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Category: Music

  • Freaky Friday Playlist April-15-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Signs That You Are A Music Geek

    At parties, you announce each song, the artists, the back-story and your opinion about the song. And that’s not it. You do it about 1.5 seconds into the song. When you come across a particularly obscure song, you ask the people around you to identify it, and shine your light of your brilliance after they…

  • High Fidelity – A Movie/Book Review

    You are probably not a music geek if you haven’t seen (the movie) or read (the book) High Fidelity. You are definitely not a music geek if you have seen or read High Fidelity and not enjoyed it. High Fidelity is the story of a single, insecure and rather pathetic man in his mid-30s who…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist April-01-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Why Music On The Cloud Does Not Make Sense

    In a previous post, I talked about why streaming music would never be the same as owning a physical copy of it. Since then, Amazon has launched it’s Cloud Player which takes perfectly good physical copies that you can listen to directly and let’s you stream it over the cloud. While I understand people streaming…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist April-01-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Music Locker Service – A Primer

    Amazon beat Apple and Google in the race to launch a music locker service by launching its Music Cloud Player for the web and Android. This is a primer for anyone who wants to understand what the fuss is all about. What is it? A place ‘in the cloud’ to store all your digital music.…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist March-25-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Why Streaming Music Is Not The Same As Owning It

    An acquaintance of mine asked me why anyone would ever buy music when there are multiple on-demand streaming services available in India for free. I can answer the question from my perspective: Quality – I am yet to see any form of streamed music that matches the quality of CD music. In India, internet service…

  • Music Wants To Be Free

    Pirates (distributors and consumers) often invoke Stewart Brands’ iconic phrase “Information wants to be free” to justify piracy. In a recent discussion with a friend, I argued that Brand used this powerful phrase to suggest that information should be easily available to everybody, not that it should be available free of cost. My friend’s counter-argument…