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*celebrates*
Nov. 28th, 2008 10:59 amI have the speedy internet back. How come I always desperately want to do bandwidth-heavy things when we've been throttled back to dialup?
Last.fm is giving me nothing but good music. I told them I like The Association and it gave me The Grass Roots (<3) and The Left Banke and The Lovin' Spoonful and Tommy James and the Shondelles and now The Fifth Dimension. And I've already told them I LOATHE The Association's song Windy and they'll never make me listen to it again. I'm still slightly cross with Last.fm for not being Pandora and very cross with Pandora for denying the existence of the rest of the world, but sometimes when I hit on the right thing to tell Last.fm I get exactly what I want to listen to.
Also now that I'm using it a bit more the Backstreet Boys will become just one of many things I have listened to in the past instead of the thing I listen to more than anything and that will be less embarrassing. I'm trying not to be ashamed of liking various sorts of music which may be more or less cool than other sorts, but at the same time I'm deliberately delaying posting so I can put something other than Chad & Jeremy in the box.
I don't know how to tell how much I'm allowed to listen to music online without chewing up all our data allowance. The boy said not to use Last.fm "too much", which in the absence of information I could only interpret as "at all", but it can't be that. I lack a frame of reference for understanding how much bandwidth things take in relation to how much we've got. Gigabytes aren't something I can hold in my hand.
Last.fm is giving me nothing but good music. I told them I like The Association and it gave me The Grass Roots (<3) and The Left Banke and The Lovin' Spoonful and Tommy James and the Shondelles and now The Fifth Dimension. And I've already told them I LOATHE The Association's song Windy and they'll never make me listen to it again. I'm still slightly cross with Last.fm for not being Pandora and very cross with Pandora for denying the existence of the rest of the world, but sometimes when I hit on the right thing to tell Last.fm I get exactly what I want to listen to.
Also now that I'm using it a bit more the Backstreet Boys will become just one of many things I have listened to in the past instead of the thing I listen to more than anything and that will be less embarrassing. I'm trying not to be ashamed of liking various sorts of music which may be more or less cool than other sorts, but at the same time I'm deliberately delaying posting so I can put something other than Chad & Jeremy in the box.
I don't know how to tell how much I'm allowed to listen to music online without chewing up all our data allowance. The boy said not to use Last.fm "too much", which in the absence of information I could only interpret as "at all", but it can't be that. I lack a frame of reference for understanding how much bandwidth things take in relation to how much we've got. Gigabytes aren't something I can hold in my hand.
