Ugh...I can't believe how long it's been since my last post...thanks, Blogger Dashboard...
I have no real excuse beyond the fact that I have a feeling that a situation at work was making me feel rather disinclined towards writing anything, although I do have a couple of notes stashed away where I had thoughts about writing up stuff for the blog, and never felt motivated enough to do so. Fortunately, the work thing's sorted out, now, and I was thinking about my blog the other day, and how as it's entitled "Smerk Musings", I should put out some thoughts.
Anyhow, musical musings for now. Music's been on my mind the past couple of weekends, as due to the misguided aggression of the in-built computer clean-up tools on antivirus software, and a user issue of not understanding fully how these things worked, ended up resulting in my digital music library getting decimated.
Fortunately, my CD collection isn't huge - I've probably only got around 100 or so - if that. And I haven't been brave enough to make forays out into buying music online. Mainly because my current MP3 player is not an Apple-based product, and therefore doesn't play nice with iTunes (or is that iTunes doesn't play nice with non-Apple MP3 players?), and haven't exactly gone searching for other online stores, anyhow.
Another plus point that made the job a little less mammothy was the fact that most of my CDs had been ripped on another computer (my little laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive!), so the majority of it had been saved to an external hard-drive and is mostly intact. I still found a couple of instances where a song had been deleted from the external hard-drive, or I'd ripped a CD using another computer to a little flash drive, which due to the size of the things, I obviously deleted the music files once I'd transferred them to my computer.
Anyhow, I ended up managing to sort everything out, and get everything labelled correctly (it's very frustrating to find that a number of albums with wrong artists attributed to them, or is that just me being pedantic/OCD?).
So, I can now see that (according to the way Windows Media Player orders things):
- Artists: *NSync with "Bye Bye Bye" (just the one *NSync song, I swear!), to the Zutons with "Runaway"
- Songs: "#1 Crush" by Garbage to "Zyryab" by Paco de Lucia
- Release years: 1973 (Beatles best of 1962-1966) to 2010 (Triple J's Like a Version volume 6) and a large number where I couldn't spot the release/copyright year on the CD or CD sleeve
- Length of song: 0.15 for the Bazmark Fanfare by Baz Luhrmann to 21.46 for Infinite Joy by Ken Davis
All in all, I apparently have 134 hours of music...doesn't seem like much, really.
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5 comments:
I like #1 crush too :)
try legalsounds for downloads (just a suggestion)
Aaaaaaaaaaaa! *NSync! The horror!!!!!
;-)
I have never owned an personal MP3 player, mainly because I've never been that into music that I can't handle not listening to it in the times between being in my car or the odd time I listen at home.
However, for Christmas Christian got my some Care Bear headphones with the idea that they would go well with the little pink MP3 player he won at a quiz night a couple of years ago (he found an IPod a while back and has been using that instead).
I figured the MP3 player would come in handy at the gym and when I'm out walking so I've started collating my favourite songs on my computer in readiness. But all I've really managed to do so far is put all those songs on a thumbdrive and listen to them in my car...
I finally broke down and bought an MP3 player a couple of months ago. Don't have a lot of music on there yet, or on my computer. Oppie, I'll probably check out that site you suggested. :-)
I bought a portable MP3 player several years ago. However, it's actually a portable CD player that can also play MP3's that are burned onto CD. It doesn't have any memory built in to it. I hardly ever use it, though, which is probably about the same as I'd be even if it was one of those tiny little fancy things instead. I just don't tend to walk around listening to music.
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