Good News, Bad News
Aug. 12th, 2003 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterIt's been a bit of a day of highs and lows so far. On the one hand, I learned that the 60 that was being disputed for a 100 ended up being an 85, so no extra $100 for me. (But on the bright side, it means my perfect record continues unabated.) On the other hand, I learned that the paycheck I receive in 2 1/2 weeks will be enriched by a $306 payout bonus—which I think is probably my highest yet.
I'm starting to become further accustomed to the features of my laptop, and am in the process of reluctantly tackling one of the most problematic issues surrounding my use of it—something that I had kind of hoped to be able to bypass entirely. I'm id3tagging my MP3 collection for iTunes compatibility. I have 11 days of music on my hard drive, and the enormity of the task induced me to try just about every possible solution I could that didn't involve doing that. I had hoped to be able to use xmms as I did on my Linux box, and even went so far as instructing fink to compile it. And it did compile, and it even ran...but unfortunately, when playing songs across the network, it skipped every so often. And none of the other mp3 players I tried were flexible enough or functional enough to meet my needs.
So, after trying some linux command-line tools that didn't work out, I've finally gotten ahold of some iTunes-plugin Applescripts that might just do the job for me (though will still necessitate a bunch of reorganization and renaming of mp3 files). Early tests look promising. It's kind of ironic, really: I'm doing a massive reorganization and sorting/tagging of the largest mass of files on my hard drive...using Macintosh-based tools.
In other news, I got a glowing email today from someone who had just watched the Castle of Cagliostro mp3 DVD commentary track I recorded for DVDtracks.com and was very impressed by it. I believe that's the first feedback of any kind I've received about it, and it gives me all sorts of warm fuzzies. I'd copy and paste the text of it, but these work computers are copy-paste-crippled...so maybe I'll edit this entry to append it when I get home.
I'm starting to become further accustomed to the features of my laptop, and am in the process of reluctantly tackling one of the most problematic issues surrounding my use of it—something that I had kind of hoped to be able to bypass entirely. I'm id3tagging my MP3 collection for iTunes compatibility. I have 11 days of music on my hard drive, and the enormity of the task induced me to try just about every possible solution I could that didn't involve doing that. I had hoped to be able to use xmms as I did on my Linux box, and even went so far as instructing fink to compile it. And it did compile, and it even ran...but unfortunately, when playing songs across the network, it skipped every so often. And none of the other mp3 players I tried were flexible enough or functional enough to meet my needs.
So, after trying some linux command-line tools that didn't work out, I've finally gotten ahold of some iTunes-plugin Applescripts that might just do the job for me (though will still necessitate a bunch of reorganization and renaming of mp3 files). Early tests look promising. It's kind of ironic, really: I'm doing a massive reorganization and sorting/tagging of the largest mass of files on my hard drive...using Macintosh-based tools.
In other news, I got a glowing email today from someone who had just watched the Castle of Cagliostro mp3 DVD commentary track I recorded for DVDtracks.com and was very impressed by it. I believe that's the first feedback of any kind I've received about it, and it gives me all sorts of warm fuzzies. I'd copy and paste the text of it, but these work computers are copy-paste-crippled...so maybe I'll edit this entry to append it when I get home.
