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| tericee |
Posted - 04/18/2006 : 12:45:14 PM
Okay, I recently bought a new iPod video and am LOVING it. So much so that I just had to share the LOVE; Fluffy's iPod is winging its way to him in the mail while he's on tour.
I'm hoping it will be a useful addition to his electronic toy collection since he said he's often offered audio and video recordings (by other bands, club employees, etc.) to put on an iPod, but he's never been able to take advantage of the offers. I can't figure out how to get a file off my iPod and on to my computer, though. If somebody puts a file on your iPod, does it have to live there forever?
teri :) |
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| SurferX |
Posted - 06/27/2006 : 12:23:52 AM
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Originally posted by tericee
Cool! I am now subscribed.
Now if all the other TR BOARD musicians would start their own. I wonder if Ben Pezzner will ever do a Podcast...
Zak, can you teach TR & Fluffy how to do one? I think an "on the road" or "in the studio" podcast from TR would be SOOOOO great.
I'd love to...It's not as hard as people think it is...
I just use Pro Tools to record and edit, and then a few twists and turns aside, I use WordPress to create my page (that's the long process).
But yeah, anyone who wants some help with a podcast just PM me or e-mail me...My address on here is current (I don't want to post it because all of my posts show up on Google). |
| Fluffy |
Posted - 06/26/2006 : 2:40:09 PM
Story from the Washington Post about ipods where they interview by old boss at the record store I worked at for almost 15 years:
With Online Music, It's a Buyer's Market
Shared, Often Eclectic Tastes Determine What Will Sell
By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 24, 2006; Page A01
For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks to the Internet, music lovers are rediscovering iconic titles like Ella Fitzgerald's "Sunshine of Your Love" and Quincy Jones's "Body Heat" -- rekindling enough popular demand to prompt Verve to reissue them through a project called Verve Vault.
"The demand for music has never been as big as it is today. We get all kinds of questions from customers worldwide, looking for a track name or an album, or asking, 'Why haven't you put that out yet?' " said Jon Vanhala, vice president of new media and strategic marketing at Verve. So far, about 2,700 albums have been brought back through the Vault, with more than 5,000 scheduled to follow.
Because the Internet has changed how people discover and share music, the rules of marketing it and the hierarchy of who determines what's hot have also changed. As radio-music listenership declines, the industry finds itself spending more time courting a broader field of tastemakers who, through Web sites, are popularizing songs that never get radio play. The primary tool in this transition is the playlist -- a sequence of tracks posted on blogs or shared on music purchase sites such as iTunes.
"I listen to way more music than I ever have in my life," said Robert Burke, a North Carolina quality assurance manager by day who spends nearly all of his free time searching through new music online, then compiling tracks in playlists with various themes, like rock songs that include a tuba, Top 20 bands from the 1980s with mullets, artists who sample riffs from Miles Davis, and so on.
"I kind of started it because I've always collected music, and I've become pretty obsessed with it since then," said Burke, whose blog on Yahoo Radish, Playlistradish.com, has published thousands of his playlists for the consumption of others.
With legions of new bands popping up online every day, fans need guidance just to keep up, said Oliver Wang, founder of Soul Sides, another high-traffic music blog.
In the online world, friends' recommendations or an endorsement from bloggers such as Wang and Burke, as well as podcasts such as "The Nashville Nobody Knows" and "Accident Hash," can yield significant marketplace results.
A duo called Gnarls Barkley, for example, found a huge following online. The band's songs, including "Crazy," were well established online before getting radio play. Its songs have been listened to on the band's MySpace social-networking site more than 6 million times. Transatlantic online exchanges made the British band Arctic Monkeys famous in the United States before any album came out here.
"Word of mouth benefits [independent labels] in particular, and we're only starting to see the benefits," said Kevin Arnold, founder and chief executive of the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, which disseminates music from 2,500 labels to digital music services.
To court the online tastemakers, the alliance last fall launched Promonet -- a system that maintains a master playlist of new releases for reviewers, Arnold said.
Digital music services themselves have become engines of recommendation. Music stores such as iTunes, EMusic, and Yahoo Music give users the ability to check out others' playlists, so people with similar tastes can find each other and discover new music. Additionally, services such as Rhapsody, Napster, Livefm, Pandora, AOL and Yahoo all have Internet-radio options with algorithms that register a person's taste and, based on the listeners preference, stream in similar, new music.
"I've found a few bands that way," including one called the Magic Numbers, said Alex Kilfoyle, 23, a Washington electrical engineer.
"When I started college, I was listening to rock and classic rock, and that's it," said Kilfoyle, who swaps music recommendations with old college friends through instant messaging, online chats and checking out each others' playlists on iTunes. A program called Hamachi also allows them to listen to music saved on each others' computers. Because of his friends, he said, his musical taste has evolved to "eclectic -- a lot of everything."
Ian Rogers, 33, grew up in Goshen, Ind., where there was no record store.
"I drove five hours to Chicago to see a punk rock band," he said. He'd pore over reviews in Maximumrocknroll magazine, then have his mother write checks so he could send off for albums without having listened to them, said Rogers, who is now director of product marketing for Yahoo Music.
The effort and cost involved in buying made him feel almost obligated to like what he could get, he said. "You end up consuming what's marketed to you. With the Internet, you consume exactly what you want."
To adjust to that shift, radio stations are experimenting with "send us your playlist," or by-request music shows, said Mike McGuire, an analyst with the research firm Gartner Inc. "It greatly complicates how you promote acts and content," which is why forward-thinking labels like Warner Music Group's all-digital label Cordless Recordings are spending more time and promotional money on finding bloggers, he said.
