Re: Ninety7 LOFT battery base review: A $50 way to move your Google Home around the house

texburgher — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:25:07 -0000

It's not too hard to attach a Google Home to a wifi hotspot generated by your phone. Then put it in your car and you've got a... (puts on sunglasses) mobile Home.

Re: On Streaming Music, Virtual Libraries, and the Local Filesystem

texburgher — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:42:21 -0000

I read the email version of this several times, trying to figure out if I could make this work for me, but eventually made it an option of last (next) resort, because VLC as my iOS player just sounds too hard. Harder than going back to syncing playlists with my computer over wifi every so often. Which, as I recall, wasn't THAT big of a deal. I mean, life wasn't so bad back in the "I need to remember to put some new music on my phone before I go to the airport" years. That's the direction toward which I'm always tempted when something about the shit show that is iTunes blows up on me.

The main effect of Apple's terrible file-handling has been to halt my new music purchases, for two reasons. The first one is I don't like file quality that much. Yes, I believe I can hear a difference between their files and files I've ripped from CDs. The second reason is that not only are the files crappy, I don't trust that I'm actually buying them as opposed to de facto renting them. Which is maybe fine considering I don't like their quality - but then why would I sink money into this system? So I don't anymore, and that's kind of a shame.

Here's the other thing, though: Spotify, for all the grief it gets for its ugly UI, has always had good functionality and a better catalog than most everyone else out there. Apple Music might catch up. Maybe. Some day. But it's currently a distant competitor in most of the ways I care about today.

So despite the substandard options all around, I find myself increasingly pushed to the streaming model, because if I'm going to pay for music in any capacity, I want to pay the people that are up-front about being rental agents rather than sellers agents. I don't want to subscribe to a model that mixes the two until someone's figured out how to do it without degrading the quality of what I already own.

For now, it's Spotify for actual listening - especially on my phone - and iTunes on the desktop as a barely-used front end to the music files I still know I own, and every now and then want to hear in their less compressed glory if you can call it that. And that's a big "if".

Say, James, want to make a better music player?

Re: The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You - Restoration Roundtable

texburgher — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:54:16 -0000

I don't even begin to understand why this is controversial.

Re: 10 best Twitterers to follow for your soul, not your career

texburgher — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:40:30 -0000

That makes two of us, Jason!

(And I have to say, I'm honored. Thanks, Whitney!)

Re: http://katefeetie.tumblr.com/post/2616274331

texburgher — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:09:50 -0000

DAMN RIGHT IT'S PRONOUNCED "P'KAHN"
Fuck yeah, sister.

Re: http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/1660411946

texburgher — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:53:31 -0000