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Entries associated with the tag "Itunes":May 5th - 7:44 p.m.
Of all the stuff I've downloaded in the past few months--including the 47 most recent Lil Wayne mix tapes and Cloverfield--probably the one thing that has most improved my life is Widget Foundry's Amazon Album Art Widget for Mac OS X. (If you're not using OS X you can grab a non-widget version here.) Ever since Apple introduced album-art support in iTunes, I've struggled to balance my OCD-driven desire to acquire art for every single record on my hard drive with the pain-in-the-assness of having to track down everything that's not on iTunes and the bugginess of manually assigning art. The Amazon Album Art Widget has made it entirely unnecessary for me to restrain my compulsiveness--I just select an album's tracks in iTunes, enter the album title in the AAAW, and in usually less that three mouse clicks my jams are connected to the proper art and I'm free to go make sure all of the picture frames hanging on my apartment walls are exactly level. January 28th - 7:16 p.m.
Was anyone else excited about downloading Qtrax, the free and legal P2P music-sharing source? I was, until I realized that the beta that'll be made available at midnight is Windows only. Oh, and also it has none of the major-label deals that were supposed to make it a legitimate threat to iTunes et al, so it's already starting to look like a nonstarter, especially considering that Amazon's poised to jump into the mix and fuck everyone's day up. In related and less legal news, the Pirate Bay has announced that its user base has broken the ten million mark, offering up over a million torrents to share, including one that contains the complete Slayer discography and is extremely highly recommended. January 3rd - 1:13 p.m.
What's up with this rumor that Apple and Jay-Z--fresh from the president's chair at Def Jam--will be collaborating on a sure-to-be Internet-blowing-up online record label thinger? It makes sense that Apple would want to get with the most famous and most rapping-est label guy around, but it seems a little odd that they'd want to work with a dude who's clinging to some outdated ideas about music distribution and who basically dissed on the whole iTunes model by refusing to break American Gangster into singles. And what about the rumors that Radiohead have been signed on as VPs and that the label's first release is going to be a Feist concept album all about LOLcats? They aren't true. I just made them up.
November 30th - 2:37 p.m.
I usually regret opening e-mails from addresses I don't recognize, especially when the subject header is "I miss you too..." because they usually turn out to be solicitations for subliterate pornography or subliterate ads for medicines to enhance body parts I don't have, or just possibly, subliterate stalking. But this one was special, and it wasn't subliterate at all. It was from Thomas Dunning, the effusive jet-setter who used to spam me ALL THE TIME back in the day with news of every event in Chicago that turned his head, including his own Hoot Night events. Now that he divides his time between Chicago and Dublin, I don't hear from him as much.
Of course, the big news he had to break his silence to announce isn't about him at all: he's ecstatic that iTunes and eMusic have made the long out-of-print Kate Bush tribute album I Wanna Be Kate available again. And that Bush will have a new song on the sound track for the film version of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Dunning dutifully sends along a picture of Kate all done up as the high-flying witch Serafina Pekkala, complete with wild goose daemon.) Dunning doesn't get around to announcing his own news of local interest--that there's to be an "Ambiguously Unthemed" Hoot Night show on February 27 at Schubas. |
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