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Have your music collection wherever you have internet.

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edited October 2008 in Everything Else
I never heard about Lala.com before, but this news sounds awesome.
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  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    I smell a trap.
  • SailSail
    SimplifyMedia lets me listen all the audio files on my computer from my iPhone. What now?
  • NeitoNeito
    If you listen to your personal radio on Last.fm, it's every song you ever scrobbled. You don't get to pick the exact song to play, but it's close enough for me.
  • AprecheApreche
    Lala is poop. Sure, you can listen to any song once for free, that's nice. Then you can pay a mere 10 cents to get the song, sounds great. However, that ten cents merely lets you stream the song to your web browser whenever you want. You can't put it on an iPod or anything. You can pay even more money to download the mp3, but then why not just go to the Amazon mp3 store?
  • La Petit MortLa Petit Mort
    I use Pandora, not only do I listen to the music I love, but I discover new music.
  • NeitoNeito
    My problem with pandora is that half the artists I put in, it doesn't know what the fuck to do with.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    True, It's not that good with relatively obscure artists. Still, for most of my music needs, pandora does very well.
  • JoeLamerJoeLamer
    I just noticed an online recorder system that some Swedes are running. It's called Chilirec (www.chilirec.com) and if you are a net radio junkie (as I am) you might be interested to check it out. A fun system for work because in many corporations streaming media clients have been blocked out ;-) The channels as mostly the same you would see in Shoutcast.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited October 2008
    A fun system for work because in many corporations streaming media clients have been blocked out ;-)
    Is it not blocked by work?
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  • JoeLamerJoeLamer
    At least not in our company. It's pretty difficult to listen to any streaming radio channels, when you cannot get the clients to run on your computer. The web app Chilirec has works just nicely and with the ever growing library of music it's pretty easy to find something to listen to. The only downside of the embedded player is that you have to have one browser tab open if you want to listen to something.

    I haven't yet bothered to download any of the MP3 files from the server but I'll probably grab some good ones at some point.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    A fun system for work because in many corporations streaming media clients have been blocked out ;-)
    Is it not blocked by work?
    At least not in our company.
    I just arrived a few minutes ago and tried it. My work blocks it.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    New! Have your music collection wherever you are, even away from the internet!
  • ......
    New! Have your music collection wherever you are, even away from the internet!
    Not new you sarcast. Also, that costs money, and is still limited to 120GB. :)
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited October 2008
    New! Have your music collection wherever you are, even away from the internet!
    Not new you sarcast. Also, that costs money, and is still limited to 120GB. :)
    Has anyone managed to use any more than 80GB of just music? My music collection is about 15GB but I don't add any more than a few tracks at once and have few full albums.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • AprecheApreche
    Has anyone managed to use any more than 80GB of just music? My music collection is about 15GB but I don't add any more than a few tracks at once and have few full albums.
    I have more than 80G of music, but I have never found a need to carry around all of it at once. The key to getting a large collection like that is to download huge torrents. I downloaded a torrent back in the day that had 180+ Super Eurobeat albums. I also download entire discographies of popular artists. It's really easy to amass gigs and gigs of music when you aren't just cherry picking the hits.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    A fun system for work because in many corporations streaming media clients have been blocked out ;-)
    Is it not blocked by work?
    At least not in our company.
    I just arrived a few minutes ago and tried it. My work blocks it.
    Does anyone know of a music site that wouldn't be blocked by work?
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited October 2008
    One that doesn't feature the words "music" and "download" on the same page.
    Has anyone managed to use any more than 80GB of just music? My music collection is about 15GB but I don't add any more than a few tracks at once and have few full albums.
    I have more than 80G of music, but I have never found a need to carry around all of it at once. The key to getting a large collection like that is to download huge torrents. I downloaded a torrent back in the day that had 180+ Super Eurobeat albums. I also download entire discographies of popular artists. It's really easy to amass gigs and gigs of music when you aren't just cherry picking the hits.
    I think I'll keep to being picky. I wonder if it was feasible to fill that up with just iTunes or if the 160GB was mean just for people who pirate stuff. Oops, forgot about TV Shows.
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  • AprecheApreche
    Does anyone know of a music site that wouldn't be blocked by work?
    There's no way to know without knowing technical details about how your work blocks things. You'll just have to try every site until you find something.

    The easy solution is to just bring music on an iPod. If you get an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can connect to a wifi network that is nearby your work, and then use one of the apps for Pandora or Last.fm. You can even bring a portable AM/FM radio, I'm sure you have one. Another idea is to bring a laptop with wifi, and connect to a wireless network that is not your work's wireless. You live in B'more, so at worst you can go do that Sprint XOHM thing and get your laptop online that way from anywhere in the city.

