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To Soothe the Savage Breast IV
Dec. 17th, 2012 02:31 amI didn't archive any LPs to MP3 Saturday, but I did plenty of work on my music collection in iTunes; I decided I was tired of looking at placeholders and wanted to fix the missing album covers. In doing so, I discovered several covers that were present, but wrong, so I fixed those, too.
In order to get a couple of covers I had to go get the actual CDs and scan the covers in, because the albums are sufficiently obscure that I couldn't find them anywhere on the web -- e.g., the Christmas album the Chancel Choir at my sister's old church released, which they apparently never put on their website.
So I pulled out some of my CDs, and promptly discovered a couple that weren't in iTunes, even though in theory I'd ripped everything years ago. Turns out I had ripped a couple of albums in WMA format, which iTunes can't play.
For stupid reasons that don't bear explaining I wound up having to rip them anew on Iris, the computer in the upstairs study -- couldn't get either Chloe or Beth to do it right. Got it done, though. (That was "There's Trouble Coming," by GHz (pronounced "Gigahertz"), and "Strong Medicine," by Patty Reese -- both local artists.)
And there were a couple of albums I never did rip before. One's the original-cast recording of the 2002 Hexagon show -- Hexagon's a political humor group that does an annual musical revue in Washington -- "It's A Grand Old Gag." So that's now in my collection.
The other... well, it's in Japanese. I could tell from the art it had some connection with the series "Ranma 1/2," but the music wasn't anything I recognized...
I tracked it down on the web. It's DoCo's third album. DoCo is an all-girl pop group made up of five of the voice actors from "Ranma," who perform in character as the Tendo sisters, Ranma-chan, and Shampoo. Their first two albums were apparently fairly ordinary J-pop; their third is karaoke versions of all their hits.
Where the hell did I get that?
Anyway, I ripped that, too, and discovered that iTunes can handle Japanese text pretty well, but that moving files back and forth among my various systems did something weird and I was getting multiple copies of every song. Took awhile to make that stop -- for awhile they were breeding faster than I could kill them.
And there were some files on iTunes where I had to correct faulty data.
Basically, I spent the entire afternoon messing with this stuff, rather than doing anything productive, but at least my collection is more complete and up to date than it was.
In order to get a couple of covers I had to go get the actual CDs and scan the covers in, because the albums are sufficiently obscure that I couldn't find them anywhere on the web -- e.g., the Christmas album the Chancel Choir at my sister's old church released, which they apparently never put on their website.
So I pulled out some of my CDs, and promptly discovered a couple that weren't in iTunes, even though in theory I'd ripped everything years ago. Turns out I had ripped a couple of albums in WMA format, which iTunes can't play.
For stupid reasons that don't bear explaining I wound up having to rip them anew on Iris, the computer in the upstairs study -- couldn't get either Chloe or Beth to do it right. Got it done, though. (That was "There's Trouble Coming," by GHz (pronounced "Gigahertz"), and "Strong Medicine," by Patty Reese -- both local artists.)
And there were a couple of albums I never did rip before. One's the original-cast recording of the 2002 Hexagon show -- Hexagon's a political humor group that does an annual musical revue in Washington -- "It's A Grand Old Gag." So that's now in my collection.
The other... well, it's in Japanese. I could tell from the art it had some connection with the series "Ranma 1/2," but the music wasn't anything I recognized...
I tracked it down on the web. It's DoCo's third album. DoCo is an all-girl pop group made up of five of the voice actors from "Ranma," who perform in character as the Tendo sisters, Ranma-chan, and Shampoo. Their first two albums were apparently fairly ordinary J-pop; their third is karaoke versions of all their hits.
Where the hell did I get that?
Anyway, I ripped that, too, and discovered that iTunes can handle Japanese text pretty well, but that moving files back and forth among my various systems did something weird and I was getting multiple copies of every song. Took awhile to make that stop -- for awhile they were breeding faster than I could kill them.
And there were some files on iTunes where I had to correct faulty data.
Basically, I spent the entire afternoon messing with this stuff, rather than doing anything productive, but at least my collection is more complete and up to date than it was.