Feb. 23rd, 2005 10:35 am
A longer snippet
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servermonkeyI've been neglecting my LJ for a couple of days.
Work has actually required some effort over the last few days. We've been short one or two people dependent on the day. Some days, it's just been me. Talk about NOT fun.
Time has been eaten up converting files from WMA to MP3 format. Right now, my PC is in the middle of a batch of 273 songs that need to be converted. There are something like 1200 songs that I'm going to eventually have to convert. If anyone has any music suggestions, I'll gladly take them.
Adam offered up a lengthy list of stuff to seek out and I need to start doing that. The conversion of songs flies at 17x or 18x speed. It's the ENCODING that slows everything down to 5x or 6x speed. Very annoying, but whatever.
At home, I've managed to whittle down the MP3s on iTunes software to about 12.2 gigs of music. At work, well, I've lost count of the amount of music we have across our own office's PCs. It'll be at least 10 GB, and probably more like 20 or so.
Why am I so interested in organizing MP3 files? Well, I found a 30 GB Zen Xtra for $165.00 shipped. There was NO WAY I was getting into an iPod for that price. Who knows, perhaps later on, I'll end up getting an iPod nonetheless, but I'm not holding my breath. It would be really nice if there were something for the Zen like the Griffin iTrip transmitter that draws power from the player. There's an interesting Audiax one I've seen, but it only has a range of six feet. Another Belkin model has a range that's something like 10 to 30 feet.Adam also told me about some people he either knows or read about that would have H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds on their MP3 player and the transmit it as far as they could whenever they heard someone say, blasting some hardcore rap. It'd be cool to have the intro to The Outer Limits to do something similar with. The old intro, not so much the newer intro to the current The Outer Limits.
So, the Zen should arrive between the 25th and 28th. I'm hoping more for a delivery date of the 25th, but again, not holding my breath.
Mmmm. Terra just split a Mountain Dew with me. . .mmmm, caffeine!
Work has actually required some effort over the last few days. We've been short one or two people dependent on the day. Some days, it's just been me. Talk about NOT fun.
Time has been eaten up converting files from WMA to MP3 format. Right now, my PC is in the middle of a batch of 273 songs that need to be converted. There are something like 1200 songs that I'm going to eventually have to convert. If anyone has any music suggestions, I'll gladly take them.
Adam offered up a lengthy list of stuff to seek out and I need to start doing that. The conversion of songs flies at 17x or 18x speed. It's the ENCODING that slows everything down to 5x or 6x speed. Very annoying, but whatever.At home, I've managed to whittle down the MP3s on iTunes software to about 12.2 gigs of music. At work, well, I've lost count of the amount of music we have across our own office's PCs. It'll be at least 10 GB, and probably more like 20 or so.
Why am I so interested in organizing MP3 files? Well, I found a 30 GB Zen Xtra for $165.00 shipped. There was NO WAY I was getting into an iPod for that price. Who knows, perhaps later on, I'll end up getting an iPod nonetheless, but I'm not holding my breath. It would be really nice if there were something for the Zen like the Griffin iTrip transmitter that draws power from the player. There's an interesting Audiax one I've seen, but it only has a range of six feet. Another Belkin model has a range that's something like 10 to 30 feet.
Adam also told me about some people he either knows or read about that would have H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds on their MP3 player and the transmit it as far as they could whenever they heard someone say, blasting some hardcore rap. It'd be cool to have the intro to The Outer Limits to do something similar with. The old intro, not so much the newer intro to the current The Outer Limits.So, the Zen should arrive between the 25th and 28th. I'm hoping more for a delivery date of the 25th, but again, not holding my breath.
Mmmm. Terra just split a Mountain Dew with me. . .mmmm, caffeine!
