Bliss and a thousand blinding suns

Okay, you’ve been reading this blog. God is peering down, watching you reading this blog. God is peering down, watching me writing this blog. And I have to say that amazing things happen late at night when your guard is down, and the music just floods over you. Floods over me. The music is flooding, and there’s not a chance that we’re going to swamp this place out.

Okay, what I was trying to say is that the companies will lock up your music into weird little formats that put a box around the joy — joyous — rapture that is your music. Not MY music. OUR music. It’s all in the stream.

Okay, so these little angles and geometries of formats of devices and deceits, I hate thee so. I want to play my music. I want to hear this NOW goddamn it.

I happy am to announce that my lock box has burst free into the open stream.

Okay, you may be saying, What this? What of? What for? I can only say it in plain terms. Amarok 1.4, the music player of choice for Linux, now plays MPEG-4 AAC files, that is, the Apple iTunes format. My billion songs locked into a windows/mac format no more. My billion songs in AAC my billion songs playing to be free my billion songs wanting life … and finding it.

Okay, so Amarok is cool. Okay, so Amarok 1.4 is the best version yet.

And you wonder, little toad, why I haven’t been using Windows? Oh, little toadlet? You wonder and surmise that the music is not in control of the companies. (We did buy one CD with DRM and such we never listen to, poor BRMC.)

Okay, dear reader. Spread the love. Linux is free, and Linux will jam the freak out of your iPod.