Ian Winter » music

New Music

Ian — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:55:21 +0000

Thanks to a simple link over to audioporncentral from a mate I’ve discovered all sorts of crazy cool music in the last fe days. Now it’s not everyone’s taste, but, it’s damn cool. Mainly mashups of assorted but general high quality. The particular standout winner are The Kleptones. Their website has all their music available, for free, mp3 download… just the way it should be! My favourite so far is Uptime from the uptime/downtime record. It’s awesome, so many tunes so little time! The Bestival live also is worth a play.

Awesome Idea

Ian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:11:59 +0000

Are you in an office with RFID door-entry? If not you should be… this idea is awesome! [via @timblair]

Last.fm and Winamp 5.5

Ian — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:17:00 +0000

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

Audio Fingerprinting

Ian — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:35:00 +0000

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.

RIP Fopp

Ian — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:10:00 +0000

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.

Mainstream-O-Meter

Ian — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:55:00 +0000

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 %

Audio Relief

Ian — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:21:00 +0000

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.

Bryan Adams

Ian — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:38:00 +0000

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.

Upcoming Gigs

Ian — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:52:00 +0000

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.

Squeezebox

Ian — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:12:00 +0000

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