Thanks! That little script seems to help with all the MP3s that are actually tagged correctly. Now, if only I could find a script to listen to all my MP3s and find the ones that are the same song but tagged incorrectly or incompletely, I'd be set.
The solution is for Apple's software developers to write iTunes in such a way as to load the next track while the current track is still playing, getting it ready to play as soon as the current track is over. I don't know why this isn't already the case, but then, I don't know why they limited the library size either.
Insufficient forsight? Rush to get a product out the door on deadline? Pressure to add features instead of improving the functionality of the basics? Or is this actually a really hard thing to do?
(Advice to others with large collections: buy an external Firewire disk and back your library up!!)
No shit!! I don't have quite as many files as you, but I have plenty, and shortly after I got my new computer, Louise, my old FW 80 GB drive died (I will never buy another Maxtor drive...if only I'd known it was Maxtor when i got it). Luckily I had already transferred most of my files to the new HD inside the computer, but I hadn't transferred my MP3s because I didn't plan to--Guenevere, the external drive, was to be my MP3 hard drive.
Norton couldn't get my files back, so I started shopping around for disk utilities (I did most of my "shopping" on LimeWire... : ). Drive 10 acted like it was going to get my files back, but didn't. Finall Disk Rescue acted like it could get my files back, and apparently was capable of doing so, but refused to recover more than one file because it wasn't registered. I shelled out $90 for the program, and got most of my MP3s back...but then Disk Rescue ran out of memory, and some of my files were lost forever.
Now the question is, where do I back up to? I recently got a 120 GB Western Digital drive, but that's for my burgeoning collection of ripped DVDs that threatened to overfill Guenevere and Esmerelda (Louise's built-in 120 GB drive). My illegal practices have stretched my budget too thin! If I'm going to keep buying CDs, I'm going to risk losing my valuable MP3 and AVI collection.
How would your computer read the link in the headline?
"In the news headlines the less-than a href equals http colon slash slash homepage dot mac dot com slash davesag slash iblog slash davesag percent twenty rants slash War percent twenty and percent twenty Peace slash six six zero two seven niner three three slash index dot html greater-than USA has declared war on Germany less-than slash a greater-than, citing Germany's support for international terrorism, that Germany started the last two world wars, and that the USA intends to start the next one."
Oops, made an editorial comment somewhere in there...
I consider my MP3 collection to be fairly large as collections go, and I'm more likely to run out of disk space on the three drives in my computer (total 320 GB) than to hit 32767 songs.
However, I do consider it to be a problem I will eventually run into. Hopefully Apple will address it in iTunes 4.0.
In my own line of work, I've learned that good programming begins with good naming conventions.
Everything has a name -- even if it's nothing more than "Hey! You!"
Sure, I call lots of my variables "Hey! You!" It gets confusing with so many named that, and some languages have trouble with the exclamation points and the space, but it's worth it just to watch people squirm as they try to read my code out loud.
A different name doesn't change who my father or his father or his father's father was, or where they lived, or what traditions they practiced.
I have three points to make against this. First of all, it also doesn't change who your mother was, or your mother's mother, or your mother's father, or your father's mother. That is equally important, and not represented in most people's names in the first place.
Second, while changing your name doesn't change your heritage, it changes people's perception of your heritage. In a world where people's last names are always their father's last names, being an exception would be difficult.
Third, while changing your name doesn't change your heritage, it can change your identity in a sense, making it hard for old friends or associates to find you, forcing you to start over in a number of ways. My mother didn't change her last name when she married my father for exactly these reasons, because she considered her last name too much a part of who she was to change just because she was getting married.
I don't know how most people choose their kids names, but I'm glad my parents deliberately went for an out-of-fashion name for me. I have a friend named Robert John Miller who not only knows many other people named Bob, but actually had another Robert John Miller in a class of his in high school. I, on the other hand, have never met another Abe, and another Abe Thurtell, I'm happy to say, doesn't exist. Of course, part of that was luck--for one thing, they missed with my brother, as Adam became a popular name exactly around the time he was growing up; and for another, if my dad's last name had been Smith, there would be someone else in the world with the same name as me, no matter what. But I like having a unique name, anyhow.
