cheese, wine & robots

My blog @ Icrontic hit front page today, yay:

I have a long history of not giving a damn about music organizers, online music stores, and especially any combination thereof. For 10+ years my digital music organization has consisted of Windows Explorer and right click > play in Winamp, and I’ve been reluctant to abandon the methods of obtaining music that have served me well: downloading music through not-so-legal channels and then supporting artists I like by buying their CD and ripping to disk. This has not only allowed me to listen to entire albums before spending my hard earned dough, but has also enabled me to keep copies of the music I love in something better than the encodings that sound like they’re being stepped on which most music stores offer.

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