From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #127 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 1 2010 Volume 18 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem [Tom Clark ] Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem [lep ] Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem [FSThomas ] Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds [Jeff Margrave ] NPs on Letterman [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds [2fs ] How'd I miss it? [2fs ] Re: Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:56:12 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem I don't have any familiarity with Windows, but usually when you see text represented like that it means your file permissions do not allow you to edit the files. On Mac/Unix I'd just run a mass 'chown' on the whole directory, but again I'm not sure if you can do that on Windows. - -tc On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Al Masciocchi wrote: > Here's my problem. I have iTunes on my PC. And before anyone says it, I know the solution is switch to Apple. That's the plan, but dad is fourth inline behind the three kids and number three just got her macbook, so I'll be next. But in the meantime I have this problem. > > > I have my music - about 21,000 song - on an external hard drive. I direct iTunes to look to this drive and everything had been fine. Then my laptop got fried and I had to replace it. The old laptop was running Windows xp, the new one is Windows 7. I thought it would be simple - load on iTunes, direct it to the folder on the external hard drive and I'm off and running. And that appeared to be the case except for the lost playlists but they can be recreated albeit slowly. > > > Problem arose when I went I to recreate one of those playlists. I was making a smart playlist using the genre field. I went to change that field (right click on the song, then Get Info, then the Info tab) for a track and couldn't. All the track data appeared to be there but it was ghost writing (don't know the name for that, where it's there but can't be clicked on or edited). I experimented by going to the actual mp3 file and changing the song title - which I could do - but that didn't affect the title in iTunes. > > I tried updating iTunes from version 9.03.15 to 9.2 but that didn't help. > > The songs play fine. I haven't tried to update my iPod yet because I haven't recreated all the playlists > > > So, any suggestions on what to do to turn this ghost information into something I can change/edit? > > > Thanks, > Al ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:15:15 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem Sebastian says: > -- Al Masciocchi is rumored to have mumbled on 29. Juni > 2010 22:16:31 -0400 regarding Lurker With An iTunes Problem: >> I experimented by going to the actual mp3 file >> and changing the song title - which I could do - but that didn't affect >> the title in iTunes. > > Right, it might actually make things worse because iTunes won't be able to > find tracks you renamed outside of iTunes. I'm only guessing here, but could > it be that iTunes isn't allowed to write that external hard drive? I know > next to nothing about Windows 7 and its permissions model, but it sounds as > though iTunes might have read-only access to your library ... just an FYI, i use itunes on windows XP, and store my mp3s on a USB hard drive. i HATE using any defaults for where things are stored with pretty much any software, so i specified in itunes the directory on the USB drive where i store my mp3s. at any rate, i just created a playlist, and it seems itunes stores playlists, as well as other information in the MyDocuments directory, specifically a directory called My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ i.e. the playlists are NOT stored where my mp3s are stored. my point being that you may need files in that My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ directory to get everything realigned. it sounds like you can't retrieve them from your original XP system, but perhaps you have them available in a backup. but i'd be REALLY careful if you want to try to retrieve those files and recreate your playlists and tags. someone more knowledgeable about itunes might be able to chime in here. i hope this is useful rather than confusing. (personally, i'm going to look for a way to get itunes to store the My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ information somewhere in the same neighborhood as where my MP3s are, so they get backed when my MP3s get backed up. it seems like if my C: drive crashed, i'd have all my mp3s on my H: drives, but itunes data would be lost - i.e. what you've experienced.) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:18:03 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Lurker With An iTunes Problem On 6/29/2010 10:16 PM, Al Masciocchi wrote: > I went to change that field (right click on the song, then Get Info, > then the Info tab) for a track and couldn't. All the track data > appeared to be there but it was ghost writing (don't know the name for > that, where it's there but can't be clicked on or edited). Shot in the dark guess here: Right-click on the iTunes shortcut you use to start the program and open the Properties. Under the Compatibility tab click "Run this program as an administrator" under the Privilege Level settings. Click OK and start up iTunes. It may be that the library file that iTunes builds & maintains is in a folder where the application only has (or thinks it only has) read permissions. I haven't had that problem, myself. I did a similar upgrade from XP to 7 about two months ago... - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds This Metafilter thread is about Lenny Kravitz joining a street choir doing one of his songs, but this story in the middle of it is about Simple Minds; I like both. http://www.metafilter.com/93297/Lenny-Kravitz-crashes-the-VOP-Choir-in-New-Orleans-for-Fly-Away#3160610 I used to be Charlie Burchill (the guitarist) in a Simple Minds tribute band roaming the London pub circuit. This must have been back in the early 90s... We played a lot of the stuff that the Minds no longer played live, and, of course, the hits that everyone wanted to hear - it was great fun, if a little obsessive. One evening, at The Standard on Walthamstow's lovely Blackhorse Road, we were backstage getting our shit together before going on when one of our FOH crew came breathlessly back stage... "Charlie's here! Charlie's out front!" "Charlie?" "Yeah, Charlie fucking Burchill! You!!" I near as anything shit myself right there on the spot, but instead followed our guy out and he pointed across the smoky room to a short guy. He'd done nothing to disguise himself, but people weren't bothering him - either they didn't (expect to) see Charlie Burchill in the Walhamstow Standard, or they were being respectfully chilled