Last.fm

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I’m a fan of Last.fm internet radio and what I love most of this service is that it gets to know the user likes and dislikes and aligns its song proposition accordingly. I’ve now added to the sidebar the songs I recently marked as “loved” and here is a radio tailored on my favourite songs.

Enjoy!

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Moving in (a new pc)

Last week I switched to my new notebook, a Samsung NC20 (running fine so far, amazing battery capacity e portability!); of all the stuff to do when changing pc, migrating iTunes is by far the one I was most concerned about. I looked around for some solutions, I didn’t want to lose my playlists, podcasts and playback history, but I found only pages-long solutions involving 1/2 tools.

I solved my problem with a pragmatic, mechanic approach:

1. Set up iTunes in the new pc
2. Move iTunes directory (the one with the podcasts, videos, and config files) from the old pc to the new one, overwriting the one created by the installation
3. Edit, in the new iTunes directory, the file “iTunes Music Library.xml” and, with the find&replace command, replace the old (wrong) path of the old system with the new correct ones, pointing to your actual libraries.
   

   Upgrade of iTunes library path

4. Start iTunes, music library with playback history and podcasts should all be there; the only thing I had to do was to subscribe again to the podcasts (which were listed and contained already all audio files)

Forgive me for the very brief and undetailed explanation, if you have any comment or need further explanations let me know!

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iRun (2)

I don’t really run very much in this period but I always enjoy my training songs.

- Maximo Park – Apply some pressure

- Kula Shaker – S.O.S.

- Arctic Monkeys – The view from the afternoon

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iRun

Having a good playlist is critical for my runs/tranings, I so decided to start sharing those which I prefer most.
Enjoy!

Franz Ferdinand – Take me out
Kaiser Chiefs - Oh my god
Planet Funk – Paraffin

P.S. I used last.fm as song-sharing platform, let me know if there’s something better!

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