Category: Media
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Spotify Needs The Unix Philosophy
For years, I was a die-hard Spotify user. I would use it every day, streamed it from my Echo, and had the account tied into everything. When I needed a gift for someone else, I would give them a Spotify gift card so that they could have Premium for a year. Spotify had pretty good…
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Finishing Peaky Blinders
About a week ago from the time of this writing (and publication will be later), I finally finished watching the television series Peaky Blinders. It may be surprising that someone who has a website that’s a play on the show’s title hadn’t actually finished watching it, but that’s my typical TV viewing pattern. I’ll get…
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Apple Music Monthly Replay
The end of each year has become a deluge of metrics from all of our favorite services, with everything from Spotify (which is the first one to do it that I’m aware of) to WakaTime telling us all about what we watched, listened, and worked on through the previous year. Not content to wait until…
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Prime Video: From Bad To Worse
When it comes to streaming services, Prime Video has historically been the bottom of the barrel for me. It’s something that I get access to as part of having a Prime membership (which in turn I mostly have so that I can order from Amazon Fresh… because going to the grocery store is so 2019.)…