Plecebo

This is the exact kind of situation that made me begin making archival copies of my music ASAP, sometimes before I even listened to it. Someone lifted my book of music cd's from my car the other day, and I just noticed last night.

Lucky for me (how ironic) I made backups of them all, so I can replace them at the cost of burning new ones, however they won't have the great art, and they won't bet the CD's i've spent thousands of dollars collecting.

It happened one too many times, Amarok (Amarok) stopped playing my music. No good reason, just "too many errors". One last time it refused to play the one song I needed to hear right then. So it was time to switch. Pst... Listen (Listen), that is your queue.

I'm giving up form for function, the aesthetic for the operational. Its a tough choice, I've really loved Amarok, it was one of the first music players I scrobbled (My Last.fm profile) with. Now you can pick up scrobble integrated players at every turn.

First impressions, Listen just feels more like a Gnome app, which is not a surprise since Amarok has its roots so deep in the KDE world, and Listen is written in Python, which in my hobby coder world is my language of choice. We will have to see how things work out, I'm still hoping for something simple and elegant like foobar2000 (my all time favorite music player) or Songbird, and while I know I can run these via WINE, I'd rather support a native Linux option if I can.

Thanks again to @armyofmeat on twitter for sharing:

This is a great video. Pretty cute and original:

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Thanks to armyofmeat for sharing: http://twitter.com/ArmyOfMeat

This is why I will NEVER buy DRM'd music.
Via xkcd.com
http://xkcd.com/488/

A visual programing language produced by MIT called Processing produced this visual set to the music of Boards of Canada <

Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.