[Manabi]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Cool. I didn't know about that. I'll give it a try!

I found it earlier this month when looking into solutions to monitor the Indiegala page I mentioned previously. Was totally blown away by how useful it is!

Originally Posted by murg

Well, if he is a poet, I do hope he's very careful around open flames while partaking of the standard drink of poets, Irish Whiskey.

So you're saying that if the tube(monkey) decides to lube with some boo-ze, he should avoid the fume-s becoming illume-d lest he go boom?

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks for your post.

The musicians/bands are all . . . how shall I say this nicely . . . unknowns. I wouldn't mind hearing some of their music. Some of them may actually be good and will one day make it big. I just can't bring myself to listen to all of those bad ones in order to find the good ones. I'm sure that some people who monitor this thread are much more into the music scene than I am, and read reviews and get tips and things like that so that they know who to check into and try out. They may not be bothered by that issue and, in fact, may enjoy doing the exploration.

If you like what Google Play has to offer in their Antenna sampler, I would suggest that you use Manabi's tip about Visual Ping, which she wrote about several messages above. Looks like it would be a good way to be informed when they change the selection.

I've done the sampler thing a lot with free Christmas albums and it can be... taxing is probably the politest word I can think of. Sometimes I've gotten some real gems and found a new artist I like. Sometimes I get a track I really like, only to find that was apparently the only decent track that artist ever recorded. But often it's just total crap. My entire Christmas playlist is 11.5 days worth of music. But the smart playlist with just four & five star tracks is 8.5 days. (And it drops down to just 4.7 days with the smart playlist of only five-star tracks.) I've been building that list up for several years, but I think I'd have gone insane if I went through samplers and compilations more than a few months out of every year. (Usually just October - December.)

One thing to note on the Visual Ping site: you are limited to 62 checks a month on the free plan. This can be spread across multiple jobs, and works out to two pages checked once every day. If you're checking sites weekly, you could get even more mileage out of it. But if you need to check a lot of sites daily, you'll end up needing to subscribe. It's fairly reasonable, starting at five checks a day for $4 a month.