Posted by hank, Thu Jan 17 00:30:00 UTC 2008
I love the SixtyOne. It uses a point-based system to allow me to vote up my favorite music, which accrues me more points when more people vote it up. It’s basically like digg for music. Not all the songs are free, but you can listen to the full versions of the songs on demand without buying them.
Posted by hank, Mon Jan 07 05:03:00 UTC 2008
I love this picture. Source
Posted by hank, Thu Oct 11 23:17:00 UTC 2007
Radiohead made an album recently, and you can buy it for however much you type in. I spent $5 on it, and downloaded it immediately. It made me feel good. It’s too bad more artists don’t do this.
Posted by hank, Sun Aug 05 02:59:00 UTC 2007
I was listening to my music today, and I heard a line that I found hilarious coming from mainstream music. The song was Guarded by Monkeys by Cracker. It goes like this:
You are so beautiful
You should be hid deep in the jungle
On some forgotten island
I heard about you
I got your PGP key
I write you letters every day
You are so beautiful
You should be guarded by monkeys
You are so beautiful
Though, it should be GPG key IMHO ;)
Posted by hank, Mon Jul 16 14:15:00 UTC 2007
I was listening to music today, and I hear this:
The song is Skeleton Key by Days of the New. Hmmm…I know I’ve heard that sound somewhere else…
Comment if you caught it too to let me know I’m not nuts. I’ll be updating this post with what it is when I’ve received enough comments.
I give up. Here’s what it is. I hope Microsoft sues.
Posted by hank, Fri May 11 04:22:00 UTC 2007
I was messing around writing some sweet SQL statements for amarok tonight. You can either run them using the MySQL console or using dcop (google ‘amarok dcop’). Here’s some examples:
# List artists and their average rating and number of ratings ordered by favorite artists first
SELECT a.name, avg(s.rating) avg, COUNT(s.rating) count FROM tags t, artist a, statistics s WHERE a.id=t.artist AND t.url=s.url GROUP BY a.name HAVING count > 10 ORDER BY avg DESC;
Posted by hank, Mon Mar 12 06:33:00 UTC 2007
Here’s an unofficial archive of RhymeTorrents’ fascinating discography thus far. It’s Albums 1-6 and the Halloween EP in one TAR! Get it. We’ll see how well Site5 handles this (though I just did a test and got 2MB/s from them!) It should be fine.
Posted by hank, Wed Mar 07 02:04:00 UTC 2007
I’ve decided Amie Street is the best idea in music shopping for a long time.
It’s easy. You just put in your billing info, and get direct credit for your money. I put in $25, which was enough to but the whole album and then some. The album cost me $14.30, which means about $10 went directly to Barenaked Ladies instead of $1. I hope this catches on and completely replaces CDs and Record Companies.
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