How To Get Me To Post On Analog Industries About Your Product...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
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 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. 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.
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But Chris, it fixes your music collection. Automagically.
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Autotragically
(apologies, I couldn't resist it)
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