I dislike that I have to display a big, ugly AT&T logo on my page, but Pandora Radio is awesome, so I'm willing to suck it up. I've played with the site in the past but only just created an account, so the selections you'll see aren't quite how I want them. I think it will pan out soon since I'll be using it a lot at work.
The gadget, which you'll see to the right, is pretty self-explanatory. I'm using their official widget because the regular RSS feed wasn't working properly. It didn't seem to update often enough, and Blogspot's feed gadget wasn't showing them in order of "newest first," so all you could read were the first 5 entries in the feed. Useless.
I added my Pandora stations as artist names in order to import them to Amie Street (since their field for manually adding artists seems to be made of fail); I don't think I'll be keeping them like that. Pandora's method of relating songs together is cool, but it keeps popping Incubus songs into the Coheed & Cambria station, despite my repeatedly moving them to the Incubus station. Do I even need to explain why that's incredibly silly? Really, now...
Aside from that, I think the site is so cool that I've decided to review it. That might turn into a regular thing; there are lots of music sites to either praise or castigate.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Moved
Well, all moved to Dubuque, finally. I'll try to contain my excitement.
I had taken the week off of work (which is where I tend to do my posting during downtime) for the move, thus the lack of posting this week. I'd like to get a review up this weekend, and there will be more to come. Some potentially great stuff came out this week, and I hope to do a lot of listening and writing tonight and tomorrow.
I'm also planning to start posting groups of "mini-reviews," which will consist of lists of several albums per post with brief remarks for each. Not everything warrants a full post, but I'd like to review as much of what I listen to as possible. I've pretty much just been doing the things that stand out to me; this does an injustice to the wide range of genres I listen to. I think keeping some of the reviews short and sweet will allow a more diverse assortment of reviews to come through. For now, the mini-reviews will just be for new releases.
Another idea that crossed my mind: it might be interesting to go back and listen to some of the mixtapes/CDs I've put together in years past, and write up a little something about them. More on that after an experimental run.
I had taken the week off of work (which is where I tend to do my posting during downtime) for the move, thus the lack of posting this week. I'd like to get a review up this weekend, and there will be more to come. Some potentially great stuff came out this week, and I hope to do a lot of listening and writing tonight and tomorrow.
I'm also planning to start posting groups of "mini-reviews," which will consist of lists of several albums per post with brief remarks for each. Not everything warrants a full post, but I'd like to review as much of what I listen to as possible. I've pretty much just been doing the things that stand out to me; this does an injustice to the wide range of genres I listen to. I think keeping some of the reviews short and sweet will allow a more diverse assortment of reviews to come through. For now, the mini-reviews will just be for new releases.
Another idea that crossed my mind: it might be interesting to go back and listen to some of the mixtapes/CDs I've put together in years past, and write up a little something about them. More on that after an experimental run.
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