We were at the Apple Store getting Amber’s laptop fixed and I figured that I’d make an appointment for myself as well seeing as iTunes had take it upon itself to duplicate my library twice. Odd to say the least, and I figured that I’d see if there was anything that a “genius” could do. As it turns out,t there was nothing they could do outside of say “you can redo it by hand”. Whatever, I had plans to anyway.
The funny thing came when the “genius” was looking at my iTunes library. She said that I could just re-import all the mp3s on the drive if I had room on the drive. I didn’t, the collection was 15 GB at the time (it had been copied over three times remember). But she looked at the screen and it said “1 GB”.
“Oh, it’s only one gig, you should be okay.”
“It should be bigger than that.”
“Oh…. It’s one gig of AC/DC.”
amber was mortified for some reason, I was PROUD.
Do you download songs from Daytrotter? It’s a studio in Rock Island, Ill. that has bands stop by to play a few songs acoustic. They record them and then give them away for free. I’ve managed to find some really choice stuff on there.
The links don’t go directly to files, but pages the files can be found on. The studio asks not to link to the files directly, so I abide.
Did I miss some good ones? Let me know.
So Live Earth came and went. The New York and DC Lineups were boring, but the London lineup, jesus christ, was awesome. And on top of putting together at least one awesome concert from my point of view, they realized that these things are going to be all over the web once the concert was over. So what did they do? Put every friggin song and video online and let anyone who wanted to embed it.
Metallica had an interesting set, three songs from the Black Album. Sad but True, Nothing Else Matters and Sandman.
So I broke down and got an iPhone. (after my wife asked me why I hadn’t yet gotten one) I’m posting this now from the phone and it’s pretty neato. All the wiz bang is there, and I’m able to type with two thumbs slowly. I suppose that of’s not as hard to learn to type like this when you never used a smartphone keyboard.
The service has been fine so far, but I’ve had it for less than a few hours now so we’ll see.
