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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 case cost her $62,500. Meanwhile, the same offense in Germany might cost you . . . → Read More: Cultural difference 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 to also combine the existing external data drive with a second drive and make . . . → Read More: Recreating the correct links to files in iTunes 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 Association is currently being sued for not paying copyright on some 300 000 songs, . . . → Read More: Do as I say, not as I do! 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 to his remarks on ear phones for travelling. He swears by Logitech’s Ultimate Ears . . . → Read More: Expensive headphone recommendation 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. 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 in iTunes, I have two files for each track in the iTunes music directory . . . → Read More: Removing duplicate files in iTunes 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 them as audiobooks, which means that they will appear in the audiobooks section in . . . → Read More: Get your audio books set up correctly in iTunes 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 service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and . . . → Read More: Cory Doctorow: A suicide note from the music industry 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] Ministers are backing proposals that would enable millions of broadband users to pay an . . . → Read More: Harebrained scheme 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 collection of DVDs. The rational behind that was that Readerware is cross-platform (Windows, . . . → Read More: Good software to catalog books, CDs and DVDs |
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