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  • Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers Band.

    It’s a fantastic song, the first time. Then I kept hearing it on Spotify and got sick of it. It has a repeating riff that’s just too much too often. I tried listening to it again just now, and, no not ready yet.

    The funny thing is the same thing happened with The Staunton Lick - Lemon Jelly a few years ago, in the same way. And it has a similar but distinct repetitive riff.

    More similar to you, there are a few songs I associate with old girlfriends, even if I liked them before bringing them into the relationship, they’re not the same any more.

    But on the other hand, my favorite songs from high school or college aren’t my favorite songs anymore either. Everything eventually changes.

    I have one friend who only listened to his favorite album a few times, because he never wanted to experience listening to it and not liking it any more. In some ways, I have to respect that. It’s kind of romantic and also very low stakes. But that’s not my style. Songs come and go. Music is still my favorite.












  • Yes for sure! But if you didn’t download executables or other files that could contain code, you were usually ok.

    The crazy thing about it is people got digital music from all kinds of sources back then - mix CDs, recordings, etc, and would create the title/artist/album tags by hand, so you’d see all kinds of wrong information.

    Like you could probably download “Dancing in the Moonlight - Van Morrison.mp3” on limewire, but really you’d be getting either “Moon Dance” by Van Morrison, “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Crimson, or rarely, something else entirely.








  • I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.

    I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

    The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

    I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.