Erasing tracks (scrobbles in this instance)
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under Gadgets, Summations, bother, music, rant
I deleted my last.fm (audioscrobbler) account after failing to see any reason to keep it. They’ve had years worth of tracking data since 05 from me when I last looked and I get little to nothing in return. The ads have become obtrusive (not as bad as YouTube which is an abomination now), the stats irrelevant and very little progress towards integration. I’m looking for something new, contiunally being an early adopter and seeing many music sites struggle and change their long term plan. We7 as a start up has gone through several iterations of its model, originally it worked, but now it has landed on a weak one this time around. Back to last.fm:
The stats side for me has been a major issue considering there are many types of things I listen to and it’s not all on one device. Let’s start with my iPhone, it’s great I use it everyday and play everything and anything on it. This is where the problem lies, since I bought into this ecosphere I now listen to an inordinate number of podcasts, it’s unbelievable and it’s as if I’m always trying to play catch up. Notably I’ve started dropping various subscriptions recently due to quibbles with personal preferences. Here’s the point, it really messes up my stats for audiscrobbles and I didn’t really want them to appear. It became more trouble than >> >> >> »
Tags: audio, audioscrobble, last.fm, music, podcasts, record, scrobble, track, vinyl
Standby!
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under Gadgets
A few weeks ago I won a £100 voucher thanks to Hotukdeals birthday celebrations for which I’m so grateful. Such a great spot of luck, but the problem was that it was for the now odd online store of Zavvi. After many hours of scanning their website for something worth a purchase or not out of stock, I found the lovely range of Flip video cameras. Meaning I only had to pay a third of the price for what I believe is such a great piece of kit. After a week or two late delivery, for which I expected from a near defunct retailer I revelled in its shinyness.
So I hope I can produce some lovely videos to share, whether they are from some of my long term projects or some live gig sets :D
Tags: Flip Video, Ultra HD
