August 2010
35 posts
How do you merge iTunes libraries while preserving...
For me, the Date Added field in iTunes is probably the most important field, after the obvious Artist / Track / etc. I sort by this field to get a sane view of the library, the dates also often carry extra information (for ex. here is music I discovered while in Berlin, etc).
According to my research, none of the iTunes library merging tools are able to modify the Date Added field when merging...
“Had a conversation with a NY-based promoter yesterday. He was at a conference in...”
– Email from a friend (via gtmcknight)
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: trying to get the vibe... →
“maybe that could be like the new metric for measuring how conceptual/meta/post-modern whatever you’re doing is, for example like “yeah i’m writing this cloud-based internet application that is actually both a monetarily incentivized game and a social media tool and it also has a wiki-style user-updated database. as it stands i’m at 3 grandma-hours but if i integrate it with foursquare...
65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
Arkadiy reminded...
“Copyright law is supposed to help consumers by protecting innovation, not...”
– Copycats vs. Copyrights - Newsweek (via publicknowledge) (via 2105) (via mikehudack) (via rafer)
Get friendly screen scrollback in Terminal.app
From Stackoverflow:
In screenrc:
# Make xterm scrolling work properly with screen. termcapinfo xterm-color|xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@
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This is the natural next step. I am happy someone is building this.
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“We were astounded at the entitlement that people felt to get their music for...”
– Cary Sherman, talking with Vice about RIAA’s work in the past decade. Good read.
The amount of entitlement on the web is pretty impressive, perhaps this is because it’s unnatural to imagine real people on the other end. The Hype Machine gets tons of complaints because you can’t...
Massive Attack - Heat Miser (from Protection,...
“My guess is that most people find new pop the same way I do: you hear about...”
– From the first part of Atlantic’s series on music discovery. This one features the Hype Machine.
If you want to understand music discovery outside of ‘hit prediction’, ‘social tagging’ or ‘twitter regurgitation’, read the other two as well. Part 2 on...
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1. We Built This App on RocknRoll: Style Matters
Discussing the importance of style in music web apps with Hannah Donovan (Head designer, Last.fm). Why are they important? How do you take them into account while creating the app? What will happen if you don’t? Don’t be the one with the headphone girl on the front page!
2. Bootstrapped to Millions of Dollars in Profit
Talking...
What are people thinking when they make something...
If it’s like that, why bother? Not only why would someone read it, but why even write it?
What’s on their mind? This bewilders me and Zoya.
Have you done this or seen this happen? Can you explain?
Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company →
Great post on growth. The rest of the posts on Ben Horowitz’s blog are great too. And while you are reading, there is always Marc Andreessen’s semi-abandoned but good blog. (via Ian)