{"id":98,"date":"2008-08-29T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-11-24T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:20:14","slug":"iconcertcal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/98","title":{"rendered":"iConcertCal review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last week I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconcertcal.com\">iConcertCal<\/a>, a plug-in for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\">iTunes<\/a> that will allow users to enter their postal code and a radius and then display a calendar with events.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The calendar is treated as a visualizer, so it cannot be used with one of the actual effects &#8211; which all look like they were ripped of from Cthugha Player anyway. But, in theory, if you are looking at a calendar, you aren&#8217;t watching plasma effects simultaneously; that&#8217;s a level of multi-tasking that I&#8217;m not capable of anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It got my ZIP code wrong and thought that I was in a suburb &#8211; not that it made much difference &#8211; but this was extremely easy to change. As was extending the radius from 75 miles to 150 miles.  I was also pleasantly surprised at which concerts are displayed; I assumed that all events in my area would be listed, but the plug-in is smart enough to only show events from artists that are in your library. This can still be annoying at times if you have compilation or soundtrack albums containing many artists &#8211; several of which you don&#8217;t really care for. Overall though, this is a much better solution than any of the alternatives that I can think of: showing all events or asking the user for a list or artists.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just wish I had the time to go to concerts. Ah college was such a great time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[721,728,136,137,729,132,41,135,83,715],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-utilities","tag-advice","tag-concert","tag-cthugha","tag-effect","tag-event","tag-iconcertcal","tag-itunes","tag-plug-in","tag-review","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}