Internet Radio Sucks Syphilitic Donkey Dong
How the fuck am I supposed to avoid my life by losing myself in my work if I don't have a good soundtrack?
Last.fm: I now need to restart Spotify and Last.fm (in that order) after five or six songs. And it's now impossible to skip something when the YouTube selection is some fucked-up cell phone-recorded live performance of an artist who consistently does awful live performances. Anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing J.G. Thirwell (Foetus) live knows what I mean.
Spotify: No equivalent to Last.fm's randomly playing my library. The closest I get is playing it in alphabetical order or by length of song. It keeps dropping songs I've repeatedly added. Is there an upper limit to the number of songs you can have in your library? Not only do they have a shitload of ads, they have a shitload of ads featuring people using Auto-Tune, so I have to keep turning off my speakers. Upgrade? With what money?
Pandora: Sounds like a CD player on permanent skip. Plus huge gaps in their database of artists.
KEXP and other stations that still stream now that iTunes doesn't carry them: The CD-skipping effect isn't as bad as Pandora, but it's still bad. And more talented idiots are using Auto-Tune when they don't need to, so I have to turn off the speakers. But the taskbar doesn't show me the song title unless the cursor is on it, and that is delayed anyway, so I keep missing parts of other songs.
Satellite radio: It comes with my satellite TV service, so, radio on the TV. Not Internet radio, but close enough. In addition to being mostly genre-specific, and I like a lot of variety, I'm stuck with things like nostalgia and jazz stations because of the increasing use of fucking Auto-Tune.
What's my problem with Auto-Tune? It physically hurts. Fingernails on chalkboards don't bother me. Sirens don't bother me. Auto-Tune causes eardrum-shredding pain. It has to be an autism thing because my daughter and many of her friends have a similar reaction.
I don't understand how someone singing in an empty room with bad acoustics while failing to harmonize with Stephen Hawking is supposed to sound pleasant. Especially if they're singing off key, because it doesn't fix that. Why the fuck do people like Megan James (Purity Ring) and Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) use it? Their voices don't need any help.
Fucking #whitepeopleproblems #firstworldproblems
Last.fm: I now need to restart Spotify and Last.fm (in that order) after five or six songs. And it's now impossible to skip something when the YouTube selection is some fucked-up cell phone-recorded live performance of an artist who consistently does awful live performances. Anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing J.G. Thirwell (Foetus) live knows what I mean.
Spotify: No equivalent to Last.fm's randomly playing my library. The closest I get is playing it in alphabetical order or by length of song. It keeps dropping songs I've repeatedly added. Is there an upper limit to the number of songs you can have in your library? Not only do they have a shitload of ads, they have a shitload of ads featuring people using Auto-Tune, so I have to keep turning off my speakers. Upgrade? With what money?
Pandora: Sounds like a CD player on permanent skip. Plus huge gaps in their database of artists.
KEXP and other stations that still stream now that iTunes doesn't carry them: The CD-skipping effect isn't as bad as Pandora, but it's still bad. And more talented idiots are using Auto-Tune when they don't need to, so I have to turn off the speakers. But the taskbar doesn't show me the song title unless the cursor is on it, and that is delayed anyway, so I keep missing parts of other songs.
Satellite radio: It comes with my satellite TV service, so, radio on the TV. Not Internet radio, but close enough. In addition to being mostly genre-specific, and I like a lot of variety, I'm stuck with things like nostalgia and jazz stations because of the increasing use of fucking Auto-Tune.
What's my problem with Auto-Tune? It physically hurts. Fingernails on chalkboards don't bother me. Sirens don't bother me. Auto-Tune causes eardrum-shredding pain. It has to be an autism thing because my daughter and many of her friends have a similar reaction.
I don't understand how someone singing in an empty room with bad acoustics while failing to harmonize with Stephen Hawking is supposed to sound pleasant. Especially if they're singing off key, because it doesn't fix that. Why the fuck do people like Megan James (Purity Ring) and Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) use it? Their voices don't need any help.
Fucking #whitepeopleproblems #firstworldproblems
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Fip online radio seriously the most eclectic station ever with no commercials. just a sexy lady doing news in french the last 5 minutes of the hour.
French radio station FIP stream from their site!
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