{"id":65,"date":"2006-12-30T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T11:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-12-30T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T11:36:34","slug":"all-the-cool-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2006\/12\/all-the-cool-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"“All the cool kids…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…download their music these days.” So I was told last night by a friend of mine and it has more than an element of truth to it – iTunes was swamped<\/a> by the increased demand after Christmas.<\/p>\n

DRM<\/a> doesn’t feature on a lot of people’s radar but maybe it should<\/a>? I guess the geeks have to be better at promoting the alternatives. The two obvious alternatives are eMusic<\/a> and Magnatune<\/a>, I haven’t used either – I haven’t bought much music recently (download or otherwise) but Em’s just got a new PC and it’s wired up to the stereo so I guess now is the time.<\/p>\n

I see on the blog of the CEO of Magnatune<\/a> that the Rhythmbox<\/a> music player now has the ability to buy Magnatunes tracks<\/a> – cool, but the new version of Rhythmbox isn’t included in Fedora yet, I guess we might have to wait for Fedora 7? Hope not!<\/p>\n

It’s been a good, if uneventful Christmas, still at my parents, done a little coding and last night met up with some old friends (Dave, Paul & Tanya), just before Christmas Adam came to visit. I’ve seen a lot of old faces but not everyone I’d like to have, I’m going to have to make sure I get in contact with everyone<\/p>\n

P.S. I’ve heard that if you’re using eMusic on Linux then eMusic-GNOME<\/a> is the slickest way to do it – will have to have a play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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