In How Pop Sounded Before It Popped, the NYT’s Judy Rosen brings the rest of the country into the secret knowledge of the fantastic greatness to be had online amongst the mp3 transcriptions of early recordings of popular tunes, a topic I have gabbled on about here previously.
Shecky chez Zero
On the occasion of receiving the Zero Boys Live 1984 Reunion DVD, Shecky waxes informative yet grandiloquent upon the topic of Hoosier punt rot. Go, implore the solvent.
Bodleiads
The Bodleian Library’s online collection of broadsheet ballads.
[via MoFi]
Stardust
Y2K posts The memory of love’s refrain at MetaFilter, wherein he has collected the most extensive set of links the world’s yet seen on the best-known song penned by one Hoagland Carmichael.
Speeding Mortorcycle
Daniel Johnston, back in the news, this time as NYT-dubbed ‘rising gallery star.’
Empythree
Pursuant to a project, some research.
The challenge: identify and install any needed software to support the Netgear MP101. The device requires a streaming server on the local network to connect to; the supplied-and-supported server is, of course, Windows-only.
Here’s a meticulous review which notes that as long as the device has the proper firmware, it supports playback from a variety of server software, such as the TwonkyVision UPnP MediaServer, which is available for Mac OS X.
The Allegro Media Server as well as the Slim Devices SlimServer also appear to meet my needs, although the interoperability of SlimServer and the MP101 is only inferred (and doubtful). I have previously installed SlimServer and it worked great, until it stopped working.
It also appears that there is an MP101 Yahoo Group.
The first challenge was to associate the device with my Airport; the device only supports 64-bit and 128-bit security and my ancient Airport is only 40-bit. I had to manually enter the appropriate hex key; even then it did not see any valid servers as it polled the DHCP local space only.
UPDATE: Total success. Using Allegro’s product, my Mac-hosted iTunes library is transparently visible to the MP101’s UPnP. However, for whatever reason, the version of the product they offer for download on their site is miscompiled and will not function as a stand-alone program; I had to track down a 1.0 version.
heel and toe
elbo.ws is an interesting music blog aggregator.
Money will get you through.. no, wait…
via FLOG: there’s a stop-motion Freak Brothers movie in production. Dear God.
Les Racines
The Roots Music Listening Room. [via MeFi, the Cartoonist (I think)].
Score
This, I think, should be enjoyable. It’s not clear if the device is Mac compatible, but it would only add to the fun if not.