Podding along
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caddymanOne of the things I have enjoyed about ripping music to my new iPod is the rediscovery of CDs I forgot I’d got – I knew I had a copy of Led Zeppelin II for instance, but had completely forgotten that I also have Physical Graffiti. On the other hand, now and again I find myself wondering what I have done with CDs (or indeed whether I actually owned them…). I no longer, it seems (unless it is misfiled horribly) own Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside on CD. I’m sure I used to. I know that I used to have it on vinyl, but suddenly I’m not sure.
The other thing is when you realise that a certain CD doesn’t contain what you thought it did. I have cheerfully ignored, for instance, my copy of The Moody Blues Collection because I have a copy of Moody Blues’ Greatest Hits. The two have sat together on the shelf for years, but I have consistently chosen the latter over the former because it is a 24bit remaster with more tracks.
Somewhere down the line I had lost the fact that apart from Go Now the songs do not repeat across the two selections. The selection on the collection includes material from the Edge/Pinder/Thomas era (along with one Denny Laine), while the Greatest Hits, with the aforementioned exception of Go Now are from the much longer and rather more successful Hayward/Lodge/Edge era. I should have known this if I had paid more attention to my own music collection.
I still have just under half of the music collection to drop onto the iPod and then I can start creating play lists and stuff. At the moment all I have done is isolate the classical from the rest. I shall start being a little more clever once everything is there.
The other thing is when you realise that a certain CD doesn’t contain what you thought it did. I have cheerfully ignored, for instance, my copy of The Moody Blues Collection because I have a copy of Moody Blues’ Greatest Hits. The two have sat together on the shelf for years, but I have consistently chosen the latter over the former because it is a 24bit remaster with more tracks.
Somewhere down the line I had lost the fact that apart from Go Now the songs do not repeat across the two selections. The selection on the collection includes material from the Edge/Pinder/Thomas era (along with one Denny Laine), while the Greatest Hits, with the aforementioned exception of Go Now are from the much longer and rather more successful Hayward/Lodge/Edge era. I should have known this if I had paid more attention to my own music collection.
I still have just under half of the music collection to drop onto the iPod and then I can start creating play lists and stuff. At the moment all I have done is isolate the classical from the rest. I shall start being a little more clever once everything is there.
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Date: 2008-12-22 04:11 pm (UTC)You may also want to have a go with Geneious and see what that come up with - although by default if only does 25 tack lists, but you can tinker with the iTunes settings and get 50, 100 tracks per Geneious list.
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Date: 2008-12-22 04:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-22 04:28 pm (UTC)Pah! Joe Public and their ignorance eh?
* edit - GraceNote
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Date: 2008-12-22 05:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-22 09:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-23 02:32 am (UTC)This spoken while listening to "How The West Was Won." He has always been a bit pretentious and should have shushed between songs, but I suppose that's traditionally the privilege of a singer in a hard-rock band.