Image Playground categorically refuses to deal with the fact that I have a full beard and will not accentuate it. But it will try to render me with a goatee or terrible mustache or some small amount of growth that a young person might consider “trying to grow a beard.”
When your collection of stuff reaches a certain point, you realize you’re a curator, conservator, docent, archivist, guard, exhibition designer, etc.
All Of Us from Spoke’s album ”Done”. Also appears on the album _All We Need Of Hell”
Watching The Song Remains The Same for the first time. I was 8 when it was released theatrically.
I just heard myself say “What’s the temp out side? The air sounds cold.” It’s eight Fahrenheit, reference.
Darling Buds So Close
When your shuffled playlist brings back something you forgot you loved. From the Crawdaddy album released circa 1990.
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Song · 1990 · Duration 5:28
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’s stop motion animation was released 60 years ago. It feels like on of the few things left in popular culture that’s still older than me. Not by much, mind you. But still.
Ordered a pair of Shokz Openfit earbuds for work, based on the recommendation of a colleague. I’m impressed. I have an OpenRun bone conduction headset and these buds have better bass while not requiring anything in my ear. Great for surreptitious tunes while maintaining readiness for Teams calls.
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I was confused about how Plex orders files associated with TV series. A little searching lead me to find Plex sorts based on TMDB, which is similar to IMDB. Plex respects parts of your file names. If you name episodes based on TMDB, results are much better. SxxExx maps to TMDB season and episode.
In the CD Re-Rip Projects, I’ve finished the strict alpha portion with music artist by album. Now I have some classical CDs, soundtracks, and lots of compilations. Looking at how the music is shelved, I think I understand what I did, but I may have to re-engineer or re-organise.
Fun thing about the re-rip project is time travel. Put a CD in to be converted and I thought, did enhanced CDs exist when this was released? Sure enough, track 15 was a data track. Of course! Anavoog.com from 1998 included a video and pictures. The site is still live. She’s on Instagram.
Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for my family. Grateful for love. Enjoying a slow day listening to good music, drinking good coffee, and eating good food. Wishing you the best.
Meanwhile, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street is now playing in the assortment of high-rated tracks I have running. Is anyone doing anything like that anymore?
I love the shoegaze and the _nu_gaze. When the guitar chords and loops get super dense in a wall-of-sound kind of way is when I love it most. The baseline and the drums carry me through. Someday if I have time and budget, I’d like to experiment with filters and reverb and a noise generator.
CD Re-Rip Discoveries:
Folks have helped themselves to a few. Have found empty jewel cases and gaps.
So much necessary clean-up. Lots of duplicate tracks stemming from a drive recovery several years ago
I adore Sigur Rós so much that I had already ingested the CDs with a lossless conversion
If I had a small fortune, I’d buy a bunch of CD Jewel Cases, plus archival inner and outer album sleeves. In general, stuff ages well, but some stuff is still pretty fragile.
I alphabetize my music collections, by artist, then album title. This re-rip project also helps me correct “shelving” errors. Some were minor errors putting discs back. Others have been teaching moments. If I learn something new, it’s a good day.
Made it to “r” in the alphabet before finally deciding to go scortched-earth on the iTunes Re-Rip Project: Capture any ratings meta-data. Delete album. Rip fresh as lossless. Add rating data back. Correct album artwork. Far less frustration this way. Yes, and by iTunes, I do mean Apple Music.