And just as in A Beautiful Mind Nash's friends suspected him of coming up with a plan that would allow him to get the blonde, people will suspect Cornell of coming up with this plan to get more bandwidth. Also just as in the movie (/book, which I haven't read yet) that's probably not the case...or let's hope it's not.
The article is not saying that using the Internet slows it down (that much is obvious). It's saying that with different routing techniques and the same level of use, it could go faster. So, using it slows it down, but so does building a bad infrastructure for it.
No one claimed that Apple invented the testimonial. Microsoft isn't just doing testimonial-based advertising, though, they're doing a blatant copy of a particular campaign by Apple which is not likely to be nearly as successful for Microsoft as it has been for Apple. That's why they're being made fun of.
Whiney mac owning elitist idiots.
"Whiney": Your post has a bit of a whiney ring to it. You may want to cleanse your own posts of whine before you accuse other people of whining. Or would you just like some cheese?
"Elitist" makes it sound as if we want to keep the platform to ourselves and not let the average user in. This is the opposite of what the Switch campaign is all about.
"Idiots": When you generalize like that, you are calling me an idiot. I think an IQ of 146, an ACT score of 36 and an SAT score of 1490 give me the right to, shall we say, politely disagree.
Sorry, I don't like to wield numbers like that like weapons, but certain types of comments make me fly off the handle.
Perhaps I should have been more specific. Mac OS X Server was a totally different product, yes, but I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.3 Server, which is very much the same as the normal, "client" version of the operating system. The differences lie mainly in a few extra daemons Server runs. In the past, the third-decimal updates have come out at the same time for both, so I was surprised not to see the update in Software Update.
Sorry about the duplicate. Slashdot wouldn't load for me for about 10 minutes. When I went to see if I could load it again, I checked to see if my previous attempt at commenting had succeeded, and didn't see the comment...but of course once I repost it, there it is! Oh well.
This update doesn't appear in my Software Update preference pane. Nor did yesterday's Safari update. Is anyone else having this problem? Is it a problem with my Software Update, or is it the fact that I'm on OS X Server? Is the update for 10.2.4 Server not out yet? That still wouldn't explain the problem with the Safari update.
Perhaps I should trash my Software Update prefs and try again.
Maybe something is wrong with my Software Update, but it's not showing that there's an update available for OS X. It didn't show yesterday's Safari update, either--I had to download that from Apple's Web site manually.
Or maybe it's the fact that I'm running OS X Server--does anyone know if the update to Server has come out yet?
Reading a lot of these posts, I find many, many people saying how difficult FTP is to get set up and working. It's really not that hard. My server (see.sig) took a total of a few hours to set up. The hard part was finding people to help me troubleshoot, since I couldn't very well do it from inside my network.
I'm using Pure-FTPd, and I recommend it if you're using a platform it'll run on. To get through a firewall, just set it to know your external IP address (with -P), set it to use a particular range of ports for passive connections (with -p) and set your router to route those ports to the server. Easy.
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I am using the Dvorak-with-qwerty-command-keys layout. My complaint is twofold:
a) I had to use this instead of pure Dvorak because certain programs wouldn't recognize command keys at all otherwise, and
b) even with this layout, command keys are extremely inconsistent. As noted in my original post, Word still uses Dvorak command keys even though I have it set to qwerty command keys; HotApp behaves extremely strangely; and keyboard shortcuts that use the option key or other modifier keys in addition to the command key are inconsistent and in some cases broken.
...replace Office. AppleWorks is a very different application from the various Offices, being far more integrated as one application. Hopefully Apple will either update AppleWorks to where it can compete in features with Office, while keeping the existing paradigm, or if they create several new applications as you suggested, those new apps will replace not AppleWorks, but Office. It would be nice, for those of us who like the power of Office, to have an Apple product available so we could avoid endorsing Macrosquash any more than possible, but for people who prefer the integration of AppleWorks, that product's death would be very unfortunate.
