# How To Get Me To Post On Analog Industries About Your Product...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2008-12-10
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2008/12/how-to-get-me-to-post-on-analog-industries-about-your-product/

The easy way is to make something I buy and like. That's worked for several companies. The second most easy way is to be a tard. Allow me to submit Exhibit A to the jury:

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Chris -  
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I recently reached out to you about TuneUp for Mac as readers of \[\[blog name\]\] might be interested in hearing about what we?re doing here.  
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We?re releasing TuneUp?s #1 iTunes plug-in for Mac this Thursday (December 11th).  
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Yeah, you'll want to read that one closely. Anyhow, there you go, Brian. I have now pimped your [product](http://www.tuneupmedia.com/) for free. Enjoy.

**EDIT:** I should issue a mea culpa almost immediately. There is a third way, and that way is to send me something that you _think_ I might like, whether I can afford it or not, and hope for the best. This worked for [Purple.](http://www.purpleaudio.com/) I have a feeling that it would also work for SSL, but they haven't, as yet, taken the hint.

**EDIT 2 (Magis Mea Culpa):** Some higher-up at the company wrote and essentially said that Brian was, in fact, a tard, and they're actually very nice people. Note to all companies that make stuff that isn't gear or software for musicians that know what the fuck they're doing: please don't write me. Ever. About anything. Period.

## Comments (10)

**shamann** (2008-12-10):

But Chris, it fixes your music collection. Automagically.

**ZombieStomper** (2008-12-10):

For those of you who find that clicking copy and paste is too time consuming comes this automagical new product that will save you time like nothing else.*

*Actual time savings: 5 minutes over the course of 20 years

**Chris Randall** (2008-12-10):

Well, since I'm not some fucking douchebag, and thus don't have a "music collection" made up entirely of songs I downloaded on LimeWire, but rather a hard drive full of albums I purchased and the which are thus tagged correctly, I don't need any automagic, thanks.

I'd like to think that all of the readers of this site fall in to that category as well. If you don't, I really don't want to hear about it.

-CR

**afreshcupofjoe** (2008-12-10):

I cringe whenever I look at the organization of most people's ipods. Maybe they would find something like this useful. I spent an entire weekend ripping cds and editing ID3 tags when I got my first ipod. It was well worth it though. I wouldn't trust something like that to a software algorithm. Now it's backed up on 2 drives (all 50gb), so I will never have to do it again. (fingers crossed)

**mad ep** (2008-12-10):

I tend not to listen to mp3s very often- but when I do.. they are from albums I bought and I ripped from cd or purchased online. As as you pointed out- the tags are all proper.

My only ID3 messes are my own tracks that are in various stages of completion. I have about 17 "gnu-trk_v4"s in my iTunes... none of which are the same song at all. If there were a program that automagically read my brainwaves (as well as analyze all my project files) and sort all my mid-stage tracks into the correct groups and version orders, I would be impressed.

**MrMZ** (2008-12-10):

I'm confused. So I download this thing and use some special helmet to make it work? Where is the helmet page? It didn't say anywhere after the demonstration video.
Seems like a hassle to me. I bet the helmet is not cheap either.

**ForkyForkerson** (2008-12-10):

Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing a playlist that is about 30 gigs that has only about 2 complete albums with every song having some weird misspelling of the same band for each song. I think a better service would be an automagical bunch in the face.

**Heretic_D?** (2008-12-10):

I bought a copy for my helment, and their site duzznt zay they dun offer helmet wupport. I think they're practicin teh sux business, and should burn in hell if they're gonna treat their loyal customers lyk that.

**synthetic** (2008-12-10):

I ripped all of my CDs at 128k when I bought my first (30GB) iPod. They're almost to the point where I can consider re-ripping everything at 256k. But then I'll just need to do it a third time when they have some lossless system and a 500GB iPod.

But yeah, I'm even anal about the album covers. Except for classical music, I forgo the dumb watercolor of a tree and find a photo or painting of the composer.

**semtek** (2008-12-10):

Autotragically

(apologies, I couldn't resist it)