03 May 2007
This service rocks. It’s free, has a pretty good range of music, and is guaranteed to make me buy more music (on CD, because all electronic music download services are still either illegal or stupid).
The Flash player kicks butt (there’s a desktop one coming soon), and intelligently hooks into the webpage’s markup to update the title with every new song. It’s gold. Song Title by Artist from Album Name. It says Album Name! I’m sitting here scribbling down must-acquire ’90s music.
It uses AAC2+ apparently… all I really know is that it sounds great and is stupidly easy to use.
Brilliant.
But possibly unsustainable… none of my money is going to them. They’re launching hardware devices, so this might just be a ploy to get people to buy them, but I’m more interested in who’s doing all the work. There’s absolutely zero crowd-sourcing going on here that I can see… which means that “Related Artists” list is all professionally programmed. I know the Top Stations are, but the artists bit is going a little far perhaps…
Triple J Unearthed and Myspace and PureVolume, etc., all do it the other way around, which seems infinitely more sensible… but you need critical mass to get there, I suppose.
One to watch. And listen to.
03 May 2007
It does a lot of things right. CS2 was good in its integration but pretty mediocre in thumbnailing and metadata support, but this is finally an app worth having. The filter (bottom left) is magical; the thumbnailing isn’t horrifically compressed like it used to be; resizing using the slider is a lot faster; there are three different immensely-useful views built in…
It’s just good. And lots lots lots faster to use than CS2 is (load time is similar, but once you’re actually using it… pure gold).
02 May 2007
I saw the most ridiculous Google text ad yet today:
“Shocking Piano Lessons – Piano Teachers Want us Banned Controversial Site Exposes All”
It was one of those zero-relevance Gmail index page ads, which can be a bit quirky… even so. Seriously bizarre.
30 Apr 2007
The things you find…
The one on the right is replacing the one on the left. The one on the right was found on the street – the one on the left was found in a rubbish dump a few months earlier. My secondary monitor just got an upgrade… I’ll be putting off that new LCD purchase for another couple of months!
And yes, that is Premiere Pro on the screen. CS3 has a free Beta available… I’m really loving it! It’s crippled in many ways but if you can’t afford Premiere and don’t already have an earlier version it’s a pretty good option. I’m probably going to install the free Beta on a secondary computer once CS3 goes gold and I buy the real thing… so there can be one real version that does everything, and another production-capable workstation also running CS3. Speaking of which, two projectors, two vision mixers, three cameras, two PC’s, a DVD player, a couple of radio mics and a whole bucketload of cables are getting a workout tomorrow evening for a cooking evening. Should be interesting… but I desperately need sleep now to be awake for then. Need more time to just veg and blog and talk to people and stuff… ahhh! *head explosion* Next week should be an improvement…