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The Beatles, Radiohead and Our Musical Tastes

February 26, 2008

Michelle has posted a great wrap up of Tim Westergren’s speech at Pandora’s Get Together here in Austin. Pandora sent me a number of reminders about the event, but I chose not to go, which is a shame because it sounds like it was fun.
Michelle’s post reminds me of the Ultimate Music Recommendation Smackdown [...]

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Where Should I Start?

January 9, 2008

As my themeword for 2008 is Explore (other people’s choices are interesting too), I am kicking off a new series: Where Should I Start. The premise is a simple one, ask or answer a question that starts with “If I wanted to [read/listen to/watch/learn about] something where should I start?”
There are so many [...]

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Live Earth

July 7, 2007

Okay, so I had absolutely no plans to watch any of the Live Earth concerts. My plan had been to work on the laptop and mining the DVR to catch up on the various programs I’ve recorded over the last six weeks, but then I saw this amazing performance by a giant group of drummers [...]

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Pandora on My Box

February 10, 2007

I’ve finally decided to give the Pandora music recommendation service a try and enjoying it thoroughly. The system is built upon the Music Genome Project, which assembled “literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome… [capturing] the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony [...]

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SSPL 1.2 Coming Soon

January 17, 2005

Just a quick note to let people know of the upcoming release of SilverSpider Play List 1.2. Changes include:

User-specified album covers: SSPL will check to see if the current album name/artist name combination is listed in the Various Artists file, and if it is, it will use the images that are specified. Images (small, [...]

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SilverSpider Play List 1.1 Released

December 29, 2004

Just a quick note to let everyone know that a new version of SilverSpider Play List is available.
Changes

The first big change is the ability to choose the size of the album cover, which was requested by two people on the same day! So, you can now use any of the following sizes:

Small (50 x [...]

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Happy Birthday Mr. Cohen

September 21, 2004

Image from The Leonard Cohen Files
Leonard Cohen, one of the best singer/songwriters celebrates his 70th birthday today. Come late October, he will release a new album, Dear Heather, adding it to an impressive discography. He is an inspiration to a wide array of musicians and artists, including Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, R.E.M., Tori [...]

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