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Seriously, I don’t get paid by eMusic to do this! But I’ve been a member of eMusic since 2002, and I have never regretted joining. Sure, it was easier to justify back when it was unlimited downloads for the monthly fee, but I never really thought that would last anyway. I love my current plan [...]

So those of you who have read this blog for a while know that I use Amarok exclusively. With a music library as large as mine (17,000+ tracks), one needs to choose one library management system and stick with it. In my opinion, anyway. A library this big requires a good rating system (it is [...]

It took friggin’ forever, but Amarok is finally able to transfer album artwork to my beloved iPod Nano! Supposedly, album art support has been in Amarok for a while, but it didn’t work because Amarok couldn’t correctly set the iPod model string.
Well, fortunately, Amarok 1.4.6 has been released. And even more fortunately, it is already [...]

I’ve mentioned here before that my digital music collection is massive. We’re at 15,000 songs with more being added every month. I’ve built this collection from a number of sources, including ripping from CDs, purchasing from iTunes, and downloading from eMusic. This has left me with a gigantic music library, and a music library [...]

Gizmodo started it, I’m joining in: Boycott the RIAA in March:
With that in mind, Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out [...]

Putting aisde (for now) the interesting history of the X11Amp series of media players, and ignoring the multiple typos in the article, I stumbled upon a rather startling revelation:
Leaving off where the BMP development team stopped, William “nenolod” Pitcock decided to fork BMP a few days after Milosz started BMPx, and called it Audacious. Starting [...]

Via Lifehacker: 15 ways to get more out of Pandora. I’ve posted about Pandora here multiple times, and each time I’ve mentioned how much I love this service. Turns out not only does Lifehacker love it, they have advice on how to get more out of Pandora!
There’s just so much you can do with music [...]

So what do you do if you’re a loyal eMusic subscriber, but then one day eMusic goes and disables their Download Manager for Linux? I faced that dilemma for quite a while, until Robin Sheat wrote and released EMusicJ / An eMusic download manager for Linux. What is it, you ask? Why, it is:
eMusic/J is [...]

Like many of us, sogrady at tecosystems has been looking for a good solution to sync an iPod. He stumbled upon my old favorite, gtkPod. gtkPod is a workhorse, a no-frills, no-eye-candy, no-nonsense single-purpose tool. And it does a great job transferring files to and from an iPod. But that’s about all it does. For [...]

Those of us who love amaroK but use Ubuntu Breezy were left out of this month’s release of amaroK Fast Forward. Due to irreconcilable conflicts, amarok 1.4 is not in the official Ubuntu repositories. However, if you are willing to take chances on an unofficial repository, the amaroK Wiki has step-by-step instructions to [...]