I couldn’t give up on my precious Grado SR-80s. Turns out the cable was only broken in three places; nothing a couple hours and a lot of electrical tape couldn’t fix. Now I can’t justify buying a replacement.

They really do sound amazing. If only they weren’t so fragile and difficult to transport. […]

My precious Grado SR-80 headphones died today. :( I hardly new thee.
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These headphones sounded really great, best I’ve ever owned. They should, for how much they cost. But they were designed so so so poorly. […]

I listen to MP3s in the car and it’s annoying when the volume isn’t normalized. I can’t be fumbling around with the tiny buttons on my MP3 player to adjust the volume while I’m driving. I found mp3gain and used it on a bunch of files and it appears to have worked. […]

It’s not often I’d call myself “excited” about a program, but MusicBrainz Picard is a really great program. It lets you tag MP3s by looking the up in an online database.
That’s very much like what a ton of other programs do, but the interface for this program is nice for doing a lot of […]

I’m still in the market for an MP3 player. At the time I got my 4 GB Muvo^2 it was way more than I needed. Now amazingly I have 12 GB of music on my hard drive. So I have to pick and choose what I take out with me, which sucks. […]

I tried to play a “custom radio station” in Amarok via last.fm today, and I get a message stating “This item is not available for streaming”. I did some googling and read that this is a problem that may have been fixed as of Amarok 1.4.6. I upgraded Amarok via Ubuntu’s backports and […]

I have a Creative Muvo^2 (image). I paid $250 for it two years ago. It’s 4 GB and has a tiny hard drive in it; it’s pretty thick, you can’t tell from that photo.
I toy with the idea of buying a new MP3 player sometimes. Nowadays they have all these […]

I went out with my sister recently and we got Weird Al’s new “CD” (Straight Outta Lynwood). I put “CD” in quotes because it’s actually not a CD, it’s a DualDisc. The great thing about DualDiscs is that they don’t play in CD players in your car. Oh wait, that’s not a […]

Let me just be the 57th person to blog that I like Amarok. A lot. Best audio player ever, and like many Linux users I’ve tried a lot. XMMS, BMP, MPD + lots of clients, Rhythmbox, Quod Libet, Banshee, some others I’m probably forgetting. Clearly Amarok is better than Winamp (especially […]

If you haven’t see Last.fm yet, you should check it out. You can listen to streaming music basically for free. If you put in the name of musicians you like, it will play things that it thinks are similar based on what other people listen to. It’s how I recently found Rammstein. […]