Category Archives: Music

iTunes Windows Discovers Blue

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iTunes Windows discovered the Blue iMac on the network and listed its shared library. (See snapshot.) So at the moment I am listening to Cat Stevens on the Dell laptop being served from the Blue Mac. The same 3-year-old iMac is hosting this site and the kids are currently playing the SIMS on it. Sharing only works on the same subnet since version 4.1 when Apple realized they had shipped (with 4.0) the ability to discover and broadcast tunes anywhere on the net. Within days, hacks were released that let you go across subnets (or anywhere on the internet.) I needed it because my network has two subnets: 1 wired 1 wireless.

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Now playing: Longer Boats by Cat Stevens

How Not To Get Sued by the RIAA

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The bottom line on this article is to not share files on your PC that have copyrights. If everyone decids to stop sharing, then there will be nothing to download.

What we need is to be able to have restricted sharing among a close circle of friends and family. That mimics the historical (and fair use) way we have shared music, and will keep the members of RIAA in plenty of dough.

EFF: How Not To Get Sued by the RIAA for File-sharing

iTunes Remembers … (and tells Finder.)

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Ted put together a collection of great tunes and gave it to us for Christmas. He called it “Merry Christmas from Ted.” In iTunes, you cannot see the track names because no CD has track names, and iTunes cannot identify this CD when talking to CDDB over the internet. (It is a unique CD.)

So you have to play Track 1, Track 2, etc. While playing them, I tried changing the track names and was surprised I could. So I editted the track names, artists, and album title. I then ejected the CD to see if iTunes would remember. It did. iTunes apparently is talking to the Finder, because the CD is now titled and all the track names are listed. Zoom in below to see the effect.

Another pleasant surprise from Apple. That’s why the Mac is so much fun… it keeps surprising you by doing what you would want, but not necessarily expect.

Merry Christmas from Ted

Now playing: Long Tall Texan by Lyle Lovett w Randy Newman from the album “Merry Christmas from Ted”

Now listening to…

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Kung-Log has an iTunes button that will go get whatever is currently playing on iTunes and create a URL… like this one…

Now listening to… Which Will from the album “Pink Moon” by Nick Drake

Nicole should post more blogs using her iMac and Kung-Log. Ted should get an iMac and listen to tunes with iTunes.

Thanks to Nicole for a great CD (and VW who created a Nick Drake revival.)

Farewell to Stromness

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A nice song to play at a wedding or funeral.

Farewell to Stromness

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Composer’s Note

The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.

Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1500), would be two miles from the uranium mine’s core, and the centre most threatened by pollution. Yesnaby is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie. — Max Davies