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Well, that was fun. The RSS was goofed up (it wasn’t doing full text), which I fixed by updating the RSS template on the site. The email subscription was also goofed up, but that was the fault of the RSS feed being borked, because the email template is supposed pull the stuff from the “content” section of each post, and the RSS template lacked that section. I’ll only find out if those fixes worked after this publishes. Well, the RSS feed does work, I checked that. But the email, we’ll just have to find out.

Welcome to the new Five Songs! The plan is for me to post a weekly thing rather than the previous daily-ish ones. We’ll see how the format is going to develop, but it will for sure include the titular five random songs. As for the rest, feel free to let me know what’s reading well and what isn’t. Anyway, I’m going to try and send this thing on Wednesdays.

A note about playlists, first. When I started Five Songs, more than nine years ago (geez!), I used YouTube to host playlists. It was the best of the various bad choices that were out there. It was publicly accessible without an account, lots of stuff was already uploaded to the site so I could just add the existing songs, I could upload (unlisted!) songs that were missing when necessary, it generally worked OK. There were drawbacks, though. Some songs just couldn’t be uploaded there because the rights holders prevented it. Fair enough, I can’t really complain too vigorously about people wanting to keep their shit off of YouTube. But it was a hassle. It was also a little annoying having to prep each song into a video, but that wasn’t that big a deal. The other problem was really YouTube itself. YouTube sucks! If you don’t have an ad blocker or Premium account, the ads are oppressive. Giving Google more traffic is bad! So, after a while, I did soemthing about it.

All right, you’re confirmed now. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy…whatever it is I’m doing here.

Hey, thanks for subscribing to the blog! I’m going to level with you: I don’t know why you did so. But I do appreciate it, and I’ll do my best to now waste your time. At least, not beyond the constraints of the blog.

You should get a confirmation email for your subscription, and it won’t be active until you deal with that.

It’s been true, over the course of Five Songs history, that I’ve posted “we’re back!!!” on multiple occasions. And, sometimes that’s true, sometimes less so. This time around, though, it’s more of a technical sense than anything else. My other blog, House of Slack Games was hacked, probably due to an old version of Ghost. I decided I was sick of dealing with that kind of thing, security updates, things of that nature, and rebuilt it using a static site generator. Well, I don’t really want to run two blog systems, so I rebuilt this site as well.