I think the photo below demonstrates what I am trying to say. For chissake, the technology has been around since 1840's. How long exactly does it take to learn about expansion gaps???
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tracks buckle and so does rail system
Ok I stole that title out of The Age. But seriously, why is it so hard to run a decent metropolitan train system in Melbourne? Hundreds of cities around the world are able to do it. But not us. The Minister blames Connex, Connex blames the Minister. Maybe the boogie man is responsible.
I think the photo below demonstrates what I am trying to say. For chissake, the technology has been around since 1840's. How long exactly does it take to learn about expansion gaps???
I think the photo below demonstrates what I am trying to say. For chissake, the technology has been around since 1840's. How long exactly does it take to learn about expansion gaps???
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Free Music - there IS a downside
my years of collecting free (or near free music) have come back to bite me. Despite getting an IPod as a Christmas present (thank you Tim) I have still not listened to one song on it. The reason.... well, it turns out that building an iTunes library with illegal material is not that easy.
Most songs are missing some part of their metadata tags (labels which tell iTunes song title, artist & album). If anyone has ever tried re-labelling 3000+ individual songs, this little program: http://www.mediamonkey.com/ (thank you Michael) will let you do it a weekend instead of a week.
Then, once you realise that many of your files are ccd's and not mp3's/mp4's, this program will let you convert them into a format iTunes can recognise (http://www.nch.com.au/switch/mp3.html?gclid=CMy-qJeAoZgCFShRagodbD3oYw). This should nicely take care of another weekend.
Once you've done that, you can try loading up your CD library. Ofcourse, if most of your CDs were purchased in Asia, in about 50% of cases this involves repeating steps 1 & 2 above. I have calculated that each CD takes me at least 15 min, what with all the copying, converting and re-labelling. Best guess I have about 200 CDs = 200 * 15 / 60 = 50 HOURS!!!!!
You can see why I had to write a blog entry about this.
Most songs are missing some part of their metadata tags (labels which tell iTunes song title, artist & album). If anyone has ever tried re-labelling 3000+ individual songs, this little program: http://www.mediamonkey.com/ (thank you Michael) will let you do it a weekend instead of a week.
Then, once you realise that many of your files are ccd's and not mp3's/mp4's, this program will let you convert them into a format iTunes can recognise (http://www.nch.com.au/switch/mp3.html?gclid=CMy-qJeAoZgCFShRagodbD3oYw). This should nicely take care of another weekend.
Once you've done that, you can try loading up your CD library. Ofcourse, if most of your CDs were purchased in Asia, in about 50% of cases this involves repeating steps 1 & 2 above. I have calculated that each CD takes me at least 15 min, what with all the copying, converting and re-labelling. Best guess I have about 200 CDs = 200 * 15 / 60 = 50 HOURS!!!!!
You can see why I had to write a blog entry about this.
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