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	<title>Music Discussions &#187; services</title>
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		<title>Boxee Cancels Their HTPC</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/953</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last version of Boxee for computers (as opposed to the embedded version) has been announced; notice that I did not say the &#34;latest&#34; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Observations: 2011 Weeks 50 and 51</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/948</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eMusic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent eMusic Issues</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/940</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/940#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eMusic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you probably know from previous posts, I have had an eMusic account for around two years.  I have always found their service to be a good value and easy to use, but lately I have been having issues due to their recent site changes.

Some of the problems are, admittedly, on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Project:  An Interface to Subsonic</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/927</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/927#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of creating a new desktop interface for Subsonic and hope to have a beta version up for download in a couple of months.

For those of you who do not know what Subsonic is, please check out my previous article reviewing Subsonic.
Why am I creating another interface for Subsonic when about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Subsonic</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/921</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/921#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had been looking for a way to stream my music to my phone or laptop for a while now and was considering signing up for a music locker service.  However, a couple of months ago, a friend of mine suggested I look into Subsonic.

Subsonic is a free / open source server licensed under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Stand-Alone MP3 Players Needed?</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/894</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/894#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MP3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandora]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year or two, I have noticed that &#8211; at least as far as I can tell &#8211; there is absolutely no reason to have a stand-alone music     player.  As, Alton Brown says about kitchen aids, you shouldn&#8217;t buy a one use item.

Cell phones are so powerful these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tubeify Review</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/886</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/886#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banshee]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tubeify is a new &#34;web 2.0&#34; service that is a combines several music related services into a useful online music experience.  It is still missing a couple of features in my opinion, but it appears to still be in Beta as you have to have an invite to join, so I expect more features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last.fm and Ping</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/879</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/879#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[scrobble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone actually use Last.fm for more than scrobbling?

I did when I first subscribed and they allowed me to listen to full tracks of my choice on demand.  In more recent times, they have been removing playback features to focus on their scrobbling service.  This change makes sense for Last.fm as they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with Amazon&#8217;s MP3 Downloads</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/877</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/877#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to start off by saying that I do not have problems with the MP3s themselves; MP3s that I have downloaded have always played correctly and have been of high quality.  I do however have issues with their service.

One weekend about a month ago, I downloaded an album but forgot to put it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Issues with Scrobbling</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/849</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/849#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EVO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around about two weeks ago I started experiencing problems with Last.fm&#8217;s scrobbling service.  Scrobbling tracks what songs and albums users listen to and suggest similar music that the listeners may also like.

The specific problem that I have been facing is that certain online services and programs have either stopped scrobbling or are not scrobbling [...]]]></description>
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