p2pnet news | Music:- Most of Peter ‘the mediocrity of MP3′ Gabriel’s www.petergabriel.com/ Real World, Peter Gabriel and WOMAD pages are still down.

“Our servers were stolen from our ISP’s data centre on Sunday night - Monday morning,” says the site, but:

“We are working to restore normal service as soon as possible”.

But of course. And proving he has his priorities straight, Gabriel’s first move was to “get our store up and running”.

Meanwhile, he’s now apparently over his, “aural objections to digital downloads,” says PC World NZ, going on:

“With others investers, he’s poured $US5 milllion into thefilter.com, in beta and which modestly describes itself as “the ultimate discovery service”.

For those of you who don’t haven’t figured out your own audio and visual preferences, all you have to do is, “Tell it the movie, music and WebVideos that you like and it will find new stuff for you that match your taste”.

“In its first iteration, The Filter ‘learned’ about your taste through a combination of saving your searches through its search engine (which otherwise looks pretty much like Google or any other), plus a downloadable app that sifted through your iTunes or Windows Media Player playlists,” says PC World, addingup:

“It’s a good theory, but on their blog, The Filter’s developers admit ‘things on the site are a bit slow, sometimes ugly and certainly buggy’ as it struggles to emerge from beta to a live public launch scheduled this month. I agree. It’s often taken me two or three attempts to log-in as various bizzaro error message are spat out by The Filter’s home page.”

But, patience, patience, because once you’re in, “it’s now looking pretty slick and user-friendly”.

. .Stumble It!

PC World NZ - Peter Gabriel makes his peace with MP3 - and launches a site that second-guesses your taste, April 30, 2008

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