What do you Listen-To?
by I just found out about a really cool website called Listen-To.com. You guys should definitely sign up for this! It will take our Song Of The Day postings to a new level!
It's a small invisible add-on for your mp3 player (winamp, or whatever) that keeps tracking of everything you listen to and allows you to see what you spend most of your time listening to. You can join groups and it will show the stats for the group, pretty interesting stuff. I've created an eZabel.com group, and I can invite each of you as you sign up.
The best thing is to check around for people who listen to the same stuff you do and see what other music they like, that way you can discover new stuff. Just let me know what name you sign up with on their site, and I'll invite you to the group!
Try it out! http://www.listen-to.com
Once you're signed up and logged in, request an invitation to our group!
(The setup is a little tricky.. you have to download and install the plugin, and then edit the .ini file which gets put into your winamp plugins folder and copy and paste the password from the download page into it. but then, that's it.)
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hmm. i like this idea. except, not with winamp 3. WMP with the visualizations shut off. this way, i can save some resources.
neato ian. i'll try when i get home.
SPYWARE I SAY!
spyware free... just a tiny plugin. if it kept track of what you listened to WITHOUT your knowledge, that'd be spyware. ;)
ditto! i don't need big brother tracking yet another aspect of my life
is that a reference from 1984?
i love utopian literature
Utopian literature is definetly my favorite. What are some other good works that fall under that topic because I'm running out. I've read Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, 1984..and I have Cats Cradle waiting to be read.
lord of the flies?
horrible evil book -hiss-
yeah, that book was great...."sucks to your asthmar". Hey how about a separate peace, and to kill a mockingbird? Those books really stand out in my mind too.
I renamed Lord of the Flies "Wizard, the Story of Naked Boys" as a freshmen. I never read a separate peace but now I just may have to run back to Barnes and Nobles and spend even more money. To Kill and Mockingbird has always been my most favorist book ever.
i don't really enjoy to kill a mockingbird. its good but i saw the movie, play, and read the book. good but not a favorite.
i don't like that book. very upsetting and stupid. dumb boys killed the innocent and nice ones.
how about fahrenheit 451? oh, and that one about meat packing...i cant think of the title and i never read it...but i hear its good and i think its about utopian society.
Ah, I read that and forgot about it! I enjoyed it and it made me very sad, burning books and all. The Jungle? Because that's just gross, or Slaughter House 5 or something like that?
yeah! Slaughter house 5...thats the one i was thinking of.
That's Kurt right? Yeah, he and I are on a first name basis but not really, I just didn't want to mess up his last name.
hahaha, yeah...i looked it up to get the spelling....its vonnegut...i probably would have "slaughtered" it...ouch, that pun was lame.
haahaa I love pun's! I think they can be so amazing, though not everyone always catches on.
ok i don't like where this conversation is going AT ALL.
You sound very emotional, what's wrong?
u would be correct
hehe, we were supposed to read that book at the last minute for my 11th grade english class. we had like 1 week left until we had to drop the books and study for exams. no one in our class read the whole thing. i didn't either. the teacher wanted us to read like 40 pages a night i think. i couldn't keep up, but hey i still passed the final.
You should read it now anyways, it's amazingly awe-some.
i just started reading it. very interesting ideas because many of them came true.
Did you really? I'm so happy now that I can talk to you about it! It really is just so amazing. You didn't borrow my copy did you? You better not have.
And to the whole 'came true' idea- In Junior Yr history my final project was to read three dystopia books (I picked 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange) and then write a paper talking about all three and which is the most likely to come true for the United States. It's insane because if I wasn't a witness and didn't know what was to come true in the near future, a combination of all those books is very likely. The government covers up a lot of stuff as it is and people are so ignorant, it would be very easy to just pretend we were in a war with another country for the economy's sake. Or genetic engineering so some people are dumb and do stupid-people jobs and other people are smart. Or crazy reform places.
i know! Thats why i love utopian litererature soo much, because it makes sense. If we didn't know that Jehovah was going to step in, i could totally see a brave new world happening...especially with all the genetic engineering that is going on. Its so scarey. boy am i glad we know the truth.
