Things and stuff

The Amazon MP3 store is really great. I’ve only bought individual tracks from it so far for the most part as I’m still clinging to the idea that physical CDs are better, but in terms of convenience it’s so much easier than trying to track down MP3s online especially when I’m just looking for one song.

What I would like to see is some sort of public facing API or widgets for the MP3 store. Even just an XML feed of tracks/albums I’ve bought would be great. It would be added exposure for them (as if they need any more, look at me here!) and everyone could mock not only my horrible listening tastes (there’s always last.fm for that) but my horrible spending patterns as well!

I wrote a script that will download an entire concert hosted at the Live Music Archive, and re-encode it from FLAC/Shorten to MP3. It took me about an hour to write, but it made downloading the 20 Decemberists concerts they host a lot easier.

You can get the source here.

I accept no responsibility if you decide to run 200 instances of this on the same concert to bring down the Internet Archive. I’m just saying.