Happy Holidays

Yes, I'm still alive.  Yes, I am still a Rhapsody user (although the past few months have been quite trying).  No, I am no longer tracking which albums are still having problems.  Rhapsody has mostly fixed the issue with just an occasional album popping up here and there with the Helix error c00d0bbe.  I have asked my contacts at Rhapsody for the best place for everyone to submit tracks with the problems and I will pass that along here as soon as I hear back (could be after the New Year).

My current issues are around Rhapsody's interaction with the 2.51 version of the firmware for my iRiver H10.  It's all screwy.  I'm actually using WMP10 to sync Rhapsody To Go tracks at the moment, but even that is occasionally problematic.  At least it is a hell of a lot faster than Rhapsody's sync.

Anyway, not really sure what the future holds for this site.  My of my blogging efforts these days are focused on raleighing.com.  That site gets exponentially more hits than this one ever did which is weird since its audience is strictly residents of the Raleigh area.  Shows how far off we are from really having an active and excited user base in the online music world.  Personally, I think I am in serious need of another breakthrough of sorts to keep my enthusiasm up.  My struggles over the past several months would have driven away all but the most technical and most dedicated, which I know most consumers aren't.  We are still several steps away from the mainstream, and Mr. Jobs is certainly no help either.

I have the next week off so I may get around to publishing a Most Worthy 2005 list.  We'll see.

Happy Holidays!