The word KUT in Dutch

I believe a turntablist called DJ Ruff Kut found this out to his considerable disadvantage the first time he played a gig in Holland...

Peter

I used to use musicmatch and kind of liked it. I switched over to launch.com, which is now launch.yahoo.com. it was good until yahoo got a hold of it, and reduced the quality and added commercials. If you're piping through a stereo, anything less that 100kb is painful in my opinion.

i like knac.com, but can only take the heavy duty stuff for an hour or so at a time.

-t

The word KUT in Dutch...

FWIW, Cas_O: the radio station (always) pronounces it "Kay-You-Tee". But who's not to snigger at a good double-entendre?

ROFL, I can imagine!

Does anyone have experience with MusicMatch's Radio MX?

I suppose I might be biased, since I work at MusicMatch...but...

I really like Radio MX. I happen to be primary QA person for it, so I listen to it almost all day. That's pretty much the exclusive place where I learn about new music. And, I've found a LOT of great bands through the service.

It's programmed similar to a real radio station, with new adds, heavy rotation, gold hits, etc. The people that program all the stations are very knowledgeable in the particular field and do an awesome job with them. For example, the Dance Club station is programmed by a popular rave DJ. I happen to program the Movie Scores station (which I love).

As for Artist Match, we have an amazing recommendation engine which associates artists with similar artists. It's not as accurate on lesser known artists since we may not have enough play data to equate that artist with others, but this is only for a small percent of artists.

Hope I don't sound like an ad or something. I really do like our service and think it's worth it.

Anyone been longing for Ian Curtis to rise from the dead? Check out Interpol.

Oooh, good spot. What with those guys and Crystal Method, that's two really good bands I'd never have heard of except for this BBS.

Peter

mostly I don't get 'new' music... mainstream sux green goat cheese, and I even haven't finished ripping all my CD collection yet.

I have bought 4!! cds this year so far:

- that shakira cd
- the new springsteen album
- a sampler of scifi themes including stuff like the 2001 theme
- U2: under a blood red sky (because I am way to lazy to hook up something worthwile to rip decent quality from vinyl).

in the rare case that there actually IS nomething new that I care to have closer to my ears than, say, the distance earth<->moon I can always find somebody who has bought the latest sampler and rip the track.

who needs britney or brosis, anyways?

bye,
[L]

If you like sci-fi themes, I highly recommend the 4-disc set called "Sci-fi's Greatest Hits". It's put out by the Sci-Fi channel and includes all original material. I used numerous pieces for my Movie Scores station.

Here's a link to Vol. 1. You can get to the other three from there:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000G4T3/002-8211614-7448803

Hey, thanks for the word about Radio Paradise, I've now been finding myself listening to it a log...Any station that plays Big Head Todd and the Monsters is a good station in my book

I agree.. The station does rock with no commercials and like NPR, the announcer only comes on occasional to beg but at least it is unobtrusive.

Instead of downloading music, now I just walk into a store and rob the place at gunpoint, because it's okay to steal music now, right? lol

Actually I just ripped my entire collection of CD's onto my empeg, tagged them, then erased the songs I never listen to. I don't really download music alot anymore, so I'd say I just borrow a friend's cd if I really want to listen to a new song or I'll download it. Unfortunately I listen to alot of Sportstalk radio here in Dallas (the Ticket) and I don't really hear that much new music (My god I am turning into an old person!)

Oh well, I also listen to this thing they have Saturday nights from 9 or 10 pm to like 2 am where it's all a live mix from a night club here in dallas. Most of the time I have no idea who it is and it's different every week so i don't pay too much attention.