Music Discussions

Okay, so normally I assume that when I buy used CDs they will have some slight wear and tear from normal use or possibly that the jewel case will be cracked or have a hinge broken off. No big deal, jewel cases are cheap enough to replace, and I end up rounding the edges of the booklets a bit taking them out and putting them back in the case, so a slightly worn booklet will look like the other CDs in my collection. But seriously, I received something really farked in the mail today.

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I knew that Comcast was considering putting a cap on monthly bandwidth used by their customers, but today I found out that they are really going through with it. According to Kim Peterson on MSN’s moneyblog, the new limits will approximately 6000 songs per month to be downloaded. (ed. Comcast’s faq lists 62500 songs, not the 6000 that I read elsewhere.)

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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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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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iTunes runs under Wine, albeit rather slowly. I can attest to this as I have personally installed in on the Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit partition on my office computer using the newest stable version of Wine. I have not tried the store, but DAAP (the protocol that allows iTunes to share music with other computers) works flawlessly. Music plays without skipping or lag, but scrolling through your library can take an exceedingly long time.

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