I was getting a bit tired of manually updating my Twitter with what I was listening to on iTunes or my iPod and scrobbling to last.fm via TwittyTunes, so I wondered if there was some way around this!

After quite a while searching the net for some kind of plugin, I couldn’t really find anything, so I decided to utilise Twitterfeed to take the automation side of Twitting my recently plays!

So after logging into Twitterfeed with my OpenID I was off, first thing was to create a new feed and then fill in all the required info such as Twitter name etc and then to enter the rss feed I wanted to Twit.

Now it was a case of finding the feed I wanted to use, so I opened another browser tab to last.fm and found the feed for my recent played tracks and copied the URL, then entered it into the option on Twitterfeed, I opted for an hourly update and for five updates each time.

Once you have clicked Update you will be taken to your feeds page, it will take a little while before your feed is checked and goes live, but if everything is ok, you should see your scrobbles appearing on your Twitter, you can see what they look like on my Twitter.

In theory you should be able to do this with other last.fm feeds such as your recently loved tracks for example

Now it’s not very often them I do a meme, but this one grabbed my attention while over at SpocialSpark, so I thought I’d give it a go:

Instructions:

1. Open your MP3 player

2. Put it on shuffle

3. Press play

4. List down whichever song comes up

Here’s my soundtrack:

Opening Credits: The Arms of Orion by Prince

Waking up: The Old Ones Talk by Earth Songs

Falling in love: Fashion Bomb by Dave Stewart & The Spiritual Cowboys

Fight song: Mindset to Cycle by FC Kahuna

Break up song: The Last Unbroken Heart by Patti LaBelle and Bill Champlin

Making Up: Serpent Dream by Mike Oldfield

Life’s Okay: Let Down by Steadman

Mental Breakdown: Magic Mustard Machine by PNFA

Driving: Sheep by Pink Floyd

Flashbacks: Origin of Love by Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Happy Dance: Take by MRDC

Regret: Hot Thing by Prince

Final Battle: When The Day Goes Down by Eurythmics

Death Scene: Tides by LiSA & KMP

Final Credits: Confortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Wow there are some freaky answers there, does my iPod now something I Don’t

If your like me you will have a great collection of Vinyl albums, with a slight crackle, that you can’t get on tape, minidisc or CD probably due to the fact that the release has been deleted, so you can either put the album on a tape, but how many people have tapes in their cars these days, or you can convert your LP direct to digital format!

The LP Saver is an ideal piece of kit for doing this it plugs directly into your computer via the USB socket and your away.

The Turntable even comes with standard RCA cables to conect up to your standard sound system, now you can add your LPs to your iPod and even burn them onto CD to play in your car for example!

The LP Saver with play speeds of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 RPM so that should cover most peoples collection. All the necessary software comes with the turntable. In addition, not only can you convert your albums to MP3s or any other digital files, but the included software actually improves the quality of the recordings by eliminating some of the old pops, hisses and static they’ve acquired over the years. Finally, the tone arm returns to the armrest at the end of the record, just like old times.

Ok, so I know I love music, that was one of the main reasons for getting my original iPod a while back, but since updating to the new 120GB iPod Classic, it has given me the chance to get all my CDs onto one place, well almost I haven’t finished adding them yet

I’ve had my iPod shuffling today and it came to the point where I thought, my God when was the last time I listed to that!

At the moment I’m listening to the sixty minute epic Amarok by Mike Oldfield, it must of been at least sometime last year that I heard it last, it’s albums like that and the amazing Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream that got me into doing music myself, but I digress, I can’t believe that over the years of collecting CDs I have so many that I don’t really listen to and SHOULD do.

But now I’m putting them all on my iPod and using the shuffle option, it’s just great to hear those classics coming up such as the Relayer album by Yes and Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Hmmm, now I wonder how long it’s going to take before all my CDs and CD Singles are on my iPod

Now I’m not saying I’ve got all my CDs on my new iPod just yet, but I came across some tapes with some amazing album on such as Profiles by Nick Mason, so now I have the challenge of getting the tapes onto my iTunes, ok, so I could get some on CD, but, the Profiles album is not available on CD, I couldn’t find it except on Amazon for nearly £40, honestly £40.

So I have decided to copy the album onto a CD or MniDisc (MD’s are easier to edit) and then just transfer the CD onto iTunes via the computer, I’ve come up on the same problem with some of my old vinyl albums, yes kids many years ago people would put music on a piece of plastic and then put a gold coated diamond needle on it to play music.

The great thing about the vinyl is I can filter out some of the crackle through my PC, so some advantage there, but all this is time consuming, but for those rare (amazing) albums that record companies in their wisdom have decided to delete or not even bother re-releasing on CD, I’m afraid it’s the only way..

New iPod Classic 120GB

I upgraded from my 2nd generation 8GB iPod Nano to the new 120GB iPod Classic the other day, ok so 8GB sounded a lot at the time, but when you have a massive collection of CDs it just doesn’t cut it!

The iPod nano is great for the small collection, but the new 120GB iPod Classic is more for me, it’s boasts that you can fit 30,000 tracks and upto a massive 150 hours of video, but you have to take into consideration that the 30,000 tracks is at a 128kbps and an average of four minutes a track, I know I’ve used 14GB so far that’s with over 250 photos and 2600+ tracks, but some of the track are recorded in 256kbps (which is now what iTunes+ uses) and taking into consideration that some tracks are well over four minutes, such as the classic Yes album Relayer and a collection of Tangerine Dream albums where the tracks are mostly over ten minutes at least.

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