Archives: 2009 June
Review: Google Voice
June 28th, 2009, 8 Comments
I got my Google Voice invitation over the weekend, and thought I’d share a bit about what it does and how well it works. The Basics The idea about Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral, which Google acquired) is this: lots of us have more than one phone, and it would be nice to have a single [...]
Tagging music… No, not like that
June 19th, 2009, 15 Comments
I’m thinking it would be great to be able to assign arbitrary tags to my music, like I do to my photos. For instance, I might tag the finale to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony like this: symphony beethoven loud choir german I can’t figure out how to Google for this sort of feature because, well, the [...]
Jacob and Music
June 16th, 2009, 3 Comments
Jacob has been getting into music lately. He really likes our digital piano (an oldish 88-key Roland model, complete with integrated floppy drive). He likes playing it a bit, but he likes experimenting with it more. It has some features where it can generate a beat or an accompanying tune in various keys, which he [...]
Review: Roku SoundBridge Radio
June 10th, 2009, 4 Comments
On the advice of several comments here, I bought a Roku SoundBridge Radio as a birthday gift for Terah. It arrived today, so here’s a first impressions review. The Hardware It’s very nice. A touch bigger than I expected, but still quite small. There’s a subwoofer aimed up at the back of it, which helps [...]
More Bumps on the Music Player Quest
June 10th, 2009, 7 Comments
So a few days ago, I wrote about my failure to find a good music player. Since then, I’ve made some discoveries. Amarok Version 1.4 can’t sort an iPod’s library by genre. Oh, and any version less than 2.x isn’t supported upstream anymore. Version 2 has mysteriously lost: the ability to see an iPod’s playlists, [...]
The Quest For A Decent Music Player
June 8th, 2009, 16 Comments
So I have an iPod, and I have several PCs. I have the 60GB iPod, which is enough to hold my entire music collection. I want to have my music there, and on the PCs, and sync it all together: if I rate something 4 stars one place, rate it 4 stars everywhere. If I [...]
Buying a SoundBridge Radio
June 6th, 2009, 6 Comments
A day or two ago, I asked for suggestions for a tabletop MP3 player. I got lots of good ideas — thanks! The two most common were the Roku SoundBridge Radio and the Nokia N800. I’ve ordered the SoundBridgeRadio. I spent some time looking over its website, and it really impressed me for several reasons: [...]
Looking for tabletop MP3 player
June 3rd, 2009, 12 Comments
We’re looking for an MP3 player for our kitchen. Ideally, it would be a standalone device that can browse and play music from our server using Wifi. It should have its own speakers and a reasonably small footprint. If it has an FM tuner, that’s a plus too. I’ve tried searching, and found things such [...]
