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Winter wonderland
Oct. 22nd, 2020 10:28 amI always add Current Music to my posts when I am setting up the tags and other post meta data. When I was setting up to post this yesterday, the song I Got You came up in rotation - a metal cover of it, that is. I like the cover, but I was in the mood for the Split Enz original, and I went looking for it in my playlist - where it wasn't.
I am sure I added the original version long before I added the metal remake, but for some reason it had vanished from my Spotify list. It is possible that I hadn't actually added the song, but this is not the first time I've discovered missing songs that I distinctly remember adding earlier. My suspicion is that the artist/label pulled the song and replaced it with a cleaner version. It's still a bit annoying.
Recent updates have also made the Spotify application a bit sluggish and unreliable. It's not completely broken, but it's disheartening when a company somehow manages to make their product worse with each "upgrade".
Overall I love this music streaming service, and I think it's worth the monthly subscription, but there are definitely things I miss about WinAmp - such as having Semagic be able to detect what I was listening to automatically so that I didn't have to manually type it in. Also, I miss some of the funky plug-ins you could add to WinAmp.
Just two months ahead of the official start of winter, we had our first significant dump of snow. Usually snowfalls this time of year are short-lived. The significant, damaging blizzard we got in early-mod October last year was mostly gone within a couple of days, but we are hovering so far below our normal seasonal temperatures this year that some of the snow we got yesterday has a pretty good chance of lasting until spring.
I mean, it's pretty, but the novelty is going to wear off after 3-4 months. Most of the trees are bare now, but there are a few that hang onto their greenery until the last, bitter second.
Some of the standing water has got a crust of ice over it now, but the river has not frozen over yet. It will.
I am sure I added the original version long before I added the metal remake, but for some reason it had vanished from my Spotify list. It is possible that I hadn't actually added the song, but this is not the first time I've discovered missing songs that I distinctly remember adding earlier. My suspicion is that the artist/label pulled the song and replaced it with a cleaner version. It's still a bit annoying.
Recent updates have also made the Spotify application a bit sluggish and unreliable. It's not completely broken, but it's disheartening when a company somehow manages to make their product worse with each "upgrade".
Overall I love this music streaming service, and I think it's worth the monthly subscription, but there are definitely things I miss about WinAmp - such as having Semagic be able to detect what I was listening to automatically so that I didn't have to manually type it in. Also, I miss some of the funky plug-ins you could add to WinAmp.
Just two months ahead of the official start of winter, we had our first significant dump of snow. Usually snowfalls this time of year are short-lived. The significant, damaging blizzard we got in early-mod October last year was mostly gone within a couple of days, but we are hovering so far below our normal seasonal temperatures this year that some of the snow we got yesterday has a pretty good chance of lasting until spring.
I mean, it's pretty, but the novelty is going to wear off after 3-4 months. Most of the trees are bare now, but there are a few that hang onto their greenery until the last, bitter second.
Some of the standing water has got a crust of ice over it now, but the river has not frozen over yet. It will.
