Wednesday, July 14, 2010

[Zebra_Trucks] still trying to coordinate all these social networking tools...

I've been neglecting my blog because I've been juggling all these other things. But soon I'll get everything in place, and the world will be astonished. Anyway, here I be, moose nose and all:

Matt Love I liked a YouTube video -- Neil Young - Transformer Man http://youtu.be/eblFQppJfyg?a - 2 hours ago - via MySpace

Matt Love shared a video - 2 hours ago - via Facebook

Neil Young - Transformer Man
Transformer Man by Neil Young.

Matt Love posted [Zebra_Trucks] Fwd: Road Records is closing down on Saturday 24th July.........Sorry ! - 10 hours ago - via Blogger - Comment

I'll bet dozens of these are going out every day. These people...

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Matt Love Since I won't be able to create any new product until I get the swamp in the studio drained, I've made available my long out-of-print easy listening classic "So Hot For Matt" available for free download on Last.fm. Features my hit tune "Jeff Bridges of Madison County", three radically reworked Wimps tunes, ("Church", "She's Got What I Want", and "Don't Register". Special bonus: Xanadude remixes my song "Indigo." http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Love/So+Hot+For+Matt - 1 day ago - via Facebook

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Listen free to Matt Love – So Hot for Matt (Apple, Dabc's and more). 17 tracks (53:37). Matt Love is one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time, a platinum selling, Grammy award winning singer songwriter, well versed in the stylistic tropes of both rock and roll music. When Love dances, it loo...

Matt Love and Boris Vasylyshyn are now friends - 1 day ago

Matt Love Resupplied with 2 (count 'em) new Zooms, purchased from the indifferent and inattentive (but well stocked) folks at Axe Music. However, work on my next project, "Three Croissant Breakfast" will have to wait, it's been raining to put the Pacific Northwest to shame, and the famous Egrigious Studio has been flooded. I'm cleaning up and assessing the damage. - 1 day ago - via Facebook

Matt Love shared a video - 1 day ago - via Facebook

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Some Community toca "John Doe" na session do programa Poploaded, apresentado por Lucio Ribeiro e Fabio Massari. Veja mais vídeos com suas bandas favoritas em http://www.ig.com.br/tvig

Matt Love I liked a YouTube video -- Some Community - John Doe http://youtu.be/Gs6GQ4GuHD8?a - 1 day ago - via MySpace

Matt Love connected WordPress to Windows Live - 2 days ago

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[Zebra_Trucks] Fwd: Road Records is closing down on Saturday 24th July.........Sorry !

I'll bet dozens of these are going out every day.

These people sold me the wonderfulness that is "Days Are What We Live In" by Jimmy Behan (http://www.myspace.com/jimmybehan).

Sad, sad, sad.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Road Records <info@roadrecs.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Road Records is closing down on Saturday 24th July.........Sorry !
To:

How do I begin a piece like this, without repeating everything I wrote nearly two years ago now.

I suppose I would have to say its with great sadness to inform you we are finally closing the doors of Road Records.

Its been a difficult two years since we first faced the prospects of closure and we have literally worked night and day to try and see if we could save the shop and make it a viable business again. The current economic situation in this country added to the many problems we faced in the past have finally caught up with us and we can no longer sustain this little shop.

This time, I am sad to say, there is no alternative for us, we have literally tried everything in our powers to keep this place operating and nothing has worked for us. It hasn't been an easy decision to make, if anything its even more difficult than two years ago, we have had amazing support from people but nothing we do seems to work anymore.

With debts beginning to build again Julie and myself have finally decided that we cannot take any more risks personally and before things get any worse we will have to finally walk away from the shop for the last time.

I have to say I still have no regrets about the last 13 years, its been a real blast and a pleasure to be here over the years. We have met some amazing people and have become friends with some truly amazing bands. The level of support we have received since last year has been truly mindblowing but so much has changed economically since then that its just not possible to sustain such a small record shop like this anymore.

I am not going to give out about the music business this time around, its just one of those things and we have finally come to a stage where I think the days of the small indie store are numbered. It's sad to have to admit that but this time I think its true, we can't blame digital sales, illegal downloading etc, the world is a changing place and I can't see any room in it for kooky little indie stores like ourselves.

