The New Mac Mini is Finally Here!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Terabyte home on 03. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I’ve been waiting on a Mac Mini to replace my sluggish and crash-prone Firefly/NSLU2 home music and file server, and Apple finally delivered the goods today, after leaving us in the lurch at Macworld 2009! I’ve placed my order for a base-model Mac Mini, and look forward to using Apple’s iPhone Remote with the Airport [...]
Free MP3 Downloads From Amazon!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 03. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Amazon.com Widgets
Amazon just surprised me with a $5 credit for their mp3 download store, and you can get one too!
It turns out that they’re running a promotion through Christmas – spend $25 on music CDs or electronics (in a single order) and you get a $5 credit for mp3 downloads. Sadly, it’s only one credit per customer…
But [...]
Amazon MP3 Friday 5
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know this will sound like an ad, but please don’t take it that way. I love Amazon’s selection of MP3 downloads – they’re DRM-free and uniformly cheaper than iTunes. And the company has a download app that integrates nicely with iTunes (unlike the eternally-borken Emusic manager).
I was surprised this morning with an email from [...]
No More CDs
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 17. Dec, 2007 | View Comments
So yesterday we finished ripping our entire CD collection – we’ve now completed our switch to digital music at home. It’s done.
It amuses me to think of the statistics:
We have 11,284 tracks stored, including 279 Christmas songs and 549 kids songs!
Most songs were ripped using LAME at the VBR3 setting in joint stereo
This music library [...]
