http://blog.music4peter.com Peter Nelson's notes about music Mon, 05 May 2008 16:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For non-classical music the streaming subscription services, Rhapsody in particular, provide a rich source of content at a nearly adequate quality level. Recent improvements in the Sonos search tools make it easier than ever to find music even without a computer booted, and almost every popular song I could ever ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=8 Last spring iTunes announced they would start selling non-DRM'ed AAC's in addition to their DRM'ed (Digital Rights Managed) tracks A few months later Amazon.com followed suit, offering MP3's. This announcements was greeted by a combination of hope and skepticism – Hope: MP3’s are the only extant technology for playing our music ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=7 I recently bought a Sonos system to distribute our music through our house. Sonos is an amazing integration of wireless music distribution technology that will be the subject of some future entries on Music4Peter but I mention it because our Sonos package came with 30 day subscriptions to a pair ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=6 A sage once observed, “Give a man a reefer and he’ll be high for an afternoon; give him some seeds and a Growlight and he can kick his dealer back to Tijuana” No one owns anything anymore - we rent, we borrow, we pay through the nose every month to the ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=5 Let me first admit that I hadn't been paying attention. I knew Bela Fleck played banjo, and that I'd heard him on Folk Alley and on Folk On WGBH. Also he's appeared once in awhile on my David Grisman Pandora "station". So I guess I expected something folksy or blue-grassy ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=4 I'm choosing to start my new music blog by reprising a recent entry from my personal blog "Peterography", because it introduces my musical tastes, along with my curmudgeonly 'tude. In the last few decades popular music has splintered into ever narrower segments. In most big city markets you can tune to ... http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=3 Another music blog! Watch this space. Music4Peter is coming soon! http://blog.music4peter.com/?p=1