We will be starting our closing down sale this Saturday [17^th July] and everything will be on sale at a 25% reduction. We will be open for just one more week after that with the final day being Saturday 24^th of July. Literally everything will be going on sale so if you want to pick up a cheap stereo, cash register or stapler, then do drop in.

We would both like to thank each and everyone of you for your support over the years, maybe we will catch up at some point in the future.

We would also like to thank all our wonderful staff from the last 14 years, in person they are – Dylan, Jonny, Jimmy, Gib, Colm, John, Chip and Aengus.

As for what we will do next, the honest answer is we really don't know, hopefully we can pay off any debts we have and then at least we have a beautiful little baby boy to try and put a smile back on our faces.

Thanks & Adios

Dave and Julie

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

[Zebra_Trucks] A satisfied customer

Look what this lady said about our band (http://www.myspace.com/antitrusts). I'd say this is the most positive review I've ever had for anything I've ever done. Cool.

Chiara

29 May 2010 14:05

Hi Antitrusts, May you always have stables of horses to service your needs. Please let me hear more of that wonderful sound. Polished rock candy comes ever to mind when thinking of you. You are dressed with filaments and people take pains to make you fully incandescent this evening. You ever remind me of the enigma of happy thoughts I once forgot. I relentlessly desire cotton candy lollipops. Your hair sends forth a sheen remniscent of golden sunlight winding through shadows. Your eyes show as many deep and full shades of fire as a thousand supernovas. Your sweet voice is like the application of aloe vera upon a sunburnt back. Transistors bridge where your vanity would never go. Your cleverness helps me breathe without the need of oxygen. If I could have just one wish, it would be to wake up to your songs in the morning. Wood nymphs sprinkle your path with rose petals while you dance and prowl in the sequined moonlight with leftover cupcake sprinkles. Your reflections bring happiness that rends naked glass.

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[Zebra_Trucks] Re: [Ticket#2010053110000529] Windows Media Player scrobbler fail.

You know I've done all that. It seems shortsighted to leave all the scrobbling to 3rd party programs designed by hobbyists. And to leave your tech support to snarky users.

Have you actually looked at the forum section of your website? There are pages and pages of questions without a single response. I didn't see anything addressing my particular issue (surely it must be one fo the most common issues that last.fm users have), but I went back and looked again, and I found this. The user did everything right, and it still didn't work.

Dan Kine finally shuts down the discussion with this helpful tip: "use a decent player."

Boy, that's what I call tech support. Really useful advice.

I went through all this before with Sonar. Now I use Reaper and I like it much better. Is this really what you want? For people to go elsewhere? My understanding is there's lots of other places to go.

Windows Media Player Scrobbler works only once before it stops scrobbling.

- SMStephMars1 said...
- User
- 11 May 2010, 15:19
Windows Media Player Scrobbler works only once before it stops scrobbling.

I installed the Windows Media Player Scrobbler, but it will only work once, as in, it works as long as my computer is on, but once I restart my computer, the scrobbling program doesn't scrobble.

I've turned scrobbling off and on, I've restarted both the scrobbler program and WMP, but so far the only solution I've found is to just uninstall the entire scrobbler program and reinstall it, and even that doesn't work sometimes.

[quote][b][user]SMStephMars1[/user][/b] said: I installed the Windows Media Player Scrobbler, but it will only work once, as in, it works as long as my computer is on, but once I restart my computer, the scrobbling program doesn't scrobble. I've turned scrobbling off and on, I've restarted both the scrobbler program and WMP, but so far the only solution I've found is to just uninstall the entire scrobbler program and reinstall it, and even that doesn't work sometimes.[/quote]

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- Jester-NL said...
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- 11 May 2010, 23:30
From the Problems scrobbling sticky:Are the plugins enabled within the media player?
Sometimes, you may find that plugins are installed, but aren't scrobbling due to them being disabled. As such there are some player specific items you will need to check.
Windows Media Player: Open up WMP, and go to Tools > Plug-Ins > Options. In the new pop-up window, select "Background" in the list to the left, and then ensure that the checkbox to the left of "Last.fm Plugin" has a tick in it.
Windows Media Player 11 (and 12): Go to the menu Now Playing > Plug-ins > Other. Please ensure that the checkbox next to "Last.fm Plugin" is ticked.

Remember to say "thank you" for the things you haven't had
System Status (indication) - Problems scrobbling FAQ - The Last.FM FAQ
Do you spot incorrect auto-corrections? You can flag them at the artist/track-page.

