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Kyle Matthews

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:51:47 +1300

Hi Dave,

Sorry just seen this. You can download the Munky Kramp songs from here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/czq4ocvffgtlq5e/AACAy8eZMj8oSPXv1SI4qCFoa?dl=0

Dave Tinning

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:28:22 +1300

Kyle, i have been looking for those songs on and off for years. I saw them open for faith no more when i was 16, bought the cassette, lost the cassette. I would like to get a copy. Cheers

bob daktari

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:30:15 +1300

improved heaps – though as a warning to those checking it out, at least once since I've been using it their updated version rendered it next to useless... then next update its well good... – its by no means a solution to all problems, but like match it can do…

Russell Brown

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:15:52 +1300

For fans of k-pop and Hong Kong comedy, Stephen Chow’s been Gangnam Style’d. Hope that link works for those outside China who might be interested.

It works very well. Still mystified :-)

Chris Waugh

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:57:13 +1300

For fans of k-pop and Hong Kong comedy, Stephen Chow's been Gangnam Style'd. Hope that link works for those outside China who might be interested.

Russell Brown

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:14:09 +1300

have you tried Tuneup (paid for product)?

http://www.tuneupmedia.com/

I used to use this heaps when I was on a mission to sort all my MP3s… not perfect by any means (especially for local fare, obviously)

I'm presuming it's improved since it first came out. I downloaded TuneUp via an ad…

Moz

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:29:09 +1300

Yes please :) Allegedly me email address should be visible to you in my profile now. But not to spammers.

bob daktari

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:47:51 +1300

have you tried Tuneup (paid for product)?

http://www.tuneupmedia.com/

I used to use this heaps when I was on a mission to sort all my MP3s… not perfect by any means (especially for local fare, obviously)

I managed to get thorough several thousand files before I got bored and move onto…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:01:46 +1300

I offered the relevant scans to flying nun since they seem to be missing artwork for the digital downloads they sell.
I hope they accepted, if they want to re-present the back catalogue, every little bit helps....

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:40:40 +1300

Munky Kramp, Lea Maalfrid… good luck find them anywhere else (I have other Demarnia Lloyd songs, but not from that band).

I posted about Munky Kramp on here four years ago and Peter Gorman emailed me with a link to his web site which had five Munky Kramp mp3s. The…

Paul Brislen

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:58:28 +1300

To echo Russell's comment: back it up.

I bought iTunes Match, it matched my music and then when I got a new iDevice told me it had loaded it up with music.

So far so good, except it hadn't. It gave me access to the music "in the cloud" (that…

Moz

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:29:27 +1300

I strongly suspect that's a matter of "when", not "if".

I fear that they will have the same problem that I do when it comes to actually getting the files, though.

Because I am somewhat anal about tagging and naming files, it's actually very easy for me to eliminate crap-p3's…

Russell Brown

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:56:36 +1300

I would be tempted by a similar service for lossless files, because I do still have a big pile of mp3s floating around.

I strongly suspect that's a matter of "when", not "if".

Moz

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:48:12 +1300

I'm sorry, lossless or nothing. I've been through too many cycles of upgrading lossy files and I'm over it. Yes, when sending stuff to my phone/phablet I repack it to mp3, but for archival storage the difference between 550GB of FLAC and 200GB of lossy stuff is about $20 these…

Russell Brown

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:53:11 +1300

That really is a tasty treat.

I haven't had time to listen to the whole mixtape, but I really hope his awesome remix of The Faints' 'The Geeks Were Right' is on it.

Virgin Magnetic Material is henceforth a Soundcloud follow.

Ethan Tucker

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:59:50 +1300

Snap gives me 560GB a month so I basically treat it as an unlimited account.

Five hundred and sixty? By the hammer of Thor!

Danielle

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:49:26 +1300

Pretty Lights

And so cheap! I think I may be calling on My Mother the Babysitter again...

Hebe

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 02:13:21 +1300

2am and can't sleep, and can't listen to this alluring array without waking the house, butr I'm looking forward to do doing so over the next few days. An appeal to the those-who-know-interesting-things from my Joey Ramone-obssessed 14-year-old: where to buy a Ramones t-shirt, good vintage or maybe a reprint,…

JacksonP

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:09:08 +1300

Hat tip to George Darroch for finding this tasty, intriguing Cure remix

Plus 1, fantastic remix.

That really is a tasty treat.

Russell Brown

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:20:51 +1300

Oops. Just realised I forgot to include this steaming, fuming, funky "re-vision" of John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep'?

JonathanM

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:45:49 +1300

3000 songs, 2-300 seconds a song, 32KB/second is 20-30 GB, so a reasonable dent if you are unfortunate enough to have a low data cap. Fortunately low data caps seem to be slowly but surely becoming a thing of the past with snap, orcon etc. all offering much larger data…

Paul Williams

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:12:14 +1300

Hat tip to George Darroch for finding this tasty, intriguing Cure remix

Plus 1, fantastic remix.

George Darroch

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:48:04 +1300

And about the music... these posts just keep filling me with new things. I look forward to Fridays now.

I'm so down with the new XX right now. Lovers' music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18jpR3npTk&feature=related

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:42:55 +1300

Pretty Lights? What about (The) Pretty Things?

George Darroch

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:34:51 +1300

Ah, that works. I pay by the hour here, so I've given to working out how long things will take, and going from there. I get about 360mb/h when traffic is light, less when everyone else is using the same connection.

We're waiting patiently for competition here. In 2002 they…

Edwin Smith

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:30:56 +1300

iTunes Match can replace the DRM-locked soundtracks to high-quality, DRM-free MP3s, but what about the protected video contents purchased from iTunes store? I stumbled upon an article which offers 4 free iTunes DRM removal programs, and i guess someone may interest in this.

RaggedJoe

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:16:16 +1300

And on other devices here one that’s well intentioned but likely to sink without trace.

I am missing something here. Mr Young has a long avowed dislike of CD's Ipod, MP3 etc. Blue Ray was his thing, now this. But he is also on record (not intended)as saying he doesn't…

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:55:45 +1300

... an admirable website called Techno Dads

There goes work for the rest of the afternoon. Brought to you by the letter E.

Russell Brown

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:40:38 +1300

How much of your data-cap did refreshing 3000 songs take?

I don't know, actually. Snap gives me 560GB a month so I basically treat it as an unlimited account.

George Darroch

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:25:47 +1300

We're at an interesting moment with the transfer to cloud-based services. Much of the world doesn't yet have the speed or bandwidth to support such things, and the assumption of both is becoming more pervasive.

How much of your data-cap did refreshing 3000 songs take?

Simon Honiss

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:11:19 +1300

Ah, yet another device, I really thought my 64gb ipad would solve that but once you pack some on movies and that TV series you’ve been meaning to watch, you’re down to dodgy rates to fit music on.

And on other devices here one that’s well intentioned but likely to…

Russell Brown

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:56:23 +1300

Initially I went with Match as I was travelling and wanted access to my entire library but it didn’t really work out the way I anticipated hotel broadband being what it is.

Yeah, that's a big problem right there. It's simpler to just pack an iPod Classic.

Simon Honiss

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:50:33 +1300

Have done the match thing as well and generally had reasonable results though I am fascinated by the way it will match only half an album and choose to upload the rest. Apparently it is on a song by song basis and they use song length as one of criteria…

Public Address

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:50:32 +1300

Discussion from blog post.