sound
May 8, 2008
Last week i made the decision that i am absolutely sick of iTunes. i used it because it fit the bill and did more than other programs i had been using and had more information visually available, even if i hated referencing the iTunes store for everything and i hated the limited browsing of podcasts (as is, i still don’t really like any of the podcast directories i’ve come across. I should look at MeFi and see if there’s a recommendation for something… otherwise i depend on you, kindred reader, to help me out).
Anyhow… at home I use Amarok. It makes me happy, and its happy with Ubuntu, which i have running on both machines. At work I am a slave to the windows, and while they started running it on windows, i’ve yet to really get behind that. I want light, i want something that is not taxing my resources. Instead I pulled foobar 2000, and it’s adorable and has a little alien icon… really that along with a super simple but functional display that i can skin in black makes me happy. Add to that some Doppler action for managing podcasts, and you have a happy happy eHawk. Unfortunately This American Life still doesn’t like downloading appropriately, but that’s fine… i can listen to it live online with little frustration.
Today I actually went and tweaked the equalizer settings for a music playlist, and it amazed me how high quality sound output makes music incredible, tear inducing excellent. I love music, i love totally filling my head with music. It’s delicious. It also drowns out the pounding of walls from construction here at work.
In case you’re wondering what’s playing right now? Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Relax, oh yeah. By the way, in that video the guy in the mustache and little cap cracks me up.