04 April 2010
Your Music?
05/04/10 11:03
Sometimes I get asked - what’s your music set up? OK, on this dull Bank Holiday Monday here’s how I listen.
First - Spotify
Just love it. It’s here on my laptop, background music, reasonable range of tracks, I can shut it down if the phone rings or someone comes on Skype.
Second - iTunes
We have all our CDs in iTunes so assuming the “house” PC is running I can access any of that. Of course this is what goes onto our iPods but I am listening less to my iPod these days. It’s down to making fewer train trips into London, nothing more than that.
Third - radio
If Laura’s here with me she enjoys a lot of current music and radio is a quick solution to that. So we listen to XFM over DAB on a Pure radio in The Hutch (that’s podServe’s global HQ). We also listen to Absolute but that’s mainly because it serves up tracks from my youth. Beyond that I find it terribly staid for a supposedly modern media station.
To be honest I frequently don’t listen to music, so BBC’s Radio 7 delivers various plays and comedy slots we enjoy for a change.
Four - Your Music
Yes, we do listen to your CDs. Partly its down to quality control but often its just to hear what someone else is enjoying. This is particularly true for classical music where there are so many options for different conductors, orchestras, soloists. These days without the range of High Street music stores where you can sample a classical album before you shell out £15 or £20 buying a classical CD on the strength of a 10 second sample in iTunes is crazy.
How’s it piped?
I can pretty much listen to any music, anywhere. For flexibility Spotify is hard to beat as it lives on my MacBook and the Mac Mini I use if I’m in the production unit. The mac Mini has a reasonable pair of powered speakers, OK for pop, acceptable at best for classical, and more than good for spoken voice.
In network terms each PC is linked wirelessly to the Apple Airport router, that takes care of most functions we need.
First - Spotify
Just love it. It’s here on my laptop, background music, reasonable range of tracks, I can shut it down if the phone rings or someone comes on Skype.
Second - iTunes
We have all our CDs in iTunes so assuming the “house” PC is running I can access any of that. Of course this is what goes onto our iPods but I am listening less to my iPod these days. It’s down to making fewer train trips into London, nothing more than that.
Third - radio
If Laura’s here with me she enjoys a lot of current music and radio is a quick solution to that. So we listen to XFM over DAB on a Pure radio in The Hutch (that’s podServe’s global HQ). We also listen to Absolute but that’s mainly because it serves up tracks from my youth. Beyond that I find it terribly staid for a supposedly modern media station.
To be honest I frequently don’t listen to music, so BBC’s Radio 7 delivers various plays and comedy slots we enjoy for a change.
Four - Your Music
Yes, we do listen to your CDs. Partly its down to quality control but often its just to hear what someone else is enjoying. This is particularly true for classical music where there are so many options for different conductors, orchestras, soloists. These days without the range of High Street music stores where you can sample a classical album before you shell out £15 or £20 buying a classical CD on the strength of a 10 second sample in iTunes is crazy.
How’s it piped?
I can pretty much listen to any music, anywhere. For flexibility Spotify is hard to beat as it lives on my MacBook and the Mac Mini I use if I’m in the production unit. The mac Mini has a reasonable pair of powered speakers, OK for pop, acceptable at best for classical, and more than good for spoken voice.
In network terms each PC is linked wirelessly to the Apple Airport router, that takes care of most functions we need.
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