about it - but it definitely was he. So we get up to do the set and for 78 minutes I'm 100% aware that the guy who wrote every single note I'm was trying to play was out behind those lights somewhere; the guy whose little playing idiosyncrasies I was emulating, pitch-perfect and professionally was watching me pretend to be him. My brain turned to mush, the weight of all this ridiculousness squashing it dead. My fingers kept moving though, and thank god for muscle memory - every little Charlie twist and flatten of the hands came forth and I played like I was him, like he'd given me his brain by standing thirty feet away to replace my own that was currently trying to escape through my ears. I was sublime... We finished. We encored. We finished again and went backstage. "Did anyone see him? Did he stay? Is he still out there?" A knock at the door - our FOH guy again: "I just spoke to Charlie - he wants to come backstage..." "Shit!" My brain woke up and I probably did shit myself - I was going to meet Charlie Burchill with shit in my pants, sweating my nuts off after parodying him in front of himself for the last hour and a half. "Bring him back then!" Charlie Burchill is a great guy, a stocky, short Scot from Glasgow with an infectious smile and a rock-stars aura. We chatted for only a few minutes, and I can only really remember one line of what he said to me. And to this day, I don't know whether it was a compliment, or an insult: "You know, until I watched you, I didn't realise just how much work that all was..." (Postscript: 10 years later I'm running a karaoke show in Central London and a group of guys come in. One looks vaguely familiar. He comes over to ask to sing a song. "What name do I put on the ticket?" "Fucking hell man," he says, "I'm Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds. And so are you...") "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:35:19 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: NPs on Letterman ...very last-minute (the show starts in minutes) and excuse me if someone already notified the list (I am on digest), but...The New Pornographers are on Letterman tonight / Wed. / NOW (well, I assume in about 50 mins from now, anyway...) MLS _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:13:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds Great story! On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jeff Margrave wrote: > This Metafilter thread is about Lenny Kravitz joining a street choir doing > one of his songs, but this story in the middle of it is about Simple Minds; > I like both. > > > http://www.metafilter.com/93297/Lenny-Kravitz-crashes-the-VOP-Choir-in-New-Orleans-for-Fly-Away#3160610 > > I used to be Charlie Burchill (the guitarist) in a Simple Minds tribute > band roaming the London pub circuit. This must have been back in the early > 90s... We played a lot of the stuff that the Minds no longer played live, > and, of course, the hits that everyone wanted to hear - it was great fun, if > a little obsessive. > > One evening, at The Standard on Walthamstow's lovely Blackhorse Road, we > were backstage getting our shit together before going on when one of our FOH > crew came breathlessly back stage... "Charlie's here! Charlie's out front!" > "Charlie?" "Yeah, Charlie fucking Burchill! You!!" > > I near as anything shit myself right there on the spot, but instead > followed our guy out and he pointed across the smoky room to a short guy. > He'd done nothing to disguise himself, but people weren't bothering him - > either they didn't (expect to) see Charlie Burchill in the Walhamstow > Standard, or they were being respectfully chilled about it - but it > definitely was he. > > So we get up to do the set and for 78 minutes I'm 100% aware that the guy > who wrote every single note I'm was trying to play was out behind those > lights somewhere; the guy whose little playing idiosyncrasies I was > emulating, pitch-perfect and professionally was watching me pretend to be > him. My brain turned to mush, the weight of all this ridiculousness > squashing it dead. My fingers kept moving though, and thank god for muscle > memory - every little Charlie twist and flatten of the hands came forth and > I played like I was him, like he'd given me his brain by standing thirty > feet away to replace my own that was currently trying to escape through my > ears. I was sublime... > > We finished. We encored. We finished again and went backstage. "Did anyone > see him? Did he stay? Is he still out there?" A knock at the door - our FOH > guy again: "I just spoke to Charlie - he wants to come backstage..." "Shit!" > My brain woke up and I probably did shit myself - I was going to meet > Charlie Burchill with shit in my pants, sweating my nuts off after parodying > him in front of himself for the last hour and a half. "Bring him back then!" > > Charlie Burchill is a great guy, a stocky, short Scot from Glasgow with an > infectious smile and a rock-stars aura. We chatted for only a few minutes, > and I can only really remember one line of what he said to me. And to this > day, I don't know whether it was a compliment, or an insult: > > "You know, until I watched you, I didn't realise just how much work that > all was..." > > (Postscript: 10 years later I'm running a karaoke show in Central London > and a group of guys come in. One looks vaguely familiar. He comes over to > ask to sing a song. "What name do I put on the ticket?" "Fucking hell man," > he says, "I'm Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds. And so are you...") > > > > "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my > brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:47:06 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: How'd I miss it? I just discovered that, despite getting hold of "Where Did the Ordinary People Go?" and "Spiral" I never managed to get a copy of XTC's "Say It"... I have a whole mess of relatively rare XTC tracks floating around for trade, if desired... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:24:53 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Lenny Kravitz and Simple Minds That was great - thanks! - -tc On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Jeff Margrave wrote: > This Metafilter thread is about Lenny Kravitz joining a street choir doing one of his songs, but this story in the middle of it is about Simple Minds; I like both. > > http://www.metafilter.com/93297/Lenny-Kravitz-crashes-the-VOP-Choir-in-New-Orleans-for-Fly-Away#3160610 > > I used to be Charlie Burchill (the guitarist) in a Simple Minds tribute band roaming the London pub circuit. This must have been back in the early 90s... We played a lot of the stuff that the Minds no longer played live, and, of course, the hits that everyone wanted to hear - it was great fun, if a little obsessive. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #127 ********************************