If you hang around me long enough, It won't be long till you hear me say "I should have been a ________."(Fill in with pro football player, cop, referee, rock star, politician...) Not because I necessarily want to be those things, it's mostly because I have moments of genius when I think I can be better than those that do it professionally. The wife is amazed by the fact that my giant, inflated head can even stay up anymore.
Anyways, I've been scouring the net for a way to be able to stream my mp3's at home to my computer at work (or anywhere I wanted to have access to my music.) I tried a couple of different apps, but finally stumbled upon Mercora.
The cool thing about this is that it lets me setup my own radio station. I can have up to five channels playing at any one time. I can also create a play list and create custom channels. For now, I added my whole My Music directory. Anyone that goes to the Mercora website can search for my DJ name and listen to a sample of what I have on my hard drive. How cool is that? The best thing is that since I rip Cd's entirely, I forget what music I have on my hard drive, and this randomly selects music and streams it to me.
So now I am the DJ ( I can FINALLY cross it off my list) and I personally think it's better than anything that is streamed on the intertubes.
If you want to give it a listen, go to Mercora's search page, and search for jinric. You can also listen to other DJs, or listen to random mixes categorized by genre.

PS... My music collection is all over the place, just so you know. Be kind.

For the more "eclectic" musical taste, check out David Byrne's radio stream. Great background music for those late night bloggers.

Labels: Misc, My Life