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Fun With iTunes, Revisited

January 3, 2011 /

A 5ive year follow up to my December 2005 post… let’s see what’s changed:

How Many Songs:

10,221

Sort By Song Title

First Song: À la Mode – Art Blakey, The Impulse! Collection: the Best of Impulse!, Vol. 1

Last Song:  99.9 F – Suzanne Vega, 99.9° F

Last Alphabetical Song: Zorro: Zorro – The Mellomen, The Music Of Disney: A Legacy In Song

Sort By Time

Shortest Song: Back — Janet Jackson

Longest Song: The Sinking of the Titanic — Gavin Bryars

Top 5ive Most Played

  1. Seasons Reprise – Elton John, Rare Masters
  2. Bring A Torch Jeanette, Isabella/When Blossoms Flowered ‘Mid The Snows – Liz Story, The Gift
  3. Here Comes The Sun – Richie Havens, Alarm Clock
  4. Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Anne & Pete Sibley, Winter On the Great Divide: a Christmas Album
  5. Lullay, Lully – Barbara Higbie, A Winter’s Solstice, Vol. 3

First Song That Comes Up On Shuffle

Just a Memory – Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]

“sex” songs – 18

“death” songs – 3

“love” songs – 617

“you” songs – 1123

Over 3,600 songs have been added in 5ive years: 3 more sexy songs, a bunch of new love and you songs, but I guess my musical sense of morbidity has been stable.  Also looks like iTunes is now smart enough to know that ‘Round should alphabetize under R.

The Promise

September 29, 2010 /

I was playing with iTunes yesterday, particularly with the new Ping feature which incorporates Twitter-like social networking directly into the application.  I noticed when playing a particular song, the iTunes Ping sidebar indicated that a certain someone named Bruce Springsteen also likes that particular artist.  “Cool,” I thought, “let me click on this guy and see what else he’s about” and as it turns out it really is The Boss himself (or at least someone in his employ) posting “pings” on iTunes.  His ping from September 10th indicates that there is a new release coming out on November 16th:  The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story which includes a 90 minute documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town and an additional 21 previously unreleased songs from the Darkness sessions.

Extra cool!  The complete package is pricey – $125 – but it is as good as purchased already.  It was on September 19, 1978 (yes, twenty years later the date would serve as Edith and my wedding day) that I recorded Bruce’s live radio concert from the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ, while on the Darkness tour.  The show stands out as a masterpiece (or, as it was later titled on the bootleg release, a Piece de Resistance.)  I remember bouncing off my bedroom walls listening to the show, which included unreleased songs (Independence Day, Fire, Because the Night, and an alternate version of Point Blank) as well as the ultimate absolutely flat out hardest rocking guitar screaming best live recording you will ever hear of Prove It All Night, plus gems such as Not Fade Away seguing into She’s The One, and shades of Drive All Night hidden inside of Backstreets.  With the release of The Promise also comes a live recording from Houston from the Darkness tour, and the set list looks like a real challenger to the Passaic show:

  1. Badlands
  2. Streets Of Fire
  3. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
  4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
  5. Spirit In The Night
  6. Independence Day
  7. The Promised Land
  8. Prove It All Night
  9. Racing In The Street
  10. Thunder Road
  11. Jungleland
  12. The Ties That Bind
  13. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  14. The Fever
  15. Fire
  16. Candy’s Room
  17. Because The Night
  18. Point Blank
  19. She’s The One
  20. Backstreets
  21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
  22. Born To Run
  23. Detroit Medley
  24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
  25. You Can’t Sit Down
  26. Quarter To Three

Anyway, if you can’t tell, I’m excited about this release!

The Hazards of Love

March 23, 2009 /

It has been quite the long time since I’ve been this entusiastic about some new music, but the new release by The Decemberists, The Hazards Of Love, has been playing non-stop on the iPod for the past two days.  I first heard the haunting track The Rake’s Song on this past Friday morning’s drive to work on WXPN, (click here for the day’s playlist – esp. the 8:00AM – 9:00AM slot… Look! there’s Feist in the 9:00AM – 10:00AM hour!) and it stuck in my head all day.

Yesterday, I downloaded the album from iTunes (I hate iTunes, btw…)

Which Audio Application to Choose?

January 22, 2009 /

Over the years, I’ve used many different desktop aplications to listen to audio files, as well as manage my vast library of digital audio files. RealPlayer. Real Rhapsody. Musicmatch. Windows Media Player. iTunes. I’ve used them all at one time or another. Until very recently, I’d been mostly using RealPlayer because of its integration with Yahoo Music Jukebox and Radio; however, with Yahoo Music Jukebox switching over to Rhapsody this past summer, I’ve been thnking about exactly what is the best application for my needs…

I’m running Windows Home Server on a separate standalone file server for all of my audio, video, picture files, which is accessible by my desktop and laptop PCs as well as E.’s notebook. It’s been working out OK as far as having one consolidated place for all of these media files, but each PC has been using its own application to access and utilize the files. The problem is that each application has it’s own way of creating and managing metadata about the audio files, which are not necessarily consistent. For example, iTunes will automatically update whatever it believes to be the album art for a file, even if it does not agree with what Windows Media Player or RealPlayer thinks the album art is. iTunes will also rearrange file locations and directory structures in its own unique way.

To help eliminate these inconsistencies, I want to standardize on one application for the audio files particularly, and although I’m not a big iTunes or iPod fan I’m probably leaning toward iTunes, for it’s ability to easily export my entire library into an XML file, but I’m curious to know if anyone else has faced a similar situation and how it was decided.

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