From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #562 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 6 2008 Volume 16 : Number 562 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar [Rex ] Re: AirPort Express? [Tom Clark ] an Oregonite no more? ["Mark Gloster" ] 40 yrs ago today [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: REAP: Klaus Dinger of Neu! ["(0% rh)" ] RE: an Oregonite no more? ["Marc Alberts" ] starfucking ["michael wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:23:59 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar So I'm finally adding a bunch of album art to iTunes. But every once in a while I screw up and put the wrong artwork on the wrong record, or I find a lesserly shittier-looking jpeg of an album cover. But when I try to drag it and drop it to replace the old shitty art, it (usually) whirs away and shows the new image while a little window runs through all the tracks that are getting replaced. But as soon as that process is done, it immediately reverts to the old shitty image. (Except for when it doesn't, and the new image sticks, which is about 1/3 of the time, but I can't discern any pattern as to what I'm doing differently between the times when it does work and the times when it doesn't... and I've been doing it a lot.) Any ideas? My ten discs worth of the Kingston Trio Guard Years box set totals up to a lot of songs to be stuck with a fuzzy compressed little blip-image. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:18:32 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar Try selecting all the tracks for the album then bring up the Get Info window and past the new image into the little box for artwork. That should overwrite the old crappy image. Dragging and dropping just adds your image to the one that was already there. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:39:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > Try selecting all the tracks for the album then bring up the Get Info > window and past the new image into the little box for artwork. That > should overwrite the old crappy image. Dragging and dropping just > adds your image to the one that was already there. > Brilliant. I never would've though of that because I have my "get info" box set to the second tab, where there's no image, but you can change all the text fields. Thank you. While I'm at it, where does iTunes actually store the images? The "artwork" folders just look like a bunch of redirects or something. - -Rex - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:16:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Convesations with the Step, cont'd, apologies to Abbot & Costello In this one we're both looking over laptop screens at each other. Stepdaughter: Rex? Me: Yes? SD: What album is "Blackbird" on? Me: Oh, the White Album. SD: Yeah, what album? Me: The White Album. Wife: That's what it's called, Honey. The White Album. Me: I guess it's really called The Beatles, but everybody calls it The White Album. SD: Is it this? (Turns around laptop to display image of White Album cover) Me: Yeah. SD: (Pauses) Rex? Me: Yeah, sweetie? SD: Do you have the whole London Calling album? Me: Of course. SD. Cool. I need to get that from you. Disembodied Voice of Joe Strummer in My Mind: He who fucks nuns will later join the church! Me: We'll see. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:34:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Rex wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jason Brown > wrote: > >> Try selecting all the tracks for the album then bring up the Get Info >> window and past the new image into the little box for artwork. That >> should overwrite the old crappy image. Dragging and dropping just >> adds your image to the one that was already there. >> > Brilliant. I never would've though of that because I have my "get > info" box > set to the second tab, where there's no image, but you can change > all the > text fields. Thank you. > > While I'm at it, where does iTunes actually store the images? The > "artwork" > folders just look like a bunch of redirects or something. The image is embedded in the music file. I wrote an AppleScript that runs through your whole collection and copies all artwork into a separate folder. It also produces a text file listing all files that don't have artwork. I did this for my re-ripping project so I don't lose artwork I had to hunt around for. Just ask and I'll send it to ya. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:53:30 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > > > The image is embedded in the music file. I wrote an AppleScript that runs > through your whole collection and copies all artwork into a separate folder. > It also produces a text file listing all files that don't have artwork. I > did this for my re-ripping project so I don't lose artwork I had to hunt > around for. Just ask and I'll send it to ya. Why, just such a thing would be awesomely useful to me. Thank you. I'm also a little mystified as to why the "Get Album Artwork" function doesn't do anything for me any more, whereas it used to find at least some stuff. I don't expect it to be perfect or anything, but I've run it a couple times recently, and things as elementary as Beatles, Zeppelin and Pretenders catalog records still don't have any artwork. I don't even recall manually stripping "[Reissue]" or "[US]" off of those particular tags, as I am wont to do... