From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #300 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 22 2010 Volume 15 : Number 300 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 2 questions [Paul Schreiber ] Re: 2 questions [Michael Pearce ] RE: 2 questions [JoAnn Whetsell ] Re: Trying to identify a song... ["Joe Casadonte" ] Re: A present from Jane Siberry [Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: 2 questions JoAnn wrote: > 1. Does anyone know a good way to do custom backups of iTunes stuff? I want > to backup more than just purchased items but not everything. Last time I > tried to do this I think everything got saved as audio files, and it took up > 49 CDs. Buy a 500 GB USB hard drive for $50 and back up the whole thing. Some recent prices: Paul [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:37:33 -0800 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: 2 questions JoAnn Whetsell wrote: >1. Does anyone know a good way to do custom backups of iTunes stuff? I want >to backup more than just purchased items but not everything. Last time I >tried to do this I think everything got saved as audio files, and it took up >49 CDs. There really is only one good way to do it, and it costs about the same as 49 CDs: get an external hard drive and drag the whole mess over onto it. Fry's has been loss-leading 500-gig USB drives for $49 lately. That holds the equivalent of 600 CDs. Unless you have a Mac, be careful: For some reason Microsoft doesn't want you to just simply drag a folderful of stuff from one drive to another. Also, the Windows version of iTunes renames all of the songs to four-letter arcane code names. But at least you have them and can re-import if necessary. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:58:33 -0500 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: RE: 2 questions Thanks, Paul and Michael, for the responses. I do have a Mac, but unfortunately I don't have any disposable income. I think for right now I will back up my purchased items, and I will put an external hard drive on my list of things to get when money isn't so tight. JoAnn > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:37:33 -0800 > To: ecto@smoe.org > From: mp@moonmac.com > Subject: Re: 2 questions > > JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > > >1. Does anyone know a good way to do custom backups of iTunes stuff? I want > >to backup more than just purchased items but not everything. Last time I > >tried to do this I think everything got saved as audio files, and it took up > >49 CDs. > > There really is only one good way to do it, and it costs about the > same as 49 CDs: get an external hard drive and drag the whole mess > over onto it. Fry's has been loss-leading 500-gig USB drives for $49 > lately. That holds the equivalent of 600 CDs. > > Unless you have a Mac, be careful: For some reason Microsoft doesn't > want you to just simply drag a folderful of stuff from one drive to > another. Also, the Windows version of iTunes renames all of the songs > to four-letter arcane code names. But at least you have them and can > re-import if necessary. > > Michael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:21:00 -0500 From: "Joe Casadonte" Subject: Re: Trying to identify a song... On 18 Dec 2010, Joe Casadonte wrote: > De-lurking here, looking for some help identifying a song. My friends > were unable to help but the talent pool of people here is probably a > lot better at this sort of thing, so I'm trying you folks next. A couple people have listened to the song but so far no one has been able to identify it. Does anyone know of a good online community (besides this one, natch) that I could post to? Thanks for the help! - -- Regards, joe Joe Casadonte jcasadonte@northbound-train.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:00:27 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: A present from Jane Siberry - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Siberry Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM Subject: MUSELETTER music for you dear everyone, imagine a pine tree in the forest a few winter birds hop among the branches tree tops catch the wind and translate yet stillness abounds you remember a bunny is busy with something beneath the tree look! a present for you! love, jane siberry * **** ********* ************ **************** * * * *SHUSHAN* *CHILD* please know you are welcome to forward this gift to others. - - - - * * *FACEBOOK (most active) * *TWITTER * *janesiberry.com * - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:18:12 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: A present from Jane Siberry But I already got this present, can I return it for cash? Kidding, Tim On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jane Siberry > Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM > Subject: MUSELETTER music for you > > dear everyone, > > imagine a pine tree in the forest > > a few winter birds hop among the branches > > tree tops catch the wind and translate > > yet stillness abounds > > you remember > > a bunny is busy with something beneath the tree > > look! a present for you! > > > > love, > > jane siberry > > > > * > **** > > ********* > > ************ > > **************** > > * > > * > > * > > > > *SHUSHAN* > > *CHILD* > > > > > > > > please know you are welcome to forward this gift to others. > > > > > > > > > > - - - > > > * > * > *FACEBOOK (most active)< > http://www.facebook.com/pages/jane-siberry/276077755226> > * > > *TWITTER * > *janesiberry.com * > > -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:42:25 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Re: A present from Jane Siberry Hello, Paul and everyone: I found the "present" earlier today when Jane's "museletter" showed up in my in-box this afternoon. Haven't unzipped them yet, but will soon. I figure some /Child/ tracks will be especially welcome this Friday night. Usually every Christmas Eve, I take my media players - an Apple iPod Classic and a FLAC-friendly Hacha - and a Chinese takeaway dinner to my local Unitarian Universalist congregation (I'm a member) and do a solo feast between candlelight services - usually a good two hours' breather after one group of congregants goes home (the families) and before the next one (mostly adults) show up for the pre-midnight service. This year, two of my favorite musicians begged off playing the late service for personal reasons I won't leak here. So I intend to have /Shushan/ loaded one of my players so I can quietly slip away should the replacement music prove especially lame. Thank goodness for Jane. I mean it. Philip David http://promenadedigital.net/ 2010.12.21-22 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #300 ***************************