So apple released itunes 8 last week or so and I decided to give it a try because of the new feature called Genius. At first I thought it was the kinna feature that was localized meaning that it worked kinna like the way itunes tries to level all the music’s volume by ANALYZING each song for volume. Well, I can tell you that the “genius” feature doesn’t do that, instead it reads the names of the songs and compares them against its apple itunes store database then it makes suggestions, while this features might seem great for people that own all their music, It doesn’t work for people that started digitizing their CD’s back in the day Real Player and Winamp were kings. I have about 20 gigs of music (and that’s a little compared to people that have 160 gigs ipod full of music) and about half that music is not in itunes, I have a lot of underground rap, many christian unsigned bands and not to mention all my Spanish music. Hopefully the Genius apple itunes feature will be turned into something that will work for any song.

I got tired of trying to listen to my music and to tell you the truth it is hard to find something I like anymore in my library so I decided to start all over again. I am backing up my whole library and I am going to kinna follow this tutorial by djsnack.com
I have all my music backed up and I have tons of space to grow a new music library from the old by taking it little by little I should be able to tag and select only the song I want in my library anymore. None of that I’ll take any crappy music into my library anymore.

I was looking for Itunes alternative and really there might be one but not too soon. Its called SongBird and it has everything that one would like in Itunes except that it not quite there yet. I do Like to listen to my music outside of itunes and for that I use VLC (sadly as of this writing I am not able to use themes/skins in the mac but hopefully I will in the future) But mainly I want to be able to understand my music by just going to the folder structure because many DJ programs like VirtualDJ, Scratch live etc use a folder structure for the music.

Online Radio: DISCOvering new music.

Pandora.com
last.fm
SoundClick.com

Back in the day I used to use mp3.com to look for new artist and now that site is dead and its not what it used to be. SoundClick.com is kinna like mp3.com used to be but it not near what it was. I remember recording music from the FM Radio in a casset and thinking it was the coolest thing. Now one can do the same with many online radio stations.

I was so frustrated because there was a song on a online radio station that I had listen to and I could not find to buy any where. I have a mac and most of the online radio recorders work only in windows. Just by googling “record online radio stations” you might find what you need but it takes a lot of time but don’t get frustrated just take your time and be patient. I stumble upon an application for the mac called pandorajam for the mac and it looks like it can do everything I want and its cheap.

well, I talked for a while. Any comments or questions?