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Mar8
A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...
1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?
2. what is the minimum bitrate you will allow in your collection?
3. How are you dealing with a collection larger than your ipod ie do you sync or do you drag or do you semi sync???
4. What would you use to clean up the collection (make sure it is labelled correctly, has nice pictures where appropriate, and even dedupe record (this would be nice)
My collection is bigger than my 'pod, what you want to do is set up a load of smart playlists in itunes... Then you can just sync certain playlists. I use the "My Rating" quite a lot on mp3s, so I have a smart playlist where my rating is higher than two stars, then sync that playlist... I sync a load of other playlists, including 100 random tunes, and all the most recently ripped stuff, plus new books and podcasts I've not listened to yet, you can do all this with smart playlists.
I have a range of bitrates, though everything is MP3. When I rip something myself I do it at 192k, but I don't suppose I can hear a difference with 128k (definitely not now with this ear infection). I have a load of audio books at 16k, and other things at various rates, as a lot of it's downloaded.
I'm not using any tools to tag things or add artwork, I do that by hand, mostly I'm good at doing it when I acquire a new choon. If you have an itunes account, that can grab cover art automatically, or there's a yahoo widget (you need yahoo widget engine) that supposedly does it, it kept stalling on me though so I gave up on it.
Someone gave me a DVD with 40 years of the top 100 billboard charts on it, that boosted my collection in one hit, but it's mostly crap that I don't listen to... I don't tend to delete mp3s though as you never know when you might want a tune, so I use the "my rating" thing again - 1 star means I don't like it, so all my playlists have a "and my rating is not one star" rule, then 2 - 5 stars are for rating how good it is, and 0 stars just means I've not rated it yet. Another tagging thing that I think I invented and am the best at (...) is being sly with the genre tag. I put in the genre as things like "Rock / Funk / Live / Bootleg / Instrumental" divided up by slashes. This means that I don't browse by genre any more, but I have a smart playlist for every tag instead, ie "Where genre contains 'rock'" and so on. One day a music player will catch up with me and make genres by dividing up the genre tag by slashes automatically (I hoped to extend the ipod linux player, ha), but until then my way works for me. I really don't have many funk rock
instrumentals, that was just for illustrative purposes.
While I'm indulgently prattling on about this (hey I'm going to repost this on my blog, can't go wasting content like this) I wish the player knew to divide up artists by some delimiter or other, so that if I have a track by Super Furry Animals & GLC it would be listed under Super Furry Animals and under GLC when browsing by artist, instead of adding a new artist called "Super Furry Animals & GLC", that's just annoying. Probably "Album by artist" is the tag for this... Also I wish I was consistent with my delimiters, slashes are good for dividing things up, except for artists, I don't want it messing with my vast AC/DC library.
How do you use your IPOD?
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Nov2
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Big Boy Bad Bo new album is here... would you like it?
Those bad bad boys at Anglo Plugging have seen me right (I knew keeping them sweet by adding Scanty Sandwich would pay off) by sending a copy of Norman Cook's new master work Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars...
It feature's the Doors-tastic "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)", as well as funk monster Bootsy Collins, and also Macy Gray, who features on the forthcoming single Demons...
Gonna work out how to give this away later today...
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Aug1
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Hello all,
In an attempt to get everything sorted before the Edinburgh Festival gets underway this weekend, here is all the information for the beginning of our Autumn season at the Lone Star Comedy Club. We kick things off in style in September with not one, but two shows!
We have our regular third Saturday club night on Saturday September 17th, featuring the following acts:
ROB DEERING (Rob is generally recognised as one of the best musical acts on the circuit, managing to be both comedically and musically talented as he also plays in a rock band. You may recognise him from the current Strongbow advertising campaign which is in heavy rotation on television, or maybe from one of his Channel 5 presenting stints on either '99 Things To Do Before You're 30' or 'Movie Mistakes Uncovered Uncut'. He is a great act, and has done a full-length solo Edinburgh show every year since 2002, with this year being no exception. "sterling stand-up from one of the circuit's rising stars"- THE SUNDAY TIMES)
DIE CLATTERSCHENKENFIETERMAUS (Spoof German electronica duo, Die Clatter... have caused an enormous amount of hype on the national comedy circuit and led many respected people to proclaim them as the next big thing in British comedy. We're delighted to have them down in a rare Southern appearance. They are presenting their debut full-length Edinburgh show at this year's festival. "the funniest show I've ever seen" - BBC ONLINE)
one more act TBC (as per usual, we'll be presenting an open spot, but it just hasn't been confirmed yet. they'll be good though)
resident compere DANNY JAMES (finally making his return to our stage after an extended absence, Danny should be able to tell us some stories from his debut Edinburgh venture this summer, hosting his own radio show every evening in August which is available online from www.redfinger.fm every night from the 4th August from 9.30-10.30pm)
all this at THE LANTERNS, rendezvous street, FOLKESTONE
SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
doors open: 8pm, show starts: 8.30pm
£8 / £6 concessions - phone 07810864228 for ticket information
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also in September, we host a special one-off comedy night for the Folkestone Literary Festival featuring the following acts:
ALEX HORNE (Alex is one of my personal favourite acts on the circuit, combining some simply inspired puns with some genuinely unique comic experiments on stage. In 2003, he was nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer award and in 2004 he won the Best Breakthrough Act at the Chortle Awards. He is currently developing his own television pilot with Channel4 and will be performing his third full-length Edinburgh show this summer)
JOSIE LONG (Josie was so good when she performed a ten-minute open spot in January that we've invited her back for a full-length set. Since then she has won the 2005 Chortle Award for Best New Act and been on tour with comedy luminary Stewart Lee. She has also won the 1999 BBC New Comedy Award and was placed second in So You Think You're Funny)
guest compere ALISTAIR BARRIE (Al is one of the circuit's true veteran professionals, being generally regarded as one of the best current affairs comics around. Although these days he's more likely to be found doing sets at clubs such as Jongleurs and The Comedy Store, he originally made his reputation as one of the best comperes on the circuit and it's our pleasure to welcome him back to this role at Lone Star for one night only!)
all this at THE LANTERNS, rendezvous street, FOLKESTONE
THURSDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
doors open: 8pm, show starts: 9pm
£7 / £6 concessions - see the Festival website at http://www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk or phone the festival box office on 01303258594 for booking information!
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