Earlier this week I filled up my 80gb iPod. I had a lot of fun doing it too. Tonight I went through and removed duplicate song titles (due to “greatest hits” albums, mostly) and recovered about 4gb of space. Time to do more shopping…
I was looking at the Apple store today, thinking that [...]
I buy most of my music from used cd / dvd stores. Even when I am on trips I will often try to find out if there are stores nearby so I can see what they might have. Over the past few months I have had a few interesting finds. Some of them were even [...]
I’ve had some fun looking for matches in the song data of my iTunes library for particular words. For example, which direction is the most popular?
North: 4 items 13.8 minutes
East: 44 items 29. hours
South: 86 items 6.7 hours
West: 18 items 1.3 hours
Clearly the South is the place to be. What about seasons?
Summer: 34 [...]
I spent a lot of time reading about USB turntables because I wanted to be able to “rip” vinyl to my computer to load my iPod. I finally decided that since I already own a regular turntable I should try it first. The only expense would be a few cables and some time, and it [...]
A few weeks ago I posted some statistics based on searches in my iTunes library for certain key words in the song data. In the first post I was looking for Love, Truth, and Honesty. I found lots of love, but not much honesty. Today I am going to look for some more words and [...]
iTunes is okay. It’s not great, but it’s functional. The other day I decided to have some fun and see what I could find. Literally. As in searching for certain words within the song data.
When I searched for “Love” I found 627 items, or enough music to span 1.7 days of listening. That’s a lot [...]
This is apparently my TLA post. Need a decoder ring? Here you go:
DRM = Digital Rights Management
WIP = Work In Progress
TLA = Three Letter Acronym
Digital Rights Management or DRM is the process or technology used to “protect” digital media like movies or music from unauthorized distribution. This concept was one of the main reasons why [...]
How private is your music collection? No, wait, let me write that another way. How private do you want to keep your music collection?
Last fall we got to hear Miranda Lambert at the Texas State Fair. I like all sorts of music and certainly enjoyed her show. It was nice to hear that she is essentially a local girl as she grew up in a small town named Lindale located east of Dallas. Miranda has an interesting reputation, [...]
A long time ago a co-worker of mine suggested a musical artist to me that I had never heard of. That artist was Jeff Healey, and the disc was “Hell to Pay” and it happened to be the very first compact disc I ever bought. It was awesome. I have since picked up several other [...]