So how many votes do we have for an eZabel Book Club? (seriously.)
I'd be totally in! But..let's not make it like Oprah's where we all end up starring in a scary movie about dead ex-slave babies coming back to life to haunt our house a.k.a. Beloved.
wow i missed this but you know i count as 2 votes for my left hand and my right
yeah i don't remember seeing this but there was another new comment and then i saw that and i voted a yes!!
So has there been any follow-up on the ezabel book club? Its an interesting concept.
I'm gonna put it on as soon as I can find some time to set it up.
dystopia = really screwed up world
utopia = wonderful happy world
I used the phrase Dystopia in my essay on my summer reading of 1984 Sophmore year and my English teacher told me I could not use that because it wasn't a real word and too oxymoron-ish. Of course, she was a moron because I had been using the phrase "negative utopia" until I discovered "dystopia" on the back cover of my 1984 book.
webster's says it came into usage around 1950. so unless she was 100 years old, she's got no excuse. it's a valid english word. english is all about inventing words and its a very evolutionary language anyway.
Maybe she was trying to pull a 1984 and get rid of words? She wasn't too old but she resembled a mix between Moby Dick and a Pilgrim. She was also very into talking about sex and no matter what the work we were discussing was about, it really was about the sex.
that would be like starting to study the morning of armageddon, no?
lol yeah you can put it that way
ugh, i dunno. my brother uses winamp too and listens to music i don't prefer. might mess up my tallies
i updated my winamp to 2.9 and downloaded the program and changed the file they said to with my user name and that code....but its not working for me. Did i forget something?
are you listening to songs in winamp? it takes a minute or so to update the info on the site...
Also, this only works if your MP3s are properly tagged (ie have the Artist/Title info stored in the ID3 tag.)
i'm feeling like Eddie...CONFUS-ED!
did you do the notepad thing, and replace it with your screen name and the code they gave you?
Just as a side note here... once you've signed up and logged in on listen-to.com, you must then download and install the Plugin from the Plugins page. It's listed on the left side.
seriously, i'm not this computer illiterate...this HAS to be not working because of a firewall at work...thats the only thing it can be! what do i dooooooooooooo?
It _is_ working for you : ) It just takes about a minute or so into the song to update their site
nothing, nada, niente, niet.
haha yea, there was a problem w/ windows media player...so i d/led winamp and Court helped me..cuz apparently i AM computer illiterate.
haha, good. winamp is better anyway. (hopefully you installed 2.91!) now you just need the plugin from the listen-to site
yeah, she did get 2.91....i spent so much time trying to convince her of the superiority of winamp...it was hard though...that jahanna is a tough cookie to crack
hahahaha...jahanna is DEFINITELY some sort of cookie...what kind remains to be determined.
a fortune cookie? they may be easy to crack but man are they hard to open.
in my opinion, jahanna started out cracked...what a psycho
see, the thing is...i'm SO normal that is just FREAKS people out...they cant handle it..and label me as "cracked out"..ahh, the trials of being me.
HAHHAHAH courtney, i am having perhaps what can only be described as a day "worse than having to listen to spanish music at a spanish wedding", but that made me laugh heartily. thank you. from the very bottom of my heart.
yeah windows media player didn't work for me i think b/c i was running 98. even though i downloaded the newest version of WMP (9). there wasn't an option for the plug-ins. that wasn't good.
I have one of the coolest skins for WinAmp 3... if anyone likes Smallville, this is a must have for them, it is Lana Lang surrounded by Kryptonite Crystals. And for a little extra bonus you get some free pics of her :) This Skin used to be found at WB External Page but I dont see it now, maybe they are updating it!! That would be wicked awesome!
man, i LOVE smallvile....i couldn't find the download on there though.
Do you think there could be a way I could send you the Smallville skin I use on my computer? Would it be saved somewhere?
yeah, defitely...i'm going to mass. now...but when i get back i'll figure it out...and then i'll tell you and if you get a chance you can send it to me
Awesome I will wait until you get back!
i had the best britney spears one, but when I reinstalled my OS i lost it
haha matt you never shut up about htat britney skin
i loved it. and i could never find it again
it's probably whereever your personality went
ZING!