Dec
9th
Wed
9th
I’d feel frustrated if we couldn’t release CDs as a band, but then, it only costs us a slight shaving of sound quality to get to the convenience of the MP3. It’s like putting up with tape hiss on a cassette. I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I’m sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles. If I’m on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they’re finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
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From an interview with Jonny Greenwood.
In relation to this line: “and partly because they’re finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.”
That is something less obvious about 8tracks. It’s my preferred format of music consumption.
“Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after two days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.”-hilarious.
This is fucking awesome!
Merry xmas
Dec
8th
Tue
8th
Dec
6th
Sun
6th
Nov
22nd
Sun
22nd
Rich Caetano (@arsydotorg), 8tracks’ back-end developer, presented our new public API for playback — and a preview version of our forthcoming iPhone application — at Music Hack Day in Boston yesterday.
We issued our first official press release to announce the API, which is available at http://developer.8tracks.com/. Anyone can create music programming using the 8tracks platform — what we’ve always done — but can now add it to a third-party application (website, mobile, device) via the API.
This is a small first step toward establishing 8tracks as an online standard for sharing playlists in a legal, sustainable manner.
Feel free to ask questions!
Nov
16th
Mon
16th
I’ve been having such a fun time hanging out with Anna and Tyler, and sometimes lending a hand fixing up their great new place. Soon it will be time to paint. Heh.
Wow! Looking really nice!
I think that’s my sweater on the chair… the one I forgot the second time around.
Nov
13th
Fri
13th
Seriously? More people die from alcohol than Cocaine?
Nov
11th
Wed
11th
creativity
