Darryl Collins
Darryl.Collins at coles.com.au
Wed Mar 4 18:44:25 CST 2009
Yeah, you could set up a proxy to sneak around it I am sure, but the whole principle of it pee'd me off so much. No wonder we all love those Russian music sites. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 11:28 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio They check your IP address? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Darryl Collins wrote: > I did, but it only works in the US... :-/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin > at Beach Access Software > Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 10:42 AM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio > > > Try Pandora. You can define your own stations. > > > Rocky Smolin > Beach Access Software > 858-259-4334 > www.e-z-mrp.com > www.bchacc.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:31 PM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio > > > > I used to use, love and pay for Lauchcast Plus, Yahoo's customised internet > radio. It worked by you rating songs, artists, genres etc and then it would > play you stuff based on that select and that others whom liked your choices > had chosen. It had no commercials, no DJ's, unlimited skipping and scalable > ratings - was brilliant and worked really really well. Naturally Yahoo > killed it off the other day and replaced it with CBS Radio - which is not > customisable, has lots of adverts and very limited skipping - Basically, it > is rubbish - don't even bother with it. > > Now I use Jango (www.jango.com) - which has a slightly annoying 'social > network' side to it (I loathe facebook so social networking is not my thing) > but you can ignore most of that without bother. So far has proven to be a > good subsitiute. > > Jango is fully customisable, free, no commercials, unlimited skipping, plays > in any browser, has a broad and varied music library - I found most of the > stuff I was interested in, and (so far) has been painless and fun to use. > > For portable music, I still love my iPod - not the best quality audio > reproduction around, but for sheer ease of use nothing comes close. > > my 2 cents > Cheers > Darryl > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 6:28 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio > > > A friend of mine just told me about Slacker internet radio. I have started > playing with it and kinda like it. They have a pretty expensive "mp3 > player" called G2 which allows you to send songs to the G2 that you hear > while listening on the "radio" to the MP3 and then play them away from your > desk. > > Does anyone out there use Slacker and / or the G2 player? Comments? > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential > information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this > e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not > waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your > responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. 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