So I splayed out all the CDs we own on my desk, and have been dropping them in my CD burner, as I’ve sat at my desk watching movies on my computer.
I learned a valuable lesson: Windows Media Player rips music much easier than iTunes.
With iTunes, you have to drop the CD in, wait for [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Ripping More Music
July 29th, 2008
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The Importance of Backing Up Your Site
July 25th, 2008
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Working for a fairly large webhost, I often see people who got “hacked”, and their websites destroyed. I often laugh, because people don’t often get “hacked”, but often simply have their password guessed, which gives the “hacker” full access to your site, account, and files.
98% of the time, that’s the case. Given, there’s [...]
WordPress 2.6
July 15th, 2008
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WordPress 2.6 was released last night/this morning, and is a big improvement. There’s some great new features, and some security patches that were done.
I went through this morning, and upgraded all my WordPress installs, which is always a fun (yet daunting) task.
I began repurposing the old media tower last night, into a home web-server. Not [...]
Finished!
July 13th, 2008
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Finally! It certainly helped having the conversion application running on the better computer. Now that all the music’s in one directory, it’s easy to see how many duplicates of some tracks we had.
I whittled it down from roughly 18 thousand songs to just over 10. Talk about a lot of doubles?
Now [...]
Still Converting Music
July 13th, 2008
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I think the problem is that I was using the “old” PC to do the converting, and not my new workhorse machine.
I installed the conversion software on my better computer, and things are speeding up much faster. A song on the new computer takes roughly 15 seconds to convert, versus a minute and a [...]
Moving from iTunes to Windows Media
July 11th, 2008
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I thought it would be easy, and quick to leave iTunes. I just wanted to break up, and start my new relationship with Windows Media Player/Center. Why? Easy.
When we moved into our new place, there was no room in the living room for the “Media PC”, to be hooked up to the stereo [...]
So Far Removed
July 7th, 2008
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Packing up the rest of our stuff over the weekend kind of depressed me. I looked at my collection of guitars, and drums, and microphones, and mixing boards and the like, and thought about it.
It’s been a good three years since I played anything, seriously. And even longer since I’ve written anything music [...]
