4 posts tagged “music”

So far I've only ripped enough of my CDs to fill up 75% of my iPod Mini. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Over the weekend I had a laptop meltdown. I have no idea what happened, but I do know I lost all of the tracks that were stored on that drive. Lucky for me, all of my songs were still on my iPod.

However, as far as i can tell, there's no way to say "synch from iPod" rather than "synch from local drive" in iTunes. So, what do you do? At first, i tried to just import my music folders back in; straight from my iPod (they're hidden, but all of the files are there). This worked in so far as I had all of my files, but i had lost my play count, ratings, etc (any metadata not stored directly in the file).

I decided to look for an iPod "ripper" and came across iPodRip. I downloaded the windows version, which isn't as fully featured as the Mac version, but all i needed to do was click the "Import All" button and about an hour later I had everything i wanted back on my laptop. Perhaps not ethical in Apple's view, but it sure is convenient for situations like this.

I had some high hopes when i read that allmusic.com was redesigning. Their old site was such crap -- mainly their javascript-based links (way to break the web, guys!).

Today was the official launch. Upon my first visit I am greeted with this (Firefox 0.92):

Notice: You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above for Windows.

So much for progress.

Pressure Chief.

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html

"MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (HLN) - A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod. "