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Contact me: jholland at vin-dit dot org.
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My little app, possibly fun for music buffs who use Apple Music: (best to click this link on an iPhone, where it can run) : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsplaying/id6448736200
WhatImHearing.html
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/what-im-hearing/id6801156541
A better app - kind of like Shazam meets wikipedia, but also does wikipedia for Apple Music item currently playing. A big improvement on the earlier one.
$0.99 , cheap ! 😀
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September 15 
Rip, Mix, Burn - download and print and keep a copy with you ! :)
September 14
SweetAndDandy.mp4 
from wikipedia: "Kong makes a cameo appearance in the 1972 Jamaican film The Harder They Come, playing a recording engineer in a scene in which Jimmy Cliff's character watches a studio recording session, by Toots and the Maytals, of the song "Sweet and Dandy" (Kong was the actual producer of that recording).
Kong's plans to release a compilation album of tracks from the singles he produced by the Wailers led to Bunny Wailer allegedly threatening Kong with a curse, telling him that if he issued the record he would die.[6] Kong went ahead with the release in 1970,[6] and died of a heart attack, aged 37, in August 1971." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Kong
September 12 ** 3 https://vin-dit.org/songForAbdullah.html
September 12 ** 2 Progress on ice-nine? https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-new-form-of-ice-at-more-than-2000-c IYKYK
September 12 I'll See You Again...IllSeeYouAgain.mp4 
Celine McLorin Salvant with Sullivan Fortner at the piano
September 08 ** 2 
I knew this song from the Island Records "Rastaman Vibration" album. Today I found out the Wailers (with Bunny and Peter) recorded it with Lee Perry years before. Throw me corn....
September 08 Griot's Song by Caribe Son (composed by James Cotton) was using this to test my app as it is not known to Shazam. I think it sounds pretty good. 1995. (going outside my comfort zone with the non-alphanumeric chars in the URL/filename 😀 )
September 07 ** 3 Maybe it's because we're in Puerto Rico, but I went to play this song for someone, and .... no dice! Apple Music acting like Youtube in terms of pulling the rug out. Ironically I just located it on Youtube, and will put it into my collection. Here it is: "Monument" by Tabu Ley Rochereau (the image is a link to the mp3) 
September 07 ** 2 “Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
*Harmless untruths
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
September 07
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/what-im-hearing/id6801156541 This is the iphone app store link for my just-published app. It does the shazam thing (identifies the song it's getting from the microphone) but with buttons to jump to the wikipedia articles on the song and artist. If you're playing a song in Apple Music on your phone it provides links for that as well, with additionally a link for the album. This is an inexact process, sort of guessing at the wikipedia links, which often works but will sometimes not. Songs with simple titles like "Rain" are going to go to a general article based on the word, most likely. $0.99 , cheap ! 😀
September 06 ** 2 https://bernd.wechner.info/Bokononism/ A kindred spirit, perhaps, or fellow devotee.......
September 06 
RosalÃa on stage, flanked by the giant video screens, from the show we saw Thursday night.
September 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit