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“Unknown Artist” No More
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 / Software, iTunes / 1 Comment
One of the true powers of iTunes and digital music is that it’s searchable. As personal music libraries grow to thousands of songs, they would be cumbersome to use if people could not search by a multitude of song data. Many of us have been listening to MP3s since the 90s, long before song names and other information were automatically filled in for us. Back then we were probably a little sloppy with our labeling. Like many of you, I have old MP3 files with missing album info or shorthand spellings. Worst of all, some MP3s I imported from homemade mix CDs and now I’m clueless as to what songs they are. Next to my nicely indexed new song files those old MP3s are mostly ignored. Often I have wished for some all-knowing music zombie to go through iTunes and correct my MP3 data tags. At last someone wrote that zombie application and it is called iEatBrainz.
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Do You Digg The New Media?
Friday, July 7, 2006 / New Media, Technology / 0 Comments
I became addicted to the news at a very young age. At 11 years old I remember salvaging every old black & white TV I could get my hands on. Then I set them up all in a row so that I could watch every channel at once. Later I dreamed of becoming a journalist myself, in either TV or print. One thing that is consistent between the gathering of both TV and print news is that news items are filtered through a few individuals who decide what will “make the news” that day. The beginning of the internet news age did not vary much from that old model, because just one or two people had editorial control over what news made it onto the news website.
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