Comments on Tangential Convergence: Episode 17 - Searching For Evergreens

Krash, yeah they should probably be more concise.....

2009-08-31T00:31:02.264-04:00

Krash, yeah they should probably be more concise....

The next one is shorter, though that is because the SD card was full without my knowledge... Having a TV show to watch, BSG, in an hour helped last year. Perhaps I should look at my watch now and then...

and here I thought you guys were talking about &qu...

2009-08-30T22:46:40.391-04:00

and here I thought you guys were talking about "Canadian Bacon" (insert tongue-in-cheek here)...

In response to Dan: Jamendo and eMusic have been pretty good sources for the last year. I _hated_ iTunes (the app) on windows, so won't ever be buying music from Apple. Don't think there's a linux version of itunes, even if I wanted to try it where I live OS-wise now (ubuntu studio).

as to "shorter episodes": well... by the time I finished this one, I couldn't remember the 19 comments I wanted to make... whaddya think, Dave? Is it a memory problem? A.D.D.? or just way too much info in one shot? :)

Cheers!

@Rebecca, so glad to have you as a listener, and Y...

2009-08-26T08:29:24.138-04:00

@Rebecca, so glad to have you as a listener, and YES< ONLY THE LONLEY!!!

I miss John Candy movies.

The "serious" John Candy movie you were ...

2009-08-24T17:56:12.820-04:00

The "serious" John Candy movie you were thinking of is "Only The Lonely." Ally Sheedy plays the mortician he falls in love with, and Maureen O'Hara (who played the mother on the original Parent Trap) played his mother.

And yes, I started following the podcast after my visit to Algoma a few weeks back, when Ken and Robin were pitching it to the assembled (librarians from the Soo and North Bay who had come to get a demonstration of Evergreen.)

Jim, glad you liked it. We were all over the map,...

2009-08-09T20:58:23.766-04:00

Jim, glad you liked it. We were all over the map, but it was a good map, and no beer was spilled on the map...

Possibly the three best lines within a podcast eve...

2009-08-09T15:42:40.209-04:00

Possibly the three best lines within a podcast ever...
1) We have a wife down!
2) But I didn't spill my beer.
3) That's why I married her...

Hey Dan, I have never played with eMusic, it may ...

2009-08-07T13:28:31.452-04:00

Hey Dan,

I have never played with eMusic, it may be worth it. As I said, I DL the stuff I want to keep from iTunes, now that it is DRM free. I wish we had the amazon music store here.

I have also downloaded stuff from Jonathan Coulton from his website directly, great great stuff.

You are welcome back on any time!

Thanks for pulling this together, Dave! Here's...

2009-08-07T11:00:34.175-04:00

Thanks for pulling this together, Dave! Here's some errata and a few links for further information for the listeners:

I mentioned something about Georgia PINES handling tens of thousands of transactions per second; I was a little off (heh, I blame the beverages, not my complete lack of preparation for the show). Some real numbers are 10,000 transactions per hour (although that doesn't include searches, so maybe I wasn't that far off.

We got a little off track when we were discussing downloading music, and I should have mentioned that I have actually been downloading lots of music - but legally. Here are a few source of music that sanction try-before-buy and that give significant percentages of what you decide to pay directly to the artists:
* Magnatunes - I've been using this service for years
* Jamendo - this one is a bit newer to me but I've enjoyed Professor Kliq's work (shout-out to the Linux Outlaws podcast for making the introduction)

And I've had a subscription to EMusic for over a year, it has a bit more mainstream content than you'll find at the other services, but it's not as clear how much of a percentage goes to the artists.

Thanks again for having me on the show! It was a blast.