Category: music

Delicious Library

I’ve been entering my audio CDs into Delicious Library. I’ve entered about 200 so far; probably another 200 to go. I just found one good reason why it’s worth my time to do this. I bought a (used) copy of “Are You OK?” by Was (Not Was) from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. I was quite sure that I only had that album on vinyl and not CD. Well, now I have two copies on CD, since I just found my original CD while I was entering stuff into Delicious. As a side note, the main reason I bought the new copy was due to a strange desire to listen to “I Feel Better Than James Brown”. Now, I’m feeling a little conflicted about that.

cataloging stuff

I just bought a license for Delicious Library, as part of a bundle of Mac apps from MacHeist. I haven’t really tried to catalog my CDs, DVDs and/or books at any time in the last twenty years, but I’m always at least slightly tempted to give it a go. If I did, I’d want to be able to sync my library to LibraryThing.com, so it’d all be out there on the internet too.

Cornelius – Sensuous

Some nifty videos from the new Cornelius album can be found here. I really enjoyed Point, and this stuff sounds pretty good too. Point came out in the US on Matador, but I don’t see any indication that Sensuous will be coming out in the US any time soon. I do see it available as an import on Amazon.com, at a variety of price points, the cheapest being a little over $20, available in early January.

more Christmas music

And just to get carried away with the whole Christmas music thing, I also just downloaded the bonus tracks from A Charlie Brown Christmas that are available on eMusic. (I downloaded the original album from them a couple of years ago.) And A Bing Crosby Christmas, just to use up my remaining credits for the month. Boy howdy, I’m in a Christmas mood now!

Santastic 2

I posted about Santastic last year. I just noticed that Santastic 2 is out, for 2006. I’ll be downloading that soon. I also just heard something from Christmas Remixed, which is another fun Christmas album, and (luckily for me) downloadable from eMusic. And there’s a sequel to that one too.

Avoid the loony Zune

Andy Ihnatko’s Zune review in the Chicago Sun-Times is a classic. You gotta love it when phrases like “colossal blunder” and “complete, humiliating failure” appear in a review. Admittedly, Ihnatko is a long-time Apple fan, but he has some serious points about the Zune. I kind of hope he’s right when he says “the Zune will be dead and gone within six months.” If this thing is a success, it’ll just encourage other companies to take the same approach to DRM and functionality.

too much Christmas music

Okay, it’s two days after Thanksgiving, and I’m already tired of Christmas music. They started piping in music here on Main St. yesterday, and kept it going until a little after 10pm. They’re doing it again today. I’d really like to stay in for the most part this weekend, and get some stuff done, but I may have to go out just to escape having “Feliz Navidad” pounded into my head for the thirteenth time today.

“Weird Al” Yankovic

The new Weird Al album is out today! I’ve already heard “White and Nerdy” and “Don’t Download This Song”, and they’re both great. I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting this album, but I’m not sure if I should get the actual DualDisc, or just get it from iTunes.