Archive for August 2008

Response to “Illegal Music Downloading”

I just read Miles Moen’s article on illegal music downloading and I have to agree with his assessment. If ISPs start tracking users’ behaviour too much and penalize them for activities that are illegal in many jurisdictions, users will switch to ISPs that do not pay as much attention. Many ISPs are willing to either not monitor or ignore online activity if it causes them to gain new customers or, at least, keep their existing customers.

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iConcertCal review

last week I discovered iConcertCal, a plug-in for iTunes that will allow users to enter their postal code and a radius and then display a calendar with events.

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Reviews of independent and local groups

If you are in a group not signed to a major label or that hasn’t made it past playing in your local bars, I would love to hear from you. The music reviews site that accompanies this blog is always on the lookout for interesting music to listen to.

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iTunes and Album covers

Why is it that iTunes cannot get the correct album art for CDs? I am not complaining about the times when it cannot find any album art, just the times when it gets the wrong album art.

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Discover new music…in your old CDs

Recently, I have been listening to CDs that I bought back in high school and, I don’t know if this is unusual or not, but back then I normally listened to the songs that influenced me to buy the CD and gave the rest of the songs about 15 seconds to impress me.

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