18 March 2009 ~ Comments Off

I feel good about my restraint with my iPhone – not too many paid apps, not too many iTunes songs….

I feel good about my restraint with my iPhone – not too many paid apps, not too many iTunes songs. But the 3.0 buy-in-app stuff is worrying.

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Tags: iphone, itunes, worry

23 February 2009 ~ Comments Off

iTunes says Ska is Alternative/Pop/Reggae/Rock. Where’s Punk? They say the Ramones are…

iTunes says Ska is Alternative/Pop/Reggae/Rock. Where’s Punk? They say the Ramones are Alternative/Pop/Rock, so why is there a Punk genre?

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Tags: itunes, ramones

29 July 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Dr. Horrible: $6, $4 or Free?

Go watch Dr. Horrible. Go. Now.

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22 May 2008 ~ Comments Off

Fixing my iTunes metadata – so tedious… why did I rip all these CDs back before iTunes and CDDB? Blech.

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Tags: itunes

16 April 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Perfect Timing

Songs in my iTunes Library lasting exactly 2 minutes and 42 seconds:

Elvis Costello: “Little Triggers”
Chuck Berry: “Around and Around”?
Ray Charles: “Mess Around”
Dee-Lite: “You Sexy Thing”
Bruce Springsteen: “Fire”
Patsy Cline: “Crazy”
The Ramones: “I Just Want To See Something To Do”
Pearl Jam: “Oceans”
Otis Redding: “Shake”
Arlo Guthrie: “Highway In the Wind”
Muddy Waters: “Trouble No More”
Johnny Cash: “Folsom Prison [...]

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30 October 2007 ~ Comments Off

Re: Jackass of the Week: NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker

John Gruber named Jeff Zucker Jackass of the Week for saying:
Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business.
John points out that before iTunes, people were used to downloading music for free. And now that NBC has pulled their shows from iTunes, that’s what [...]

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