Act nice and gentlemanly…..

I’m a Linux fan… actually more accurately I’m a fan of well written operating systems that do what they are designed to do in a functional and consistent manner…. Which means with the exception of 1 NT based windows OS I’m a Windows Fan…. And lets face it I do 95% of my personal stuff on the Mac but you know Mac is like 1 step to the Right of Linux… if Linux is the slacker brother who lucked into a wicked job and hot wife, then Mac is the starving artist brother who tried to reinvent himself 10 years ago with increasingly better results.

So I was going to write about music on my phone… Yeah music on my phone… which is Android… which is Linux… which in the previous paragraph I may or may not have mentioned I’m a fan of. I’m also a fan of iOS, but I made a conscious decision to not move to a iphone because I am not a fan of the walled garden approach that Apple takes with iOS (yes there are ways to get around it, but honestly I’m lazy and I don’t really feel like screwing around with it). While I’m fine with a iPad and iOS as a combination (the upsized screen makes apps just a little bit easier to use in non-app form and goto a browser based setup). One of my consistent complaints of Android has always been it’s kind of a pain in the ass to get music loaded onto, mainly because the iPod and other iDevices are the standard for this particular endeavor (shit just works and works well). It’s a small gripe and I don’t listen to music on my phone enough outside of Pandora to really be that worried about it.

Now Amazon has come along with their cloud player… and oh shit son I have a new favorite application on my phone. I already liked the Amazon MP3 store, and now that I’ve played with it and the cloud music integration I’m sold. Yes it’s 5GB free, but it’s $20 a year for another 20GB… I know several individuals who pay $25 a year for flickr-pro account and have no real business with a flickr pro account.

Will cloud music replace pandora? Probably not, half the fun of Pandora is listening to new music that you might not otherwise have listened to (there is a reason I’m started listening to alot more 70’s southern rock and it’s not the nascar). The main reason I like amazon cloud music… I don’t have to screw around with double twist and it’s slow syncing to get my music on my phone… turn on the app, get the data flowing and life is good my friends.

Now if I can just figure out a way to automate the moving of podcasts.