To celebrate the SpiralFrog-Universal announcement and hearing a track from Brian Eno’s long-term thinking bells project on BBC Radio 3’s wonderful Late Junction, I decided to download some new Eno ambients from Enoshop.

The process was comparatively painless, but could have been much better. I had to download all the tracks from the three albums individually. Thankfull Eno albums tend to have only one or two tracks, but the bells albun has 15, so that was a lot of click/download cycles.

The next issue was that the files came down with encoded names! Ok, so the music player lifts the name from the file, but my computer-user mentality wanted the tracks renamed and organised into named folders. More manual effort.

With a bit smoother interface this is clearly the way forward. It’s good enough for me, but I’ll buy less music in the future. But I do worry about the lack of consumer orientation with this. Ok, Brian Eno Ambient music may not be a mass-market product, but SpiralFrog and company better make this as easy as iTunes allegedly has. That’s my next port of call!

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