Weekly Observations: 2012 Weeks 10 and 11
Wow, it’s hard to believe that we’re already 11 weeks into 2012. In any case, some of my recent musical ponderings are below.
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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.
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.
Recent eMusic Issues
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.
New Project: An Interface to Subsonic
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.