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I love music but I’m no musician. I’m constantly in awe at the skill of all the artists featured here on this blog and wish with all my heart that I was half as talented as them. But one day I had an idea for a concept album and thought that perhaps half a talent might just be enough. And so I set about producing my own remix album. Below is the complete album “Entropically Yours…. The Pansentient League” in [...]

A few minor tweaks and changes to this blog: I’ve added a few little Google AdSense ads elements that will appear at the bottom of posts and along the side of a couple of other pages. You’ll also see an extended Bookmark & Share widget on posts now, as well as Facebook like buttons. In other news, I’m now in-between jobs so I’m taking a bit of time off for a holiday. I’ll be soaking up the rays in sunny [...]

Several Spotify-related widgets, code stubs and WordPress plugins have appeared to enhance your blog or website. Here’s a look at some of them.

To our new Dutch readers and the rest of you new music fans, welcome to the Pansentient League, a blog that’s (mostly) about music-streaming service Spotify. You’ll find all sorts of Spotify-related articles and links on this site, as well as some reviews and news about my favourite music genres and the occasional post on science-fiction books and gadgets. If you’re new to Spotify, here’s a primer with some of the [...]

Here’s a bit of self- indulgence: a post about an online linguistic experiment. Normal service will resume shortly! A few years ago, I made up some new words and seeded them on the Internet to see how much they’d grow. I posted the new words on this blog (here’s the original post) then strategically placed them on a few other sites and forums. At the time, all these words resulted in zero results when searching for them [...]

Here’s a temporary solution to the problem of Spotify’s lack of new-release updates. Following my post about it last week (and the related support thread), reader Steve (digithed) suggested reading Spotify’s metadata API with a query on albums tagged as new. Coding wizard Andy Smith (of spotibot fame) then stepped in to help implement the XML output as a webpage: the result is this auto-generated list of new releases! [...]

I’ve made a few tweaks and minor updates to this blog: WPTouch Mobile Theme: the site now formats properly on mobile devices such as Android phones and iPhones. New categories: I’ve added a couple of new categories: apple and record labels. Subscribe to Comments: I’m thinking of installing the DISQUS comment system but in the meantime I’ve installed the popular plugin that lets you subscribe to comments. Counters: [...]

Welcome to The Pansentient League, a blog about Spotify, synthpop, sci-fi and gadgets. This is version 3.0 of the blog, as I’ve just migrated the site over from Blogger to WordPress. I installed a theme called Vina then made a few tweaks, fixes and customizations: The SPOTIFY RESOURCES page at the top of the blog lists every known Spotify-related site, blog, application, and resource. There’s a custom Spotify Playlist widget [...]

Please excuse a little self-indulgence tonight… I started blogging here in January 2009, posting pictures of my tech gadgets, bookcases, and Google Android apps. Then at the start of February I posted about a new music service I’d just heard about called Spotify. After using it for a few days, I had an idea to take some photos of my CD cases and created a simple imagemap so that I could click on a CD and have the album open [...]

Blogger Hal Halvorsen recently posted a neat little trick on how to list your Now Playing tracks on a WordPress blog, using Last.fm as an intermediary. If you have a WordPress blog, see Now Scrobbling: Spotify to Last.fm to WordPress. Hal’s site halvorsen.org also has several other Spotify-related posts: go check it out!