    Just an aside. I refuse to work anywhere that blocks anything. I suggest others do the same.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Boss: "Joe.. What's that Pringles can doing on your desk"
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited October 2008
    I refuse to work anywhere that blocks anything. I suggest others do the same.
    "Hello? Washington Mutual? Yeah, well I just wanted to call to say that I won't be able to pay my mortgage this month because I'm still unemployed. Yeah, I still refuse to work anywhere that blocks any internet access. No, I haven't been able to find any employer that doesn't block the internet in some way. What's that? That's not a good excuse not to pay my mortgage? Hello?"
    Post edited by HungryJoe on
  • AprecheApreche
    I refuse to work anywhere that blocks anything. I suggest others do the same.
    "Hello? Washington Mutual? Yeah, well I just wanted to call to say that I won't be able to pay my mortgage this month because I'm still unemployed. Yeah, I still refuse to work anywhere that blocks any internet access. No, I haven't been able to find any employer that doesn't block the internet in some way. What's that? That's not a good excuse not to pay my mortgage? Hello?"
    If you are a salesperson, or some other typical office worker, then your odds of not having Internet filtration, or complete and utter blockage, are pretty low. In fact, that's the way it should be. If you don't need Internet access for your job, you shouldn't have it.

    However, I work in tech, so it's completely different. Unfiltered Internet is absolutely necessary for any job I would do. If a place is filtering Internet for the developers, it's not a good place to work.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    I refuse to work anywhere that blocks anything. I suggest others do the same.
    "Hello? Washington Mutual? Yeah, well I just wanted to call to say that I won't be able to pay my mortgage this month because I'm still unemployed. Yeah, I still refuse to work anywhere that blocks any internet access. No, I haven't been able to find any employer that doesn't block the internet in some way. What's that? That's not a good excuse not to pay my mortgage? Hello?"
    If you are a salesperson, or some other typical office worker, then your odds of not having Internet filtration, or complete and utter blockage, are pretty low. In fact, that's the way it should be. If you don't need Internet access for your job, you shouldn't have it.
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
  • RochelleRochelle
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    I have limited access. Pretty much anything in regards to gaming, video watching, picture uploading, and social networking is pretty much blocked.

    It sucks at times, however if it's something I really want to look at, I'll make sure to do that at home.

    I have a theory that someone in the IT security department has to be somewhat of a geek. For as long as I've worked here I've seen a several websites that were not blocked, then blocked, then unblocked. Some examples are Penny Arcade and most recently Board Game Geek. I'm happy they aren't blocked. Now, I just wish I could get Photobucket and Flickr unblocked, then I'll be happy. I don't think we'll ever get You Tube access, which is probably for the best.
  • RymRym
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    Neither work nor school ever has, with the sole exception of my previous job, which I quit.
  • AprecheApreche
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    Neither work nor school ever has, with the sole exception of my previous job, which I quit.
    Wow, yeah, it's true. Even when I was in high school the Internet access was unfiltered. We used to play MUDs, stream music, and do all sorts of other stupid crap in the labs in-between classes and such. If you looked at porn, you would probably get caught, but you would at least get a brief glimpse at nudity before you were suspended. Strangely enough, I don't think there were any incidents of anyone actually doing it. Think of that. Without any filtration whatsoever, a building full of 500+ high school kids, and not one of them ever tried to look at porn at school.
  • CremlianCremlian
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    Neither work nor school ever has, with the sole exception of my previous job, which I quit.
    Wow, yeah, it's true. Even when I was in high school the Internet access was unfiltered. We used to play MUDs, stream music, and do all sorts of other stupid crap in the labs in-between classes and such. If you looked at porn, you would probably get caught, but you would at least get a brief glimpse at nudity before you were suspended. Strangely enough, I don't think there were any incidents of anyone actually doing it. Think of that. Without any filtration whatsoever, a building full of 500+ high school kids, and not one of them ever tried to look at porn at school.
    That was also before they probably realized they needed to block things.

    I'm sure it's filtered now.
  • SailSail
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    School.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    How many people here have Internet access blocked by work or school?
    Neither work nor school ever has, with the sole exception of my previous job, which I quit.
    Wow, yeah, it's true. Even when I was in high school the Internet access was unfiltered. We used to play MUDs, stream music, and do all sorts of other stupid crap in the labs in-between classes and such. If you looked at porn, you would probably get caught, but you would at least get a brief glimpse at nudity before you were suspended. Strangely enough, I don't think there were any incidents of anyone actually doing it. Think of that. Without any filtration whatsoever, a building full of 500+ high school kids, and not one of them ever tried to look at porn at school.
    That was because we knew we weren't prevented from doing so. At that point, it was just the thing that "Do I wanna be the guy looking at porn in class?" After the access was filtered, however, now it was a game on how to beat the filter. It was more fun now and if you won, you got porn.
  • AprecheApreche
    That was because we knew we weren't prevented from doing so. At that point, it was just the thing that "Do I wanna be the guy looking at porn in class?" After the access was filtered, however, now it was a game on how to beat the filter. It was more fun now and if you won, you got porn.
    In other words, it's the classic reverse psychology. When an activity is permitted, it's only cool to do it if the activity itself is cool. Any prohibited activity, whether the activity itself is cool or not, suddenly becomes cool because doing anything prohibited is automatically awesome. Notice how the perception of bad behaviour in children increases right along with increased discipline? Where's the causality there?
  • Mr. EricMr. Eric
    I have to say, this website is fucking amazing. They have every album by Glenn Gould, and I can get all of them for 61 dollars. Then using my pirate software, I can play them and record them as Mp3's directly from my soundcard as they play. Sweet deal.
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