14 Comments

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   ian on January 2, 2007 at 5:26 pm

   odeo’s working for me, real audio isn’t

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   Wayne from the UK on January 3, 2007 at 2:04 am

   Same for me

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   Wayne from the UK on January 3, 2007 at 3:23 pm

   The player on the right with the last few shows is superb Brian. Great quality. I’d go as far as to say “awesome”!!

   Well done oh Website master!

   Wayne

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4. 

   ebbers on January 3, 2007 at 5:31 pm

   I am having trouble downloading this show.

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5. 

   jim on January 4, 2007 at 10:09 am

   The Posies covered “What’s Going Ahn” 4 different times? I didn’t know that!

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   Sky Bluesky on January 4, 2007 at 3:22 pm

   That Matthew Sweet cover is … well … sweet. It’s great. Also look for Elliott Smith’s version of “Thirteen,” which is lovely and sublime, if you’re in a Big Star mood. Or email me, Brian, and I’ll hook you up, as the kids say. (Do the kids say that anymore? Oh well.)

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   elmegil on January 4, 2007 at 9:59 pm

   The display doesn’t work for me; I run my browser at 800 or so wide, and the far side of the CD case is covered by the ads on the right.

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   Wayne from the UK on January 6, 2007 at 8:41 am

   The CD case “Coverville” looks good. Your CD”s Brian?

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   Stephen M. on January 6, 2007 at 4:44 pm

   In the “E” in Coverville: “I get knocked down, but I get up again, ain’t nothing gonna keep me down..”

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10. 

    marm on January 7, 2007 at 3:24 am

    Any chance of looking at how the songs are displayed in iTunes? A simple “/” between songs would make it easier to makes sense of the display on the iPod screen.

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    Brian Ibbott on January 7, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    You’re absolutely right – I’ll make sure that I take the iTunes display into account when I’m figuring out how best to do the lists.

    I think the CD case idea may not work for now.

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12. 

    Jonathan on January 8, 2007 at 3:15 am

    The Coverville text looks AWESOME!!!

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    Ben Ostrowsky on January 8, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    My number-one-with-a-bullet request for site design is this:

    PLEASE make the show notes make visual sense on the iPod! It doesn’t handle tables very well. The <table> tag is totally appropriate for the site, but iPod users would be able to handle the show notes in the RSS feed much better if you used CSS markup to style simple text like this:

    Neil Finn covers “Sexual Healing” (originally by Marvin Gaye), from the album Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge

    Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes covers “Lay Lady Lay” (originally by Bob Dylan), from the album Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Shonen Knife covers “Top of the World” (originally by The Carpenters), from the album If I Were a Carpenter

    The markup would look something like this:

    <span class=”artist”>Shonen Knife</span><span class=”hidden”> covers “</span><span class=”title”>Top Of The World</span><span class=”hidden”> (originally by </span><span class=”originalartist”>The Carpenters</span><span class=”hidden”>), from the album </span><span class=”album”>If I Were a Carpenter</span>

    That way, I could consult the show notes while listening to remind myself who’s covering that song I’m digging. And, yes, it would cause oddities like “The Beatles covers Your Feet’s Too Big” and “from the album Website“, but it would still be a lot easier to make sense of.

    Thanks for all your work!

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    Brian Ibbott on January 8, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    With the span class tags, how will it look on the iPod? Will all the tab stops be aligned?

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