i am making my confused face.

i had a thought a minute ago, but it went away.

does that ever happen to you? (of course it does. it happens to everybody. never mind.)

i'm a little brain-fried at the moment. first of all, my wireless connection is the least stable thing EVAR, and it's been driving me bats for four days now. secondly, i am on vacation but about to be faced with the unavoidable reality of schoolwork that has to be done before i go back. and thirdly, i've been hip-deep in iTunes for days on end. my brother and sister-in-law gave me five CDs of mp3's -- so this is, like, a LOT of music files -- last summer. and i loaded these into iTunes and thence to the ol' iPod, but the thing is that they're mostly not named in the way iTunes likes things to be named. instead of having the details arranged by title and artist, that is to say, the filenames are "Artist-Title" and all this goes into the "title" slot in iTunes and makes sorting Very Difficult. additionally, many of them have snappy titles like "track 7", which is totally unhelpful. (interestingly, the details in Get Info are correct in such cases -- but the filename is still "track 7", so i can't know that.) anyway, also because of this naming issue, iTunes can't actually find the files because they're not in the iTunes music folder in subfolders by artist -- i don't know how it found them before, and i don't think i've moved them, but whatever -- so here's me going through iTunes one song at a time, choosing "get info", listening to it tell me it can't find the original file, showing it where the original file is, changing the info (title and artist only -- i mostly don't know the album, and i don't care as much), and saving it as genre "pop/rock". i figure i start broad with genres, and classify later -- i've got holiday (read: christmas), a capella (...), comedy (for capitol steps and forbidden broadway/hollywood), showtunes (for other cast albums), spoken word (for books on tape), soundtrack (film), classical (other orchestral/choral), and pop/rock (everything else). there's going to have to be some rethinking of that, obviously, but i'll deal with that once i've showed iTunes where to find all these damned songs.

five. discs'. worth. of. m. p. 3's.

so i'm about 1/3 of the way through the last disc. and then i'll go back and pick up the stragglers -- there were some things i couldn't find. might have to dig out the original discs again for them. or something.

oy.

also, have made the switch to semagic. i had been using that other client (lj_win32 or something?), but it seems this is better. w00t.

oh! i remember!

this may not have been it, but it's a happy thought:

my dad has a machine, a thing he got a few years ago that my brother figured out how to connect, which allows you (read: me) to transfer from a cassette tape to a CD. i'm sure this is no big deal, but it's a relatively big deal to me, and the practical upshot is that among the most recent additions to my iTunes were the recordings of radio broadcasts of concerts i sang in high school. i can listen to my own chorus singing Durufle's requiem, instead of the (admittedly technically excellent, but not my own) atlanta symphony.

THANK GOD

the wireless connection, she is fixed.

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