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Cultural difference

Posted on Thursday, November 04 , 2010 by John

Accused file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rasset was yesterday hit with a $1.5 million fine for downloading and distributing tunes by Richard Marx, Journey, Def Leppard, the Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, and others. Each of the 24 songs at issue in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, On the web

Recreating the correct links to files in iTunes

Posted on Monday, March 15 , 2010 by John

The Mac mini I set up with Snow Leopard Server had previously been acting as a server using the client version of OS X. While I was setting up the server again after installing the Server operating system, I decided … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Audio

Do as I say, not as I do!

Posted on Tuesday, December 08 , 2009 by John

Given the effort the music industry puts into chasing file downloaders for lost revenue, you would think that they would be punctilious about setting a good example to their customers. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The Canadian Recording Industry … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Economics

Expensive headphone recommendation

Posted on Sunday, August 16 , 2009 by John

Matt Mullenweg, the father of WordPress (which is what this blog is powered by) has a really nicely designed blog over at ma.tt. But that that’s not what caught my eye today. I was reading his headphone recommendations and came … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, On the web

Getting the most out of iTunes

Posted on Monday, March 09 , 2009 by John

Here’s a good article on Gizmodo, which lists a bunch of useful additions to iTunes, some for the Mac, some for Windows and even a couple to allow you use Linux to play from iTunes libraries. Take a look.

Posted in Apple, Audio

Removing duplicate files in iTunes

Posted on Saturday, March 07 , 2009 by John

I have been moving our music library to a new external disc drive this weekend, and after running the consolidate command from iTunes (File > Library > Consolidate Library) I noticed that although I only have each track listed once … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Audio

Get your audio books set up correctly in iTunes

Posted on Saturday, October 18 , 2008 by John

I found this excellent tip on lifehacker.com. If you have ripped audio books from CD into iTunes, normally iTunes will think that you have added music. Since iTunes 8.0 it is possible to reclassify the tracks, so that iTunes recognizes … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Audio

Cory Doctorow: A suicide note from the music industry

Posted on Tuesday, July 29 , 2008 by John

Following up on the last posting I made here, I see that Cory Doctorow has written an article in today’s Guardian, about how the music industry is slowly commiting suicide: This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Economics

Harebrained scheme

Posted on Thursday, July 24 , 2008 by John

I can’t recall having seen such an idiotic idea for a long time: Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing. [British] … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, In the UK, On the web

Good software to catalog books, CDs and DVDs

Posted on Tuesday, January 29 , 2008 by John

Bookpedia – you can also, of course display the catalog as a list! Until now I have for many years used Readerware to catalog our (1100+) books and (800 or so) CDs, and Delicious Library to catalog our much smaller … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Computing, Language / Culture

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