wednesday, may 12, 2004
a can of paint it fell on my head
i spent several hours this afternoon fixing the id tags of my itunes library. yeah, that’s my favorite unproductive thing to do when i’m rather stressed from school and stuff.
amazon’s popular music search is the only true source of cover art and release years. it’s also good for total track numbers. i’m not sure about its formatting of album titles, though — sometimes they’re slightly different from the cd’s “real” title. also, i wish it let me search by song title, so i could easily see all the albums that a song is on.
ieatbrainz was somewhat helpful for identifying the albums and track numbers of some songs, but i already have most of my music painstakingly identified. i imagine this would be really good if half your music was “track 8 - unknown” or something.
gracenote’s cddb has a pretty complete set of song/album/artist information. some of its suggested album titles, however, are hopelessly obscure, and sometimes the data is incorrect. amazon is better for most of that, except for when you don’t know what album a song belongs to.
the itunes music store is perfect for figuring out those pesky genres. the chosen categorization isn’t my favorite, but it is fairly consistent. just insert the album into “search” and note the genre.
of course, it doesn’t have some particular specimens of super-awesome music, but you can guess on those genres.
hey wait, it now has the latest album! woohoo!
now i will go listen to 30-second previews on repeat for half an hour, because (alas!) the songs are too new to be well-distributed on file-sharing networks. i have a birthday in a month. maybe i will buy it.
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monday, april 12, 2004
mee pee tee x 4
i like music. i like free, somewhat obscure music made by real people. you probably do too (that is, if i have my personas right, and my persona is myself, so i’m always right).
first we present burr settles. he makes neat web toys and good music:
- “the armadillo song” - just fun. it’s about a singing armadillo, after all.
- “your derivative” - probably the only religious song i like, since the wordplay is worth it.
- “butterflies and violets” - sweet and catchy.
- “josephine and adrianne” - same.
next, we have red martian. i’ve only listened to “supercomputing facility”, which i really like. excerpt from the lyrics:
SDF
NetBSD
call malloc()
then call a free()
cached my stack
for a rehash
x86 into the trash
DEC had RISC
before intel
PeeCees suck
linux as well
then, i hate you when you’re pregnant. “stuff in this world” is good; the rest of the songs aren’t.
and finally horton’s choice. all eight songs are great: scratchy, rockish, and intelligent. my favorites are “oxygen” and “shores”, which are also on creative commons’ wonderful copy me/remix me cd.
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saturday, september 20, 2003
smilin unharmful eyes
an I shall drift off in dreams
an climb velvet carpets up t the stars
with newsweek magazines burnin an disappointin
people smoulderin an discustin tongues blazin
an jealous mongrel dogs walkin on hot coals
before my smilin unharmful eyes
(of such nitemares)
a letter from bob dylan (broadside magazine, january 1964)
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monday, december 16, 2002
fractal noise
i downloaded easy fractal…it’s the best! woohoo i’m having fun with that little thing! go get sound studio too! one funny thing about recording your own voice and listening to it: you hear your friends in it. it’s strange. i sound so much like them.
