But then I was told that TheSixtyOne has something that none of the earlier services have: a gaming element. Yes. A Gaming Element. While you can listen to whatever music you find in the service – and they do have lots of CreativeCommons licenced stuff! – the service also guides you on how to find new, intresting music and how to enhance your experience by having Quests that you can do, Achievements you can reach and Reputation you can collect to Level up. Bloody brilliant.

Only thing I’m missing is an API and new ecosystem of applications for this. Listening to the music only with the browser is a bit tiresome, as browsers tend to be, atleast in my use, the most unstable part of my system. Proper applications would also help bypass Flash, which is all nice and fun on a proper browser, but on n800 or on my mobile I’m not even bothering.

In any case, ROCK ON!

I’ve got a great mp3-player these days. Since I left my previous job, I needed a new phone because I had to give the one I used back. I did some research and considered Nokia’s E51 to be about perfect choice. Unfortunately I needed the phone immediately and E51 isn’t yet on stores, so after some more research I ended up with picking N95. And it has been love at first sight, since it has an excellent camera, wonderful 3G, great UI and loverly apps.

There’s been some minor things I’m not that happy with. I’ve been unable to install OggPlay for it. The placement of the handsfree-audio/video-out is very unfortunate. And as all reviews have said, the battery life isn’t exactly good. But aside those, I love it.

I’ve been filling up the memory card I bought with not only the cd’s I’ve bought, but also with music ripped from cd’s borrowed from the local library. I’ve been listening to Sound of Music, West Side Story, Notting Hill, Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve, but also Poets of the Fall. Their both albums are excellent.

Since the release of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon the installation of multimedia codecs has been really easy with ubuntu-restricted-extras -package. Now the usage of Soundjuicer to rip mp3′s is really simple and doesn’t seem to require any effort, or then my old configs have magically started to work.

I also have just recently found out about a last.fm online radio client for Nokia’s Internet Tablets called Vagalume. It’s been a great joy and pleasure to have my favorite music with my 770, since not all of my collection fits into the 2GB micro-SD in my phone.

I had to, of course, knit my babies their matching pouches.