I've been meaning to write something about Zune fans for a while, so here goes. They are just as annoying as iPod fanboys.

I recently subscribed to a few Zune blogs in my feed reader so I could keep up with firmware updates (or the lack of them), and it seems most of the Zune related blogs offer nothing but the same tired "can your iPod do that?" arguments and blind praise for seriously flawed software. Makes me wonder if Microsoft is actually paying for this kind of garbage to be written, kinda like this completely realistic review of the Zune car charger/FM transmitter on Amazon:

I'm so glad I finally broke down and bought one of these. It's tiresome trying to find a good song on the radio or burning CD's all the time when you find new music you want to listen to in the car. With the FM Transmitter, you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want. And couple that with the Zune Marketplace and your listening choices are limitless!

Please.

Dear electronic device owners: If your electronic device of choice works better for you than somebody else's electronic device of choice, keep it to yourself. Nobody cares except other people who use the same electonic device... And even then, you're just annoying a lot of them too.

I am writing this right after reading yet another article praising how awesome the Zune software is, and if you read my blog at all, you already know my thoughts on the Zune software. I immediately wanted to reply, but like most annoying blogs, I had to register before I could even comment. After registering, I posted my comment but it looks like it has to go through some kind of approval process first. Wouldn't want any negative (aka truthful) comments, would you? If my comment actually gets approved, I'll be surprised.

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Last.fm just released an experimental little application called Boffin, which scans your entire music library and creates a tag cloud based on all of the genres in your collection. It doesn't just read the genre tags for every song, though, it instead looks up every song of yours in the Last.fm database and creates a tag cloud using their own tags. So you don't have to worry about retagging all your stuff! The result is something very similar to the regular Last.fm radio, except it plays from your own collection rather than theirs.

Do I want to listen to only folk and punk? Yes please. You can read about it here or download it here for PC or Mac.

It also lets you export your tag cloud to Wordle, which I wrote about before if you remember. This is mine:

PRETTY NIFTY.

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Right now.

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I haven't used iTunes in a while but I fired it up today to play with some Genius playlists, upon which I noticed a lot of my music was without album art. I selected my entire library and told it to grab album art for everything. Normally iTunes has been pretty accurate when deciding which album art to use, but today I ran into a few oddities. Behold:

Team America: World Police Soundtrack

Nine Inch Nails - CRC Sessions
(this is a bootleg and doesn't even have any official artwork)

Tenacious D - Self Titled

I've never run into anything remotely as weird as this using iTunes before, so my only idea is that iTunes was somehow "Google bombed" via a flood of incorrect artwork. I don't know. The only thing I know for sure is that Delicious D is awesome.

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After a couple requests and a lot of procrastination, I've created an RSS feed for the Facebook-esque newsfeed on my homepage. I don't know why you'd want to be alerted via RSS whenever I love a song on Last.fm, but now you can. It also includes whenever I favorite a video on YouTube, whenever I write a new blog post, and whenever I update Twitter.

Welcome to Stalker Towne, population: You.

Jan 17, 2010 Update: I've changed my blog around and this link no longer works. 

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