Comments on: A lifetime of lost playlists

A lifetime of lost playlists

feelinglistless — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:17:19 -0800

A lifetime of lost playlists Martin Belam offers a personal history of music formats and describing how he made playlists with each of them. I'd love for his conclusion to become a reality.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:30:47 -0800

I actually can't get some of his posts to show up on my screen - the page only displays the comments, and his actual essay is missing. (Including the conclusion.)

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:36:51 -0800

Oooh. It's working fine for me. I'm using Firefox 3 on XP, and there aren't any comments. Funny.

By: flashboy

flashboy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:39:09 -0800

It's a fascinating series of posts - I've been reading it for the past few weeks, and it gives a lovely personal overview of how the way we interact with music has changed. Belam's always good value, though.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:52:03 -0800

IE 7 isn't showing the main text, & neither is the Google Cache, even in text-only mode.

By: minifigs

minifigs — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:54:23 -0800

A Shazam/iTunes mashup would indeed be fantastic. Am I the only one that feels guilty when I turn off a song before it's fully over because it won't be counted as a play in itunes? Please tell me I'm not.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:02:06 -0800

Ok. Switching the ends of comments from --> to --!> makes it work again. There's a column on the right side containing a bio, & that shows up then too.

By: jinjo

jinjo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:04:38 -0800

You're not, minifigs.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:16:25 -0800

Shazam for the iphone: "Shazam lets you preview and buy the song through the iTunes store right on the phone." I left a comment with the html fix I mentioned.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:17:00 -0800

Ooh. This goes straight to my music-lovin' heart. Thank you for posting. I had no idea this blog existed, and now I get to explore it between tasks today. Yay. I wish we could make our own vinyl records easily and somewhat affordably, as they are harder to corrupt, persist for many more years, and if we end up in a non-digital world, turntables can be built by hand.

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:57:23 -0800

This guy needs a Squeezebox. iPod/iTunes works for the masses, but for this guy?

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:53 -0800

Good stuff. He also did a nice series about working in Reckless Records.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:25:45 -0800

Setting up a video playlist on Youtube is a decent start toward the celestial jukebox. I think editing them together might also be coming up soon, but that might be me daydreaming to the latest Girl Talk album.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:04:59 -0800

2005 - now: The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, I lol'ed.