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Well, I haven't been able to use command-option-w consistently since I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout, so I hadn't even noticed that missing feature in Safari. Mac OS X's lack of support for Dvorak is pathetic when it comes to dealing with keyboard shortcuts. Some applications insist on treating all keystrokes as if I had a QWERTY keyboard, some treat the keys differently depending on the circumstances. HotApp, for instance, is a neat little preference pane for making lots of keyboard shortcuts, but it reads Dvorak keys when assigning the shortcuts and QWERTY keys when using them, which is extremely confusing (think about it for a minute or two till your head hurts).
All this means that, for instance, in the Finder, closing a window is command-, (comma is where w would be in qwerty, I have it set to use qwerty command keys to make certain apps happier), but closing all windows is command-option-w (w being, ironically, where , is in qwerty!).
If only Apple would support different keyboard layouts at a lower level in the OS, changing the characters before other applications could read them, I wouldn't have all this trouble...
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Thanks! That little script seems to help with all the MP3s that are actually tagged correctly. Now, if only I could find a script to listen to all my MP3s and find the ones that are the same song but tagged incorrectly or incompletely, I'd be set.
The solution is for Apple's software developers to write iTunes in such a way as to load the next track while the current track is still playing, getting it ready to play as soon as the current track is over. I don't know why this isn't already the case, but then, I don't know why they limited the library size either.
Insufficient forsight? Rush to get a product out the door on deadline? Pressure to add features instead of improving the functionality of the basics? Or is this actually a really hard thing to do?
No shit!! I don't have quite as many files as you, but I have plenty, and shortly after I got my new computer, Louise, my old FW 80 GB drive died (I will never buy another Maxtor drive...if only I'd known it was Maxtor when i got it). Luckily I had already transferred most of my files to the new HD inside the computer, but I hadn't transferred my MP3s because I didn't plan to--Guenevere, the external drive, was to be my MP3 hard drive.
Norton couldn't get my files back, so I started shopping around for disk utilities (I did most of my "shopping" on LimeWire... : ). Drive 10 acted like it was going to get my files back, but didn't. Finall Disk Rescue acted like it could get my files back, and apparently was capable of doing so, but refused to recover more than one file because it wasn't registered. I shelled out $90 for the program, and got most of my MP3s back...but then Disk Rescue ran out of memory, and some of my files were lost forever.
Now the question is, where do I back up to? I recently got a 120 GB Western Digital drive, but that's for my burgeoning collection of ripped DVDs that threatened to overfill Guenevere and Esmerelda (Louise's built-in 120 GB drive). My illegal practices have stretched my budget too thin! If I'm going to keep buying CDs, I'm going to risk losing my valuable MP3 and AVI collection.
How would your computer read the link in the headline?
"In the news headlines the less-than a href equals http colon slash slash homepage dot mac dot com slash davesag slash iblog slash davesag percent twenty rants slash War percent twenty and percent twenty Peace slash six six zero two seven niner three three slash index dot html greater-than USA has declared war on Germany less-than slash a greater-than, citing Germany's support for international terrorism, that Germany started the last two world wars, and that the USA intends to start the next one."
Oops, made an editorial comment somewhere in there...
Unless, of course, they paid for all that music.
Not that I paid for all of mine. Oh no, they're coming to get me!
Whoa, i'm almost 1/3 of the way there.
Of course, I have a ton of duplicates and no time to go through and weed them out, so that number is wildly inflated.
I consider my MP3 collection to be fairly large as collections go, and I'm more likely to run out of disk space on the three drives in my computer (total 320 GB) than to hit 32767 songs.
However, I do consider it to be a problem I will eventually run into. Hopefully Apple will address it in iTunes 4.0.
Come to think of it, you're right...I've never met another Mustang Matt.
