sebastian troen

3 more parts to my chat with DJ Champion, check it out:

Part 3:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMQtq70prI]

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I have a fever and the only prescription is… MORE COWBELL!!!

This isn’t really a post about new music so much, but I wanted to share my newest toy with you all.  My team here at ActiveState works on Facebook applications and to celebrate record days I went out and bought a cowbell… so now a record day is a Cowbell Day!!! Now I’m off to explore the studio space… baby!!

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPod. But when iTunes decides one day to stop ’seeing it’ and pushing me to reformat it, I lose my cool. I backed up the data on it manually but now it won’t reimport, so my 55GB collection is sitting on my hard drive in the stupid iTunes format and won’t go back on my device. So I’ve only got my most recent 10GB of music on there and i’ve lost all my playlists.

Really, really infuriating! Anyone know of any way I can recover my music back onto my device?

UPDATE 1: So after I posted about this problem, I discovered that iTunes will let you copy things back IF you click and drag the files VERY SLOWLY back to the iPod icon and HOLD IT there until it catches up and shows the files hovering over the iPod icon.  Then it MAY (if it feels like it) import the files… sometimes

So I’ve slowly been importing my music until today when it decided to crash completely. Hard drive kept spinning, kept rebooting, it appeared… fried!  The lovely Apple customer support agent was very helpful and wanted me to ship it back to get repaired… for $39.95 in shipping and handling. But wait a moment madame, I’m still within the 1 year warranty period.  Oh no, no, silly, free shipping is only covered in the first 160 days of the warranty, then you gotta cover the costs… dumbass! Okay, she didn’t actually say that… but COME ON!

And I had such high  hopes for you Apple…

Sigh.

So now I’m trying to import using ephPod but I think  it’s crashing my iPod.  One day very soon I can see myself just saying “Fuck It” and starting from scratch Read the rest of this entry »

A friend of mine sent me this video link. Her name’s Kate Nash and she has a real unique sound, reminding me a lot of when I came across Lily Allen on myspace a few years back. (Lily’s a fan too, btw, calling Kate the ‘next big thing’).

Check Kate out here; what do you think, is she the next big thing? Read the rest of this entry »