Ian Winter

If you've upgraded to Winamp 5.5 and are a last.fm user you may have noticed it doesn't scrobble correctly.

It's a know issue and you can download this new plugin from last.fm to fix it. I think looking at the forums it should go to their auto updater this week.

...WinampPluginSetup_2.0.47.0.exe

last.fm have launched an audio fingerprinting tool to allow them to clean up meta data. Pretty good idea I think. If you're a last.fm'r go help 'em out.

Taken from http://www.fopp.co.uk/down.html.

It is with great regret that we announce the closure of Fopp.

Our store chain is profitable, well regarded and loved by our loyal customers and staff. However we have failed to gain the necessary support from major stakeholders, suppliers and their credit insurers to generate sufficient working capital to run our expanding business.

We would like to thank staff and customers for their support over the past 25 years.

Any outstanding website orders have now been cancelled and will not be fulfilled or charged.

This sucks, Fopp was cool.

Do you use the awesome last.fm? If you do you need to check out how mainstream your music taste is.

At the moment I come in a respectable 23.28 %

Been on a new music hunt lately and come up with a few people I'd recommend you listen to:

The Rumble Strips, The Pigeon Detectives, Built to Spill, Band of Horses.

Saw Bryan Adams and Wembley Arena last Thursday. Having turned up late thanks to the hell of Hanger Lane traffic the set was very good. It was suppose to be for an album launch, but, he hasn't finished it so he said he toured anyway. Nice to hear all the old stuff as well and not too much newer bits. Pictures on Flickr.

Seems to be a bit of a gig year in 2007 and May is no exception. Tomorrow night am off to see Bryan Adams and Wembley Area and the on the 19th going to see Built To Spill at Reading Fez. Both should be good, photos will be Flickr'd post event.

A new version of Slimserver (6.5.1) has been released along with some new firmware as well.

My weekend mission, amongst others, is to get some more of my mp3 collection into iTunes so I can listen to it all on the Squeezebox.

I started at Z on the albums and am working down. Then have soundtracks, compilations, live, comedy and radio shows to tag up. So far got 14,038 songs (40.6 days, 80.92GB) and reckon I'm coming up to 1/4 of the total size and suspect 1/3 of the tracks. =D

Want to control your iTunes via mappable keyboard shortcuts? Check out iTunesKeys over at mattberube.com.

Very handy.

Shameless pluging for a site I designed, but hey, what else is the www for ?!?

Check out Last Night a 5 piece rock/pop band hailing from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Strongly recommend "That Guy". Enjoy.

Needless to say if any record big cheese' want to offer them a deal, remember where you saw 'em first ;)