Good Morning

[plural]

it is a cheery 6am

the night still covers
the eyes of the world

and

good lord is it cold outside

I should be moving boxes
out to my van
to take them to the dump today
but
it is too damn cold
I think I will wait till the sun comes up
after all

I have three and a half hours
to move a couple dozen mostly empty boxes
as
long as I get them moved before the
window cleaners get here
I
will be all good

lacking any remarkable segue here but

I have mostly completed the torturous process
or standardizing my mp3 collection

so far I have standardized
every file name
correct all of the ID3 tag info
volume level each track

I still need to standardize genre info
I have already reset each track to "unknown"
so that I can go through them all
and do batch genre assignment
but

considering I have 7335 songs on this machine
or
382 uninterrupted hours of [mostly] good music
[Just shy of 16 days]

and

I probably have another 15gb on my server
which isnt up yet, although most of that
is about 90% sorted and standardized already
so it wont add too much to my workload

and

I am leeching fairly hardcore from good old paddy boy

*grin*

Comments

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Damn, you've actually organized all of that?

I'm impressed.

The disorganization is actually the reason the collection didn't get larger...

Have you journeyed into the 'various artists' or the 'other' in some of the genre folders? There are hundreds of one hit wonders from the 60/70.

[plural.livejournal.com]

Thats why I got the biggest dick baby

*grin*

yeah, its a huge process, which I have been half ass working on for a couple of years, and finally decided to hammer it out

I am not sure yet. I am just downloading the entire music directory

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

bear in mind the following algorithm used to build it during the napster heydays:

1) scour lj users whose tast I respected's 'current music' offering
2) search napster for it, download it, and any other songs by the same band.
3) use allmusicguide to find other 'similar' bands.
4) go to 2), and repeat until thread is exhasted.

In practice, this was done by making a list through the day, napstering before class, and setting some 200-300 songs to download. When I got back from class, I'd listen to some, try to put them into rough categories, but many I'd never listen to.

As I'd forget I'd researched some bands, or put them into poor category choices, there do exist some duplicates....