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:17:01 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Rex wrote: > I'm also a little mystified as to why the "Get Album Artwork" function > doesn't do anything for me any more, whereas it used to find at least some > stuff. I don't expect it to be perfect or anything, but I've run it a > couple times recently, and things as elementary as Beatles, Zeppelin and > Pretenders catalog records still don't have any artwork. I don't even > recall manually stripping "[Reissue]" or "[US]" off of those > particular tags, as I am wont to do... I think it just pulls the images from the iTunes store so it won't work for obscure stuff or stuff like the Beatles which arent available for purchase via iTunes. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:13:10 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Perhaps the stupitest iTunes question evar On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > I think it just pulls the images from the iTunes store so it won't > work for obscure stuff or stuff like the Beatles which arent available > for purchase via iTunes. If you're a Mac user, there's a wiget that grabs album art at Amazon. But for nice size jpegs, I like this site . - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:40:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: AirPort Express? As long as we're discussing various Apple products... Does anyone have this little widget? Reading up on it, I see it can also do all kindsa networky stuff - but all I want to know is how well it works letting me play the music in my iTunes on my laptop over my stereo speakers. Apparently I need to buy a special connector as well (I'm guessing one end is all goofy and plugs into the thingy, while the other end's a standard stereo component jack?) - izzat so? The newest one uses 802.11n (which will be the name of a band in ten years) - - will that play nice w/my current wireless setup which is 802.11g? As I said: I don't need to use its networking capabilities, I'm interested only in interfacing wit my home stereo. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:19:22 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: AirPort Express? On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:40 PM, 2fs wrote: > As long as we're discussing various Apple products... > > Does anyone have this little widget? Reading up on it, I see it can > also do > all kindsa networky stuff - but all I want to know is how well it > works > letting me play the music in my iTunes on my laptop over my stereo > speakers. > Apparently I need to buy a special connector as well (I'm guessing > one end > is all goofy and plugs into the thingy, while the other end's a > standard > stereo component jack?) - izzat so? > > The newest one uses 802.11n (which will be the name of a band in ten > years) > - will that play nice w/my current wireless setup which is 802.11g? > As I > said: I don't need to use its networking capabilities, I'm > interested only > in interfacing wit my home stereo. Its primary purpose is as a WiFi extender, so to use it to push music around your house you need to grab the appropriate connector: analog L/ R or digital SPDIF. The Express' 802.11n is backward compatible with 802.11a/b/g so that's not an issue. I have two of them in my house and they function flawlessly. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:09:59 -0700 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: an Oregonite no more? Hi kids. In case this hasn't already gotten out of the bag, I accepted a job offer from "the big guys" early last week and yesterday finally cleared the background checking process. Lots of cool and interesting work, and I think their checks will clear! I'll be moving up to the Redmond area soon- probably Woodinville. I should be starting at the beginning of May. Hope you Seattlites like your new neighbor. I generally keep to myself and am fairly obsequious, in case you don't. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:05:41 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: 40 yrs ago today _http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid25544.aspx_ (http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid25544.aspx) Soul control James Brown rescues Boston, and a whole lot more **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 04:13:49 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: REAP: Klaus Dinger of Neu! Sweeney says: > ...Ironically, for a long time, mine was a different flavor of the same > line...it was not long after my ex-brother-in-law Tim died...and I thought the > line was "1-800-REAPER / Ask for Teem" (as in "Holy Grail" -- "There sre those > who call him....Teem" -- which is often how we addressed my bro-in-law). > Kinda freaked me out until I sussed the "correct" lyric... re: misheard lyrics: a while back, i went on this bowie bender. only it ended up a bit more, because i finally caved and sort of went on a little shopping binge (almost all my bowie's on lp.) (miscellaneous note: i rarely have bought cds of albums i have on lp. the one exception was robyn's stuff, and so now there's bowie. i considered counting magazine, but i don't really think of their output as "a catalogue" (like