can let them know what you think in the comment section of their announcement.
Album Reviews for 2012-01-07
Between albums I received for Christmas, albums I was sent for review, the new Best of Bootie release, and my normal purchases, there are a number of new albums in my review queue. As always, I intend to review all of these albums on Music Reviews at some point in the future, although I appear to be becoming further behind.
Weekly Observations: 2011 Weeks 50 and 51
I apologize for not posting this last weekend, but my web host had been hacked and was wiping, backing up, and reinstalling so this blog was down. So this weekend, I am posting my observations from the last two weeks!
On NPR, I learned about Tuba thefts from schools in California. My question is how does someone sneak out with a tuba – let alone a number of them? I mean, have you seen them? They are huge! And seriously, kids have enough issues without having their instruments stolen.
eMusic issued a $5.00 credit for those who logged in between November 17th and December 9th as thanks for their patience during the transition to the new layout.
There is a free 6 song sampler from the soundtrack for the new version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo".
On Wednesday, I received an e-mail from Google Music stating that they had a number of albums of sale for $4.99 and tracks on sale for $0.49. I checked their site to see what they were offering since it was the same price per track as eMusic usually charges. While perusing their selection, I noticed that a 9 song album was selling for $0.49 per track and $4.99 for the whole album. If you bough each track individually, you would save $0.58; isn’t this the opposite of how buying a collection instead of purchasing piecemeal normally works?
Hopefully I will actually be able to post next week at the regularly scheduled time. With New Years though, it may be slightly late.