It’s Micro Monday - thanks for the reminder @magenie … when I read Along The Ray … I think about Travels With Charley - one of my favorite 📚 from one of my favorite authors
Thankyou @solari
The Homepod
Apple Homepod Review By An Audio Engineer
##The Songs He Used
- “Hotel California” by The Eagles.
- “Way Down We Go” by Kaleo.
- “Lie To Me” by Depeche Mode.
- “Fitzpleasure” by Alt-J
- “Black Mambo” by Glass Animals
- “Delilah” by Florence and the Machine
- “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley
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Pre No-Man Album Release - take note @minton 🎵
Artists Start To Get Paid A Bit More
“A federal copyright board has raised the music streaming royalties for songwriters and music publishers by more than 40% to narrow the financial divide separating them from recording labels.
Up to this point, music streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, Pandora, and others, have had to pay out 10.5 percent of their revenue to music publishers and songwriters. Now, though, after the court ruling, those platforms will need to fork over 15.1 percent of their revenue.
It is still amazing to me how little artists get paid for streaming. While this is a step forward … it is a long way form being fair. Afterall, people complain about the Tax on the app store at 30% - and yet a tax of 90% being reduced to 85% percent for music makes the news and is seen as acceptable.
What am I missing?
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Maybe I am just getting too cynical for my own good, but when I read that 🔗🎵 Marillion is releasing a deluxe version of their 1994 album Brave … is it just me that wonders if they are readying themselves for retirement and need a pension?
🎵 Truly sad news … I guess it happens to us all.
🎵 10/10 Not Much He Doesn’t Do
Serenity Caldwell at iMore with the complete low down on what you can and cannot play through the Apple iPod.
Test posts flushed - it’s what you do.
It's People That Make A Company.
Got to tell you … @Manton at 🔗 Micro Blog rocks.
For a variety of reasons I have posted trouble tickets to 4 different companies today (Is it me? Really? Say It Ain’t So!)
Pretty sure that Manton is the smallest of the four operations … but that didn’t stop him from being not just the first to respond, but the only one thus far that has even offered me a solution to fix the problems described. (Manton actually fixed it.) In fact two of them have yet to respond.
If you are reading this … and wondering what the hell Micro.Blog is … well ping me and let me know. I have some spare invite codes that will get you in. You won’t regret it.
🎵 9/10 Not Your Grandma’s Communion
Sunlit - Straight Out Of The Box Observations And Comments
I am running the beta of Sunlit (thankyou @manton).
I have done two posts so far ….
… Which is pretty simple really - adding a picture, dropping in some text - it’s like a post - which I can already do in the core app.
BUT
I think what Sunlit is really about is ‘telling visual stories’ - in fact in the interface, it actually uses that term, so I took three pictures out of my library and wrote a story … (don’t worry - I am not expecting an award!)
So far so good - but here are the issues
- That layout doesn’t naturally come out of Sunlit - I had to come back to my post once published and edit to get the order of the photos organized - and then move my text around to relate the text to the story.
- This might be ‘operator error’ … So just recording this thought for now.
- Also - on the single post - I have a big picture, but with multiple pictures, the app forces the images to something smaller - and in fact - notice how the portrait is smaller than the two landscapes …
This is what I Think Sunlit should be able to as an MVP for visual story telling …
- Load multiple pictures
- Reorder the pictures that make sense for my story
- Let me control how big those pictures are
- Let me inject copy throughout the pictures
To be clear … Sunlit is a beta app - so I am sure that this is all taken on board … certainly will continue to use it - high hopes - might even get me to think about posts using images more than I do.
Just for kicks (that aren’t always on route 66) two screen captures of what the posts look like after I di the editing in the micro.blog - ‘visual’ view and ‘text’ view
🎵 8/10 Art, An Album, A Scrap Book
Kicks
Riding The Road. Living The Dream.
No … that isn’t me - I’m the dude on the other side of the camera!
Get Your Fix On Route 66
Just passing through Oatman on Route 66
… and found a gunfight in process.
It was unclear if the burro was relaxing or part of the performance
… that said I was assured that no animals were hurt in the making of this particular epic.
Editorial and IAWriter
So playing around with both Editorial and IA Writer - both have their ‘bennies’ and I can see a role for both in my world as a staging post for thoughts before they end up here.
That means I would mainly be using them on phone / pad - since on the Mac I have Mars Edit. IAWriter has a Mac Client - which I like - so I can do some ‘tuning’ before publishing. I’m kinda old school like that. On Editorial - not possible, other than using a text editor … which is ok but not exactly a markdown expert. So I thought … maybe I could use either to write on the phone and then use IAWriter to edit on the Mac … BUT …
IAWriter ONLY uses iCloud to synch and Editorial ONLY Dropbox … apparently recent changes in Drobbox caused IAWriter to drop Dropbox - so to speak.
Wondering how Editorial makes Dropbox work if IAWriter can’t …. anyone know?
More importantly - any ideas how I could make this setup work?
I am now official …. and Micro.Blog is now my ‘go to’ place for posting in Mars Edit. Great work by
#Later And through the power of the interwebs - this post was dispatched into my twitter stream where it was picked up by @danielpunkass - he of Red Sweater - and thus Mars Edit
Call out to him for ongoing delivery and support of Software that I have been using for years … which made me go check … looks like my first engagement was back in 2009 … can that be right?
#Even Later
… and yes Daniel - appended to - not edited - integrity maintained.
🎵 7/10 Still contains one of my favourite instrumentals.
Let The Speaker Wars Begin