a catalogue has to be so damn huge?) but maybe i should count magazine, as i have their first three studio albums and a random collection called "rays and hail" (i think that might be a pun) that i weaseled from an ex-boyfriend then friend because it had a lyric book, and just generally felt i deserved it, for no reason other than i love magazine way more than he does.) at any rate, my new bowie cds collection includes lyrics in the cd books. i know that a few of his lps didn't have lyrics - definitely not "station to station" or "low" (because there were some lines i couldn't get even after playing them for years and years so if they had been there, i would have noticed.) (speaking of STS: quail, i have seen the tree of life. hallelujah.) so song #2 on low is "breaking glass" and is all of like 5 lines. it's actually one of my favourite bowie songs, but apparently, i've had 2 of the lines wrong for quite a while. the lyrics in their (correct) entirety: "baby, I've been, breaking glass in your room again listen don't look at the carpet i drew something awful on it. see you're such a wonderful person but you got problems (oh-oh-oh-oh) i'll never touch you." well, the "i'll never touch you" line i thought was "let me touch you." (seems i thought it had a happy ending.) but the weird misheard lyric one was that i always thought he was saying "don't look at the carpet / i'm doing something awful on it." although, truth be told, that will likely remain what he says, at least in my head. i think i like the misheard lyric better - it's more vague, and quite a bit more creepy. and the tone of the song fits with the idea that you really wouldn't want to know what he's doing over there. oh, and in the not-synchronicity thing (the thing that's like the opposite of "out of sight, out of mind" when you hear a word or a factoid that you didn't know, and then you notice it being used like three times that very week), i didn't know who the hell neu! was, but, as it seems to go, a day or two after this thread started, the little 33-1/3 bowie book i'm (still) reading was talking about about the influence of neu! on the album "low". also, said book said something weird about iggy pop that seemed to imply he might like midgets or something? (i might be getting this wrong, but the author said something about the song "tiny girls" being sort of...not the best thing to write given his proclivities, or something.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:23:45 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: an Oregonite no more? Markg wrote: > Hi kids. In case this hasn't already gotten out of the bag, I accepted > a job > offer from "the big guys" early last week and yesterday finally cleared > the > background checking process. Lots of cool and interesting work, and I > think > their checks will clear! > > I'll be moving up to the Redmond area soon- probably Woodinville. I > should be > starting at the beginning of May. > > Hope you Seattlites like your new neighbor. I generally keep to myself > and am > fairly obsequious, in case you don't. Mark--welcome to The Evil EmpireT. We look forward to fitting you with all standard Borg equipment, including the cool laser thingy. Also--the bins at the sides of the building doors are for "recycling" any iPods or iPhones you may have on your person, and we'll be by to check your laptop to make sure Live is your search engine of choice. Oh, and if you get one of those emails that says your email was chosen for a large cash prize to be given out in Euros or Pounds Sterling, it might actually be true--check the GAL and make sure that the person is listed before replying, though. Borg designee 210286IDSS2 Oh--by the way. Woodinville is pretty nice, but make sure you have easy access to non-405 commuting. In the mornings, for some reason, that stretch from Bothell/Woodinville down to about 85th is a slog. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:58:36 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: starfucking You'll never guess who was on our plane from Maui to L.A. on Friday. Seriously, I was in shock. You will NEVER, EVER believe this, but.steady yourself.we were blessed with the personage of none other than.Robert Patrick. Yep, that's right. Mr. T-1000 Terminator 2 himself!!! Is that *fucking cool* or what?!? Oh yeah, I guess he was in a bunch of X-Files episodes too. Seriously, I couldn't exactly place him at first sight. Rather short, but with one of those faces that you immediately recognize (looking at IMDB now, his most memorable role might have been in "From Dusk to Dawn II", which was about as bad as it gets). He was back in coach with the rest of us, though that may have more to do with Aloha and ATA's near-simultaneous collapse and stranding of 10,000 people in Hawaii - and the resulting scramble to find any way at all off the islands - than lack of celebrity status. He seemed nice enough in person. He was also chatting with another dude at baggage claim that I probably should have recognized; a musician (had a sweet flight case), short, blond dye job on an overly large head, cheesy chin beard, and at least two uniformed drivers elbowing people out of the way to get his bags off first. Did I mention that I hate L.A.? Rambling, Michael ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #562 ********************************