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New Readers Start Here:- Story so far

We had a human reader this morning for yesterday's post, visiting us deliberately and followed links through to a streaming sample - not that we want to make you self concious - it's just that we are watching and you are very welcome!

It occured to me that if we are going to get people as well as robots visiting a brief story so far might be in order.

We started the blog last December soon after the site was launched and have tracked the ups and downs ever since.

There was an extended excursion into Podcasting before we realised that our MP3 samples were apparently proving attractive as ringtones. The replacement of MP3 samples by streaming samples and all the accompanying anxiety over compatibility. In practice the change seems to have worked very well and few visitors experience any difficulty.

As a new kid on the block we are trying every free/very low cost trick in the book to try to achieve internet profile for our music and get it infront of as many ears as possible - confident that it will sell itself on its audible merits. How could anyone resist music like this.

For this reason some of the blog is food for spiders who devour it voraciously - for example:

Most recently we have been clarifying our iPod/iTunes compatibility because we offer such good value music to iPod users that can easily be managed with iTunes software.

We are currently working on a Distinctive Ring tones or is that Ringtones collection for discerning mobile phone users who want a discrete and tasteful way to assert their individuality. (We'll be back latter to insert the links.)

In case you weren't aware blogs are just like the books in George Orwell aka Eric Blair's '1984' the editors/ authors can go back and correct history or theirstory with out the reader being aware. Not sure what the spiders make of this but we'll try and find out in due course.

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