Music

A killer app for the iPhone

Earlier today I was driving in awful LA traffic, and I thought of a killer application for the iPhone, but first let me give you a bit of background.

At home, I've got an old server, that was given to me by an client, which permanently lies in a closet. It runs Windows XP and has all my files (music, pictures, videos, apps, etc). I have Hamachi running on it, and I share my music using iTunes, so that my girlfriend and I can listen to my music (80+ gb) from anywhere, using Hamachi and iTunes. I also have Orb installed so I can stream all my media to my phone.

- BAM! -

 Thats when I got the idea. Doesn't the iPhone run a stripped down version of OSX? Couldn't there be an application that does some sort of "VPNing" so that I could potentially stream any of my songs (or photos, videos, etc) to my iPhone from my iTunes at home?

I already do this on my smartphone, that runs over Cingular's Edge network (with an unlimited data plan). I've got a Cingular 3125 and I've got Orb on my server at home. Now, streaming media to a phone drains its battery pretty More >

Eternal Underground music sucks !

Eternal underground music sucks

What is it with the popular belief that if a band becomes commercially successful, they become a sell-out and that their music is not worth listening to anymore because millions of people now listen to it, and oh-God-forbid, it is played on the radio.

Yes, I know, Ive read the recent stories of radio DJ’s being payed of to play songs over and over, but does that really mean that if people listen to a song over and over, they are going to like it over time? Is the human race really that stupid?

Yes, songs are overplayed and many times killed by radio. Songs that you thought were good the first hundred times you heard them, but by the 500th time, you just change the station. Songs overplayed to the extent that if you listen to that song again, you might stab yourself with a dull knife (…and the reason is youuuuuuuuu…). Ok, now its in my head…where’s that knife…

I’m not talking about lip-synced pop music. I’m talking about mainstream rock (in its many variations). If the band you like has been an “underground” band for many years, they suck. Any band that tells you that they want More >