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TGIOF : Jumping To The Tunes Of Poets Of The Fall

Published on November 18, 2011 in Miscel. 0 Comments

Past weekend Poets Of The Fall rocked Bangalore. A band that I had so grown fond of finally made their second visit to India after 4 years. And since it was not much crowded, we were able to make our way to the fourth row pretty easily. And they played all the songs I knew and I knew very few. In my defense, it’s been long since I was last in the campus.

Desire was the one I really wanted to listen. And they played it in acoustic style – no drums, only guitar. It was wonderful. Then came Roses, Locking Up The Sun and Sorry Go ‘Round. We were jumping and dancing excitedly to the melodious tunes always aware that the best were yet to come. And those were the last three – Late Goodbye, Carnival Of Rust and Lift – in that particular order.

We were all tired and exhausted after those 90 minutes – neck pain and sore throat proof enough that we had a great night.

Here’s a video I shot using my Galaxy S2 camera. Sounds mostly noise though.

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TGIOF: Poets Of The Fall In Bangalore

Published on November 12, 2011 in Miscel. 0 Comments

Yay!! Going to watch the Poets Of The Fall tomorrow evening. They’ll definitely play Carnival Of Rust. I hope they also play Lift and Desire.

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Vagalume – Last.fm Radio On Ubuntu Intrepid

Published on March 2, 2009 in Miscel. 0 Comments
Last.fm

Last.fm

I love the last.fm radio. Recently I made a transition from the windows operating system to the ubuntu intrepid. I love amarok too, but sadly it wasn’t able to play the last.fm radio. Upon googling around, I found that apparently last.fm had decomissioned their old protocol on the 31st of January, 2009 and thus amarok 1.4 wasn’t able to stream music anymore. I was disheartened. I began searching for alternative appliations to play the radio.

Lastfm client was the obvious choice. I used it to play radio in the windows environment. However, I met with another problem. Installed, account entered, proxy set – but it wasn’t able to play too. I have no idea what the problem is. It skips through a lot of songs before giving a connection error. Again failed !

Next I came across this Vagalume last.fm client. It has support for gnome environment. It installed and was pretty easy to configure. It has all the features of the official last.fm client, namely play all the radio stations (neighbours, loved tracks and personal library included), ban/love a track, edit tags for a track and also scrobble. The last.fm page now shows

Listening now using Vagalume – Tuned to Megadeth Radio

Yeah, you can select a radio based on a global artist tag/genre tag and also select tracks from your own lobrary filtered by the tag. Additionally, Vagalume also changes pidgin status to reflect which song you are listening to at the moment – pretty much all that I was looking for.

Installing Vagalume is easy too. All you have to do is

sudo apt-get install vagalume

The application installs. You will find the aplication in your Applications->Sounds & Video. Configure the settings, namely your username, password and proxy if any and get tuned into your favourite station.

Happy listening. :)

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Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

Published on January 21, 2009 in Miscel. 0 Comments

The theme song of the UK series Coupling is enchanting. The serial was great as well. One of my favorites. Definitely watch it if you haven’t done so already – and remember the UK version. The US version doesn’t even merit a mention. Included below is a teaser of the song. I would suggest the version of the song Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Mari Wilson.

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Angel of the Morning

Published on January 19, 2009 in Miscel. 0 Comments

There’ll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can’t bind your heart
And there’s no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I’m old enough to face the dawn

Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Then slowly turn away from me

Love It !!

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Ayreon — Love

Published on January 6, 2009 in Miscel. 0 Comments

My latest addiction :) … njoy the music

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Radio – Last Fm

Published on September 24, 2008 in Miscel. 0 Comments

I have been a member on Last.fm for quite some time now. I loved it right from the start. I like all kinds of statistics and last fm provided me those that I needed the most – my music listening habits.

Within a few weeks of signing up, I was frantically searching for sites where I could discover my musical taste and search for similar artists. I came across a page which displays the tag cloud of a user. It was here that I learnt my favourite genre – broadly metal, specifically progressive metal. Wow !

I made full use of last fm recommendations and links. Scanned for artists that would suit my taste, search for them on dc++ (the peer-to-peer we use inside the campus to share files) and try them out. The first three artists that I liked were Blind Guardian, Hammerfall and Helloween. Considering the fact that I had spent 3 months listening to just 3 artists, picking up 3 artists in a span of just 3 months was exhilarating.

The search hasn’t yet stopped. On the one hand I have diversified into rock and alternative, but also gone deeper into metal listening to symphonic metal, melodic death metal and a lot. At the moment my 500 GB hard disk has about 100 GB songs !!!

But I hadn’t realised the full potential of last fm until yesterday. Feeling bored of the playlists I already had, I wished if I knew any good radio. And then it struck me – last fm has an inbuilt radio. Wonderful !

Last Fm Radio

Last Fm Radio

And looking around a bit, I realised that the radio couldn’t have been much simpler. All you need to do is to enter any artist or tag name in the software and it’ll play the corresponding radio.

Last Fm Radio

Last Fm Radio

Great, isn’t it ? This was just what I wanted. Now I can tune into songs depending on my mood. Since examinations are going on at the moment, my radio has been playing symphonic metal all the time.

Last Fm Radio

Last Fm Radio

Simple and nice that the radio built into the software is, it still lacks an important feature – multiple tags. The only shortcoming is that you can specify only a single artist or tag at a time. I would rather have my radio playing me multiple tags at the same time, like symphonic metal AND progressive metal. Hopefully such a feature gets incorporated into the future launch of the client.

Till then, enjoy the radio. And yeah, even the radio songs get scrobbled.

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The Road Goes Ever On

Published on September 21, 2008 in Miscel. 0 Comments

This is a track from the Lord of the Rings Musical. I am sure you will like it.

The Road Goes On … Ever Ever On …

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