The Skinny:
This morning I was listening to Hype Machine team’s “love feed” and I got the urge to drop something. Since I was at work, it was important that I could easily find some new tracks, which the Hype Machine took care of, and more importantly be able to get them back to my home machine. Luckily I had everything I needed right on my work pc. Compared to back in 2005 when it took me 2 days to put one of these together, solving problems like this and putting together a drop is now as easy as tying my shoes.
Songbird and Dropbox are a duo made for this job. The first thing I did was change my download directory in Songbird to one of my Dropbox directories. Then I spent the day listening to my favorite mp3 blogs using Songbird and every time I heard a song I liked I would just click download next to the track. The file would end up in my local Dropbox directory and was auto-synced up to Dropbox’s site. When I got home all I have to do was go to my home machine’s local Dropbox directory and all of the mp3′s I downloaded were waiting for me. I couldn’t have scripted it any better.
I love music but I think I love technology advances that make music hunting easier a whole lot more.
Enjoy.
Please support all of the great audio bloggers of the world. The sidebar lists some of my favorites. Without them, the new art of music discovery would never be this exciting and easy. If you like these tracks, click on the Artist’s name to explore the Hype Machine. You will find all you need to help support the artists and this crazy new world of music discovery.
| Kings Of Leon Crawl |
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| Joe Purdy Can’t Get It Right Today |
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| Brightblack Morning Light Hologram Buffalo |
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| Soko I Will Never Love You More |
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| Broken Social Scene Shampoo Suicide |
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| M.I.A. Paper Planes |
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| Spoon Don’t Make Me a Target |
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| The Black Lips Katrina |
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| Sufjan Stevens In the Words of the Governor |
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| State Bird I Saw The Light |
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| Dr. Dog The Ark |
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| Andrew Bird Plasticities |
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| Brazilian Girls Good Time |
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| Ryan Auffenberg Interstate |
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| The Mystery Jets Flakes |
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| Stream All Tracks |
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