I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


dw - Nov 17, 2005 7:46:40 am PST #1227 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval

So a blogger friend of mine pretty much demanded a CD-of-the-month club from the world. I, of course, joined up. I got #1 a week ago, and I'm a little disappointed in the first guy's work -- he's trying to be a little too cutesy with some interstitial tracks. But I have been introduced to Mercury Rev finally.

So here's the problem with this club and iTunes: the damn restriction on burning playlists. I need to make 11 CDs, but iTunes limits the burns to 10 (7 if you bought the song after last fall IIRC). I can pass the songs through JHymn and theoretically fix the problems, but JHymn isn't working with iTunes 6 right now. So, I'm looking at either making a different mix with the same songs for everyone, or... going out to Kazaa or Limewire and using shared songs to get the same functionality. So, Apple and the record companies' stupid restrictions are forcing me into a life of crime.

Good news is that I'm not up until June, so maybe things will change between now and then.


tina f. - Nov 17, 2005 7:55:38 am PST #1228 of 10003

dw - I have often wondered about this - can you burn one copy of the cd with iTunes bought music on it and then just copy that CD over and over? In other words you are not burning an iTunes playlist 11 times but just making a copy of one CD perhaps even on a different computer. Does that still count toward your 10 burn limit?

Also - can you rip the first CD you burn (again, perhaps on a different computer) and then burn those files? Does that still affect your limit?

I have no idea because I have never burned a song bought from iTunes because I almost never buy from iTunes (unless I am sampling something for probable purchase) because I often make mixes for more than 10 people... but, anyway, I've always been curious if you can trick the burn counter by not burning directly from the iTunes playlist.


Sue - Nov 17, 2005 8:07:27 am PST #1229 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Can't you just recreate the list and call it something else?


Mr. Broom - Nov 17, 2005 8:20:31 am PST #1230 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

I want to include Surfer Rosa but don't know if it fits.
I'd say Doolittle, myself, on account of Kurt Cobain openly admitted they were ripping off that album when they put out Nevermind, and look how many people imitated them.


Hayden - Nov 17, 2005 8:21:17 am PST #1231 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Studio wizardry:

  • Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
  • Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  • Actually, although it's not necessarily a change for the better, anything made with ProTools is using the studio in new and odd ways.


Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 8:43:49 am PST #1232 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Question: what musicians are similar to, or in the same vein as, Rasputina?


Hayden - Nov 17, 2005 9:20:51 am PST #1233 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Not my field of expertise since I only know the Angel theme song, but the Dirty Three are all-instrumental and led by a violin-wielding madman.


tina f. - Nov 17, 2005 9:23:46 am PST #1234 of 10003

Angel theme song is Darling Violetta I thought? Dirty Three is Australian dudes who did that Fishtank album with Low, yes?


Jon B. - Nov 17, 2005 9:27:12 am PST #1235 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Onion articles often peter out after the first paragraph or so, but this one keep up the yucks throughout:

Metal Council Convenes To Discuss 'Metal Hand Sign' Abuse


Hayden - Nov 17, 2005 9:30:22 am PST #1236 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Angel theme song is Darling Violetta I thought? Dirty Three is Australian dudes who did that Fishtank album with Low, yes?

Ah, you're absolutely right. On both counts.