While consumers say the diversity and availability of more content is unequivocally good, some bemoan the lost art and distinction of having the great, comprehensive record collection.
In the past, a music aficionado had to invest time and money sifting through racks in the hunt for, say, a little-known ska band. Now, entire CD racks and vinyl-record collections can fit into several gigabytes of computer memory -- and people who never invested their resources in acquiring music can simply rip off a playlist, or type in a search to find that same, small-time ska band. It's yet another blow to brick-and-mortar record stores, which with the rise of digital music have already lost CD sales.
"The fun of collecting is gone," said Michael Crowley, who said he spent his childhood hunting for bootlegged copies of obscure acts in hidden-away record shops run by edgy people with nose rings. "They're not that fun if you can download them with a few mouse clicks," said Crowley, a Washington journalist who wrote about the rock snob's demise by digital music for the New Republic.
Crowley admits that he now relies more on music blogs and friends' playlists to keep up with trends in music, making him more of a follower than a leader in the online world. Still, he said, the ability to copy music can't stand in for taste. "Taste is something you have to cultivate."
Richard Carlisle toes a harder line. The self-described vinyl-record purist has sold records for 30 years and owns Orpheus Records in Arlington. He's never put an iPod to his ears and spends no time on the Internet surfing for new music. "I have a vested interest in people not using an iPod," he said. "I guess you could call it a sour-grapes phenomenon."
But online trends still affect his business; a customer recently came in asking for an album from an indie-rock band he'd never heard of -- Neutral Milk Hotel -- which had become popular online. Since then, he's sold roughly 30 of those albums.
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| Fluffy |
Posted - 06/16/2006 : 7:31:45 PM
We have a couple of TR podcasts out there in cyberspace. The newest being from Wakarusa for Relix magazine:
www.relix.com/radio
You can try and download it there or you go to iTunes and find it in the podcast section under "Cold Turkey powered by Relix Radio". It's Cold Turkey 552
Special Thanx to Benjy and Mike of Cold Turkey and Relix Magazine for taking TIMe out give TR the opportunity to do this podcast.
The other is an interview with TR done before The Mint gig in LA this past TouR:
http://www.thebackstagepass.ca/reynolds.mp3
You can also get this one off of iTunes if you so desire.
I am still pretty new at the iPod thing and it can be frustrating at TIMes, but I am sure I will get the hang of it. Thanx to Teri, again I am having to step into another age. LOL I just wasn't born for these TIMes! |
| tericee |
Posted - 05/19/2006 : 6:45:51 PM
Cool! I am now subscribed.
Now if all the other TR BOARD musicians would start their own. I wonder if Ben Pezzner will ever do a Podcast...
Zak, can you teach TR & Fluffy how to do one? I think an "on the road" or "in the studio" podcast from TR would be SOOOOO great. |
| SurferX |
Posted - 05/18/2006 : 5:58:54 PM
It's been a while since anyone has posted to this thread, but then again, it's been a while since I've been on the boards...
Anyway, for anyone interested, check out my podcast:
StickWorld Podcast
It's a podcast all about the Chapman Stick. It comes out every week on Tuesday.
Just thought I'd throw that out there... |
| tericee |
Posted - 04/21/2006 : 08:16:13 AM
Thanks, that sounds cool. |
| therippa |
Posted - 04/21/2006 : 04:25:29 AM
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Originally posted by tericee
I can't figure out how to get a file off my iPod and on to my computer, though. If somebody puts a file on your iPod, does it have to live there forever?
teri :)
iTunes is kinda evil when it comes to storing music on ipods...if you plugin your ipod to someone else's computer and open itunes, it will try to overwrite all of your files!
Use this software to extract songs from your ipod - http://www.ephpod.com/
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| thomasode |
Posted - 04/20/2006 : 10:45:20 AM
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Originally posted by Arthen
I love Barenaked Ladies and Morning Becomes, I used to love Giants, but I kind of lost touch with their stuff.
I get to go see BNL live at telluride in a month and a half or so! |
| tericee |
Posted - 04/20/2006 : 10:01:46 AM
Too funny! I have a German friend here that's just given up on watching American movies dubbed in German. It really annoys her for that very reason.
You should hear Ross on Friends. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 11:35:49 AM
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Originally posted by tericee
For example, National Treasure was renamed Verm�chtnis der Tempelritter, which means Legacy of the Knight's Templar.)
I like the German title better than the English title. I remember in high school watching Back to the Future dubbed in German, they found the highest pitched man to do the voice of Marty (Michael Fox): "Doc! Doc! Wo bist du, Doc?!" |
| tericee |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 05:09:34 AM
Oh yeah, and I also subscribe to Ebert and Roeper since living in Germany has gotten me out of touch with what new movies are coming out. (Except for the ones that are big enough to come out here too - and then we get to decipher the German movie names on posters all over town. For example, National Treasure was renamed Vermächtnis der Tempelritter, which means Legacy of the Knight's Templar.) |
| Arthen |
Posted - 04/18/2006 : 2:08:14 PM
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Originally posted by tericee
My subscription podcasts include The Official Lost Podcast (since I can purchase episodes that played the previous day!), BNL, TMBG, and KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.
I love Barenaked Ladies and Morning Becomes, I used to love Giants, but I kind of lost touch with their stuff. |
| tericee |
Posted - 04/18/2006 : 1:03:40 PM
Thanks but no thanks. That's the last thing I want to hear on my iPod. My iPod is for escapism only. Happy Fun iPod!
My subscription podcasts include The Official Lost Podcast (since I can purchase episodes that played the previous day!), BNL, TMBG, and KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. |
| rubylith |
Posted - 04/18/2006 : 12:58:43 PM
check out www.911podcasts.com |
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