Fun

I’m still using the Yahoo Media Player. All I have to do is include a link to an MP3 file, and you can click to play it. For example, here’s Barenaked Ladies: Crazy ABCs. If you play it and like it, you can hit the Buy button on the player, and it’ll fire up an Amazon search using the link text and my Amazon affiliate id. The Yahoo Media Player folks think that purchase flow should be an integral part of posting music to the web.

The track in question is a favorite from Snacktime, the CD of which has been in our car player for a couple of weeks now. To link to the album, I used a more conventional means of helping you to Amazon (and helping myself at the same time). It was rather more laborious for me. There are yet other means, such as plugins, but I won’t go into them here.

The track is hosted at Dropbox. In case you’re wondering, yes I did have invites, but no I don’t have any left. Sorry.

One of my favorite albums of the 1980s is Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen (called Two Wheels Good in the USA). It was reissued this year, with the original 11 tracks remastered by the original producer, Thomas Dolby, and acoustic versions of 8 of those tracks by Paddy McAloon last year.

It’s incredible stuff. The two-song playlist below features the band playing “Desire As” followed by Paddy doing “Bonny.” But you should stream or buy the album so that you can hear Paddy’s acoustic version of “Desire As” and both versions of “When Love Breaks Down” and…

SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search

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Now playing: Prefab Sprout - Desire As (Acoustic Version)
via FoxyTunes

I was just playing around with Mixaloo…

Following some recent Seeqpodding, I wanted to check out the embedding. I can’t do that at my main blog, since WordPress.com does not allow embedding. So, let’s try it here, on the wild frontier of self-hosted WordPress.