15 bucks to only keep 10 songs per month? That's a bit lame.
15 bucks to only keep 10 songs per month? That's a bit lame.
New Zune software is also the shit. :rock
the zune pass thing is tempting, but I am sort of ideologically opposed to the Zune in general. the whole point of listening to recorded music is that you can just shut your eyes and focus on the goddamn music and totally disregard all the social bullshit etc. that surrounds it. that is why live shows suck and recorded music is great. and that is why the zune software with its social networking features and, like, fucking All Music Guide bios and publicity stills suspended in the air or whatever in the player when you play a track is an abomination. music should be about music, not hairstyles or photography or biography or high school cliques
buying music lolol
shutting your eyes, as you've suggested, would appear to solve your problem
i use none of the social features
The big problem is that MP3 players are structured around a paradigm — let's call it the Artist-Album-Song paradigm — that apparently works just dandy for commercial pop albums, but it pretty much a disaster for classical music.
For example, here's the hierarchy used to store and present music on MP3 players:
Artist: The Rolling Stones
-->Album: Exile on Main Street
---->Song: Rocks Off
---->Song: Rip this Joint
etc.
The Artist-Album hierarchy parallels the way in which CDs are shelved in a store, and songs are stored on the CD. But as you can easily confirm with a stroll through the Classical department ofyour local Tower Recordsyour local Virgin MegastoreJ&R Music World in New York City, the rest of us don't shop that way. (Or check out ArkivMusic.com, which more than any other site knows how to present classical music to the consumer.)
We prefer a hierarchy that looks more like this (and throughout this analysis I will use the term "Artist" to encompass individual performers, ensembles, and conductors with orchestras):
Composer: Franz Schubert
-->Composition: String Quintet in C Major
---->Artist: Cleveland Quartet plus Yo-Yo Ma
------>Movement: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
------>Movement: 2. Adagio
------>Movement: 3. Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto
------>Movement: 4. Allegretto
Notice the presence of the Composer, which is probably the major difference between classical music and commercial pop. In pop music, the composer is still extremely important — somebody always needs to write the music! — but is pretty much ignored by the music's consumers. (What infinitesimal percentage of Michael Jackson fans can actually name the songwriter behind "Thriller"?)
Notice the Artist is listed after the Composition but before the Movements. This hierarchy allows accessing the same Composition performed by different Artists.
And notice there's no Album in this hierarchy. The Album is a structural element in pop music, but an artifical construct in classical music. [...]
patel sent this to me in im :'( :'( :'(
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patel sent this to me in im :'( :'( :'(:lol
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if there was only a way to show how funny i found that cartoon without having to engage in the creepy groupthinki'm sure your genius will find a way--hopefully it won't be passive aggressive, like a little teenage bitch.
if there was only a way to show how funny i found that cartoon without having to engage in the creepy groupthink
i'm sure your genius will find a way--hopefully it won't be passive aggressive, like a little teenage bitch.
Too late, you're already creepy.
heaven forfend you try to, y'know, share in a moment
*Checks off groupthink and bandwagon*
If he says "circle-jerk" then I've got bingo.
*Checks off groupthink and bandwagon*
If he says "circle-jerk" then I've got bingo.
Where does "On my dick" fit into this game?
why does agreeing with internet people bug you so
I think you have it all wrong, Prole. Since Zune is a second class citizen amongst media players, I think it should embrace the contrarian nature of Saint Cornelius.
Imagine:
ZUNE
Join the anti-social.
My paranoia tells me what's what
I'm an asshole, and you're huge. We've all got our crosses to bear; mine gave me high blood pressure, yours gave you obesity.
I don't play nice, so how about we drop it?
The groupthink here is so pathetic. That garbage didn't even get a pity chuckle out of me.