After Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake, I got a call from a friend who's flying to Japan for 10 months and wanted to hang out one last night in the US. We hung out at the bar until closing and the staff hustled us out. 4 short intoxicated hours later I had to go to work.

Needless to day by the end of the work day I wasn't really looking forward to Tue 7 Aug – Street Dogs, The Tossers, Krum Bums event, but I'm very glad I forced myself to go.

I hadn't bought pre-ordered tickets…

It's been a bit of a busy week for me, birthdays, going away parties, and two back to back concerts have left me a little party'd out, but talk about some good music.

Monday was the ska event of the year here with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto and Against All Authority all playing in one night at Saltair.

My only gripe was how Saltair bleeds every dollar they can out of you. Tickets were $20, they added a $7 service fee onto that. So getting 4 tickets for me and my friends cost…

…or why SoundExchange violates RIAA’s description of artist rights.
(Sorry I watched Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid).

If you’re in the dark about everything mentioned in the title stick with me a second.
This all pertains to the recent hubbub about higher rates for webcasting royalties.

Some definitions you need to know.

SoundExhange (SE from here on out) is a royalty collection company that collects from web radio and satellite music on behalf of it’s registered artists. In itself, a very noble crusade to make sure artists are paid for broadcast of their music.

A "Black Box"…

Sorry this isn't really a journal, it's just a list of things I want fixed.
"These aren't the droids you're looking for"
"You can go about you buisness"
"Move along"

(Album Version) on wrong albums

Incorrect artists for the track:
incense and Peppermints

offline scrobbling

fjmsoftware said:
Success! :)

And since I finally managed to do what the topic title says, here's the "recipe", for posterity:

(Assumptions: you have a home computer that's properly connected to the Internet, you have the Last.FM client properly installed and you can scrobble everything you play in Winamp normally; you have another computer somewhere…

With EMI dropping DRM sales of EMI releases on iTunes have gone up proving DRM shackles labels more than it helps them. Also CD sales continue to fall as online music stores take their business. This creates the real possibility that if you're reading this you currently or will in the future purchase your music from iTunes.

Thus, you are a fool.

Even without DRM iTunes is still selling you overpriced crap. Not only are you lacking a High Quality lossless copy, you're lacking a physical backup if you lose your virtual copy. You also lose all the richness the…

I you came here from a link I'm sorry this is just a list I'm making of album versions that need to be fixed. Go read my other journals for something a little more interesting.

Rancid
Dropkick Murphys (live too)
Catch 22 - Dinosaur Sounds
misfits
Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV
deftones
Paris Hilton
Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong
INXS - The Greatest Hits
Bill Hicks
Common Rider
matchbox twenty - More Than You Think You Are
Zap Mama
Gym Class Heroes
Common Rider - This Is Unity Music
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles O.S.T.
Big City Rock - Big City Rock
The…

After you have you're music setup you'll have tons of ripped songs with possibly bad tags, no order, no structure. This is how I get things in order.

Imagine you just got home from the music store with 4 new CDs to add to your collection. It's basically a three phase process; there's a special folder next to "my music" called "new music" that holds three folders, one for each phase.

Every CD that passes through my hands gets ripped with EAC and LAME then the actual CD is stacked on a shelf and rarely touched again (I also find…

When I typed this up it came out longer than expected so I've split it into two parts. First is just my listening setup and why I do what I do. Everybody listens to music how they want, so this won't be much more than perhaps a way to get a few additional ideas on how to setup your music. Second is the actual processing and tagging of the music to add all the right info in, then putting it in the right place in my music library.

There are a lot of things to do with music and even…

…the ideas that will save "The Album", revolutionize the music industry, and bring back appreciation of good music. Or at least they would if I was the CEO of the media conglomerates and not a network tech making peanuts. ;)

There's a lot of discussion where music will go in the age of the iPod and the music download; over at the lala.com forums a question was posed about what the future album would be and that got me thinking, how can music regain the richness it had in the 50-60's, live in this modern world, but still exist in…

This isn't new news, it's been an issue for quite some time but that's what makes it so bad. However many people don't know this so I feel it's a good idea for a reminder.

Basically the Recording Industry Association of America is an organization that represents many labels that have become members. The RIAA isn't the labels themselves; they represent labels that think that the RIAA acts in their best interests. It's a very important distinction; much like a lawyer represents a client in a case since the client doesn't have the time or knowledge in law the lawyer…