{"id":1683,"date":"2009-12-11T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-12-12T08:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:02:41","slug":"2009-in-review-best-music-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"2009 In Review: Best Music Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love music, just about all kinds of music (maybe excepting rap, most hip hop, and some jazz). I’ve had portable music players almost since they were invented, starting with a Sony Walkman, continuing through cd players, the iPod, and now my beloved iPhone. I’ve never “stolen” music; I’m happy to pay for my music. The advent of the iTunes store was fantastic. Now I could buy just the music I wanted without having to buy a whole album.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that ability seems to be a significant reason for the decline of the whole music industry. They couldn’t figure out how to capitalize on this ability and instead began suing their best customers, definitely a strategy to fail.<\/p>\n

Being able to make up my own playlists on iTunes an then seamlessly take them with me anywhere was a great move forward in technology. I further loved that Apple added to that the ability to rent or buy movies, and then TV shows. I don’t watch hardly any network TV and whenever I’m tempted, I download an episode of the program from iTunes, watch it, and am reminded once again why I don’t watch network TV.<\/p>\n

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Pandora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then came Pandora. I love Pandora. I wish there was a good way to pay Pandora so they definitely stay in business. Through Pandora I’ve discovered a whole lot of music that I would never have found otherwise.<\/p>\n

One example is a group called Gaelic Storm<\/a>. They’re a kind of a Los Angeles Celtic group. They got their break in the movie Titanic<\/em> as the third-class-entertaining “steerage band” (a movie I’ve never seen). I heard their The Devil Down Below<\/em> on Pandora and they went on my favorites list.<\/p>\n

Another Pandora find was Leaves’ Eyes<\/a><\/span>. Their Mot Fjerne Land<\/em> is another piece of music that always makes me smile when I hear it.<\/p>\n

Pandora is hands down my pick for “Best Music Find!”<\/p>\n

Ta ta for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love music, just about all kinds of music (maybe excepting rap, most hip hop, and some jazz). I’ve had portable music players almost since they were invented, starting with a Sony Walkman, continuing through cd players, the iPod, and now my beloved iPhone. I’ve never “stolen” music; I’m happy to pay for my music. … Continue reading 2009 In Review: Best Music Find<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-r9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}