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Making a new start in 2009

January 9, 2009 in Barry's Rant, The Neck by barry

Today marks the start of the new episode. For several years now, I have a very is painful neck, so much so that it has prevented me from writing in detail of the sort I’d like to, on a whole range of topics.

Given that I’m a well-known mumbler and prevaricator.  I imagine that trying to read these posts, initially at least could be very difficult.

It should be fun to find out.  It Today is also remarkable for the fact that I have finally divorced myself from an addiction or at the least a dependence upon Apple’s, iTunes.  

I got sick of a range of issues that I was suffering from with iTunes and so I have replaced it with Mozilla is Songbird. http://getsongbird.com/

The issues that I had was when I asked by iTunes to copy my files from the standard format to an MP3 format.  Rather than replace the file the existing songs with their MP3 versions, iTunes simply made another copy of the same files.

Having done this a few times, I add it up with multiple copies of nearly every song in my music collection.  I went through all of the subfolders and directories of music and removed all duplicates leaving only the MP3 files.  

iTunes, of course, didn’t update its playlist, so I would be fortunate if one in three files listed in the playlist were actually able to play. Rather than work through the whole, iTunes environment to try and figure out what the hell was going was going on how to fix it I decided to replace iTunes altogether

I now have a new music player, which looks fantastic sounds great, and seemed to have all my music on.

What more could you ask willo, having purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking, of decided that all my posts from now will be done using speech recognition, stay well

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January 16, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Scott

I like the idea of Dragon, i’m sure it will work out what you are saying pretty soon. I like the look of songbird.

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