Last year around this time I switched computers from a laptop to an HP desktop that I am still very happy with. One of the consequences, though, was that I had to import my entire iTunes library into the new computer, which effectively reset the play counts on all my tracks to 0.About a month ago, I used iTunes to make a smart playlist of all the songs that had a play count of 0, to find out exact
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Posts by cleverjoke
A Smart Playlist
If you like Pandora, Last.fm, or internet radio in general...
Of all institutions, it's the Library of Congress that might pave the way for the destruction of internet radio.A ruling by a three-person LOC subcomittee called the Copyright Royalty Board is set to raise the price of producing internet radio to a per-track price that might spell the end of services like Pandora and Last.fm, among many many others. It's a move backed by the RIAA (surprise, sur...
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The song from that commercial...
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For anyone who's ever wondered what that song was you heard in the background of a particular commercial, here's a site where they attempt to catalog as much of it as possible. The site is called adtunes.com, and it's a great place to look if those likeable 30-second snippets aren't enough for you.I remember years ago VW had a commercial that featured "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake, and I wished at ...
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A Release Worth Getting Excited About...
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One of these years, I'm going to have to get to South by Southwest.For now, I'm stuck in Jersey following it via podcast, blogs (especially http://www.livemusicblog.com/, which seems to scratch me right where I itch), and this year for the first time the SxSW player available on their website (http://2007.sxsw.com/music/). Unfortunately, the samples aren't live, but they're still a halfway decent
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Find me more avocadoclub!
Apart from the free downloads on last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/Avocadoclub), I can't seem to track these guys down. All I know is that they're German, and that's not doing it for me.Help if you can.Quick before I do something drastic.No, not really.
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Locating MOG account...