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October 23, 2003

Brought to Tears

I've already said I thought iTunes was an absolutely amazing piece of software. I must say that today, using it, I felt absolutely giddy, as if what I was doing was everything that is good and wonderful and beautiful that can be experienced on a computer. The seemless integration of burning, ripping, listening, buying, and on and on and on. I swear, the designers of that programmer are artists. That program is a wonderful work of art, and should be hanging in every gallery across the world.

Today I stumbled across "celebrity playlists," where guys like Ben Fold's and Billy Corgan put down their current fav playlist. You also get to read why they like the song. Mind you, this all occurs inside of the iTunes program, while you're listening to music, while you're burning a CD. I've deleted MusicMatch. I'd delete Media Player simply because it can play mp3's. It shouldn't. It should just quit. The next version should remove any and all ability to play any music files. I only want it for divx, mpeg's, and dvd's.

Oh, did I mention that you can buy the playlists at a discounted rate? Like 9 bucks or something like that.

I can't even imagine the possibilities when this merges with blogging. Say I put a playlist up on my blog. One click and you can buy and download the whole thing for 9 bucks. It aint there yet, but I tellya, if they haven't thought of it yet, they will. The damn geniuses. Welcome to a whole new musical world.

Is this how artists will eventually make their money? One person buys one popular song, puts it on a playlist on their blog. Other folks buy it, and it rapidly disseminates around the world. Scary. Tantalizing. Whew.

I've had enough. I've gotta run over to Coptix. We're moving chattablogs to a new server.