There’s a passage near the beginning of David Toop’s Haunted Weather (reviewed here) where he writes, “trying to listen to everything has almost destroyed my desire to listen to anything”. In a column in January’s issue of Word magazine, Paul Du Noyer wrote about the ubiquity of music and entertainment being almost totalitarian, and referred […]
Month: January 2006
Peer-to-peer recommendations coming to mobile
Proving that convergence is rapidly becoming a fait accompli, news of personalised radio on mobiles is supplemented by peer-to-peer recommendations on mobile devices, currently in prototype development through the Push!Music project in Gothenburg. The site encourages you to Imagine that you have a mobile device that can store and play back music files, for example […]
Personalised radio moves to mobile
An unavoidable usability limitation of mobile phones is that you can’t create a small, multi-purpose user interface that is well-suited to all the tasks asked of it: text entry, information browsing, taking photographs, playing games and even making calls. That’s why a phone will never have the ease of use for music applications that the […]
Playlist portability: comparative review
One thing leads to another and, when we saw Barb Jungr play just before Christmas, I got a copy of her Every Grain of Sand album of Bob Dylan covers, which triggered another bout of my recurrent mania for these cover versions. I went through all my old covers albums again, ripped my favourite versions […]