3 posts tagged “music”

Due to  how Friend Feed aggregates your different social networks, I am rediscovering networks  that I had signed up for but had either forgotten about or stopped using.  One of those networks is Pandora, I liked Pandora but one of its disadvantage was that you had to have a browser window open to use it. Due to this, I stopped using it.  I was reading my Google reader feeds and saw an article from Lifehacker about an application called Pandoraboy.  This is an Mac only application, once you download it  you sign in with your Pandora Information and its sits on your desktop.  You can use it as you would the reqular Pandora website.   I only used for a couple of hours this afternoon, but I do like the product so far. 

Can we please stop calling every music service that is announce the next itune killer. It is annoying and riduculus.  Yes someday someone will produce something superior to Itunes, but we will not know it untill the product has been around for awhile.  The latest attempt is a joint venture between My Space and several major record labels (Universal, Time Warner and Sony)  announced earlier this week.   There were no details given on how this service will be set up, whether it will be sales only or sales and subscription.  What kind of portal players it will work on.  Will it have dmr, the questions go on.   According to the article in Eflux media  Myspace  executive  would like a free streaming service, where people could share music with their friends along with buy tickets and not just a music store.  The record  companies  see it as a way to increase sales and clearly to break Itune's lock.  The problem, will as usual be in the details.

In my eyes Amazon services has the best chance to compete against Itunes.   Yes its  now only 6% of the total sales, but it has the potential to grow and Amazon has already shown it has staying power.   It is a website that everyone goes to and is not specific to a certain age group.  Once you download the music from the site you can use it on any media player. It has a large library.  You already go there to buy products, so the idea of purchasing music to download there isn't strange.  The main drawback is that is online and the layout is not the most user friendly

I hate the question, what is your favorite music, because I don't know.  It really depends on the mood I am in.  My music collection runs from hard rock (Led Zepplin, Metallica) to Bluegrass ( Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs) I also have a jazz collection, soul and even old school rap.  This morning while driving to work I was listening to my jazz collection, tonight I may listen to some hard rock.  I decided to try to do my  desert island picks, ( if you were being put on a desert island and you could have only 15 albums what would you take)

American Recording-Johnny Cash

Human Touch-Bruce Springstein

La Woman-The Doors

Last of the Indepence-The Pretender

Car Wheel on a Gravel Road-Lucinda Williams

Rattle and Hum-U2

Superunknown-Soundgarden

The Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash

Concert in Chicago-Louis Armstrong

Family Style-Stevie Ray Vaughn

Chant-Gergorian Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

Electric Landlady-Jimmie Hendrix

Handel's Messiah-Handel

Red Headed Stranger-Willie Nelson

Earl Scruggs and Friends-Earl Scruggs

My rule on this was no compilations or greatest hits and I must actually own the album.  This was actually harder then  I thought.