[quote][b][user]Jester-NL[/user][/b] said: From the [url=<a href="http://www.last.fm/forum/34905/_/168488]Problems">http://www.last.fm/forum/34905/_/168488]Problems</a> scrobbling sticky[/url]:[quote][b][color=green]Are the plugins enabled within the media player?[/color][/b] Sometimes, you may find that plugins are installed, but aren't scrobbling due to them being disabled. As such there are some player specific items you will need to check. [b][color=purple]Windows Media Player[/color][/b]: Open up WMP, and go to Tools > Plug-Ins > Options. In the new pop-up window, select "Background" in the list to the left, and then ensure that the checkbox to the left of "Last.fm Plugin" has a tick in it. [b][color=purple]Windows Media Player 11 (and 12)[/color][/b]: Go to the menu Now Playing > Plug-ins > Other. Please ensure that the checkbox next to "Last.fm Plugin" is ticked.[/quote]

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- SMStephMars1 said...
- User
- 12 May 2010, 16:02
I did that, and now the Scrobbling program is actually showing the songs I'm playing, however, last.fm isn't showing them...

[quote][b][user]SMStephMars1[/user][/b] said: I did that, and now the Scrobbling program is actually showing the songs I'm playing, however, <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a> isn't showing them...[/quote]

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- explosion_ said...
- User
- 31 May 2010, 10:07
I have the same problem

I've had the same problem for over a year now.. It seems to have started randomly, as it used to work for a few months before it stopped scrobbling. Now, it doesn't even scrobble when I reinstall the application.

[quote][b][user]explosion_[/user][/b] said: I've had the same problem for over a year now.. It seems to have started randomly, as it used to work for a few months before it stopped scrobbling. Now, it doesn't even scrobble when I reinstall the application.[/quote]

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- dankine said...
- Subscriber
- 31 May 2010, 10:10
use a decent player

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Last.fm Support <support@last.fm> wrote:

Hi,

Unfortunately we can't offer any support for other website problems anymore.
But you should be able to find an answer to your problem in our forums as well
as our FAQ: http://www.last.fm/help/faq/

Our English support forums:
Website Support: http://www.last.fm/forum/21713
Scrobbler Support: http://www.last.fm/forum/34905

Regards,
The Last.fm Support Team

matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear various Last.fm email addresses (none of them being the one that I
> really want - "support@last.fm"):
>
> I think it's a MISTAKE to make it so hard to get tech support. This is so
> often the case when a website goes corporate.
>
> My problem is simple. When I play something on Windows Media Player on a
> Vista platform (a pretty standard approach to playing music on one's
> computer, I would think) it does't scrobble. I thought I might simply
> reinstall the plug-in.
>
> Boy, have things become complicated since the last time I checked in! I
> went to the "build" pages dedicated to scrobblers, and found three pages for
> all kinds of esoteric (to an old fart like me, anyway) devices and systems,
> but I didn't see one download that would work for Windows Media Player.
> There was a link for one that would turn Windows Media Player into a

> last.fmplayer - I thought it might do what I wanted it to do, but the

> link was no
> good.
>
> The forums look to be pretty useless - lots of questions, and not one
> response that I could see. Anyway, I don't want a peer-to-peer dialogue, I
> want some good old fashioned tech support.
>
> I was going to start paying for the last.fm service - I hear there's lots of
> new things on the horizon, but it's brand loyalty and nostalgia as much as
> anything... you introduced me to tons of new music, and even to some dear,
> dear freinds (I'm in a band with one of them now). But the whole site is
> getting harder to navigate through, and when nothing I scrobble shows up on
> it, it's more and more alienating and impersonal. I want to be loyal to
> you, but you have to be loyal to your users, too.
>
> Yours,
>
> Matt Love
>
> PS: what the heck, I'll add "support@last.fm" on the slim chance it exists,
> even though you don't advertise it.
> Contacting Us Support Questions
>

> Please visit our Help Section <http://www.last.fm/help> for your support
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> Support Forums <http://www.last.fm/forum/> where you can get help with your

> questions.
> Artists and Record Labels
>
> Get your music the exposure it deserves by submitting it for free at:
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>
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>
> Contact: office@last.fmoffice [at] last [dot] fm
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>
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> I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
> http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
>