Music on my iPod: 15 genres, 66 artists, 117 albums, 1433 songs, 4.5 days, 8.48 GB. I've got 4.25 GB of data on there, too - a copy of my essentials DVD, so I'm down to five and a bit gig. But then, I've burned nearly every CD I own now, so I won't be needing that much more room!
If you're interested, here is my iTunes library in zip format.
I will be hunting around for CD copies of any vinyl that I own. I'm very anti-piracy, both the software and music flavours, but as far as I'm concerned, if I own the vinyl, I've paid for the song, and ripping from someone else's CD is legit. So, anyone have anything by The Beatles or The Police on CD that they wouldn't mind lending me? ;-)
My next job is to improve the metadata. Many of the tracks are missing composer details, and dates are often missing or wrong. I have all the CDs, so it's just a matter of banging it all into iTunes while I'm watching telly or something.
Then I want to put together an iTunes XML to HTML converter. I know that there are such things already, but I fancy doing my own all singing all dancing version. I'll want to do all the indexes - by genre, by artist, by album, by composer, you name it. And I want it to look nice. So far, so easy, I reckon, using Python, PyXML andCheetah. But I'd also like to make the artist, album and track names into links to the appropriate allmusic page, and I don't know if this is even possible. The Mp3 Tag Tools claoms to be able to do it, but it doesn't seem to work. It looks like allmusic has changed the format of its URLs, and not for the better - I can't see any meaning in them whatsoever. Sigh. Perhaps I'll drop them a line...
Posted to iPod by Simon Brunning at September 01, 2004 03:10 PMI've started ripping in the Apple lossless encoder and that takes up a lot more space. Mind you, I'm only up to 10 and a bit gigs. It's a perfect excuse to go out and buy some more CDs.
Posted by: Andy Todd on September 1, 2004 03:47 PMThere is that, yes. Ripping everything is pointing out to me all the stuff I'm missing. The Police, Susanne Vega, most of The Beatles, the list goes on and on...
Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 1, 2004 03:58 PMREMEMBER TO BACK UP THE CONTENT OF YOUR IPOD... OFTEN.
I have heard the screams of people who have lost it or wiped it, only to lose the best part of their collection, and most of their will to live from knowing how long it will take to recreate the same listings again.
-Dept of Useful Advice woz ere.
Posted by: Mark Matthews on September 2, 2004 09:40 AM"My next job is to improve the metadata." no it fecking isn't, stop now! Forget about the metadata plug in the headphones and listen to the music, that's what it's all about. All that other information is freely available via google, this is like storing your records in alphabetical order. Now take off that anorak and chill to your grooves.
Tut
Posted by: El Presidente on September 2, 2004 02:24 PMEl P,
I know that you're not a nerd - but you do *manage* nerds, so you probably ought to make *some* effort to understand them. Of *course* I have to fix the meta data. It's *inevitable*.
But don't worry - thank's to iTunes, I can listen to my music, er, sorry, I mean "chill to my grooves" at the same time.
;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 2, 2004 02:33 PMTut, tut, Simon. You own the media, but you don't own the music, or the right to do whatever you want with it. Only pirates format shift. Format shifting puts musicians in the gutter, sets a bad moral example for impressionable teenagers and is the leading cause of world hunger. The record companies are only doing society a service by cracking down on pirates, so DON'T be one of them.
:)
I'll get my coat[1].
[1] http://swamprat.homeunix.org/index.cgi/2004/01/10#20040110
Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 3, 2004 01:01 PMHi! ya apparently the allmusic link generation from tags no longer works in Mp3 Tag Tools, they seem to have changed the database query format (guess they were not too happy about progs querying their DB). If you get any hints of the new one, do let me know at MTT's project page...
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