Sure, I call lots of my variables "Hey! You!" It gets confusing with so many named that, and some languages have trouble with the exclamation points and the space, but it's worth it just to watch people squirm as they try to read my code out loud.
Nice .sig. Reminds me of one of my favorite t-shirts:
out of my mind
back in 5 minutes
I have three points to make against this. First of all, it also doesn't change who your mother was, or your mother's mother, or your mother's father, or your father's mother. That is equally important, and not represented in most people's names in the first place.
Second, while changing your name doesn't change your heritage, it changes people's perception of your heritage. In a world where people's last names are always their father's last names, being an exception would be difficult.
Third, while changing your name doesn't change your heritage, it can change your identity in a sense, making it hard for old friends or associates to find you, forcing you to start over in a number of ways. My mother didn't change her last name when she married my father for exactly these reasons, because she considered her last name too much a part of who she was to change just because she was getting married.
I don't know how most people choose their kids names, but I'm glad my parents deliberately went for an out-of-fashion name for me. I have a friend named Robert John Miller who not only knows many other people named Bob, but actually had another Robert John Miller in a class of his in high school. I, on the other hand, have never met another Abe, and another Abe Thurtell, I'm happy to say, doesn't exist. Of course, part of that was luck--for one thing, they missed with my brother, as Adam became a popular name exactly around the time he was growing up; and for another, if my dad's last name had been Smith, there would be someone else in the world with the same name as me, no matter what. But I like having a unique name, anyhow.
And just as in A Beautiful Mind Nash's friends suspected him of coming up with a plan that would allow him to get the blonde, people will suspect Cornell of coming up with this plan to get more bandwidth. Also just as in the movie (/book, which I haven't read yet) that's probably not the case...or let's hope it's not.
How does this get modded insightful?
The article is not saying that using the Internet slows it down (that much is obvious). It's saying that with different routing techniques and the same level of use, it could go faster. So, using it slows it down, but so does building a bad infrastructure for it.
Sorry, I don't like to wield numbers like that like weapons, but certain types of comments make me fly off the handle.
Perhaps I should have been more specific. Mac OS X Server was a totally different product, yes, but I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.3 Server, which is very much the same as the normal, "client" version of the operating system. The differences lie mainly in a few extra daemons Server runs. In the past, the third-decimal updates have come out at the same time for both, so I was surprised not to see the update in Software Update.
Sorry about the duplicate. Slashdot wouldn't load for me for about 10 minutes. When I went to see if I could load it again, I checked to see if my previous attempt at commenting had succeeded, and didn't see the comment...but of course once I repost it, there it is! Oh well.
This update doesn't appear in my Software Update preference pane. Nor did yesterday's Safari update. Is anyone else having this problem? Is it a problem with my Software Update, or is it the fact that I'm on OS X Server? Is the update for 10.2.4 Server not out yet? That still wouldn't explain the problem with the Safari update.
Perhaps I should trash my Software Update prefs and try again.
Maybe something is wrong with my Software Update, but it's not showing that there's an update available for OS X. It didn't show yesterday's Safari update, either--I had to download that from Apple's Web site manually.
Or maybe it's the fact that I'm running OS X Server--does anyone know if the update to Server has come out yet?
Reading a lot of these posts, I find many, many people saying how difficult FTP is to get set up and working. It's really not that hard. My server (see .sig) took a total of a few hours to set up. The hard part was finding people to help me troubleshoot, since I couldn't very well do it from inside my network.
I'm using Pure-FTPd, and I recommend it if you're using a platform it'll run on. To get through a firewall, just set it to know your external IP address (with -P), set it to use a particular range of ports for passive connections (with -p) and set your router to route those ports to the server. Easy.
I am using the Dvorak-with-qwerty-command-keys layout. My complaint is twofold:
a) I had to use this instead of pure Dvorak because certain programs wouldn't recognize command keys at all otherwise, and
b) even with this layout, command keys are extremely inconsistent. As noted in my original post, Word still uses Dvorak command keys even though I have it set to qwerty command keys; HotApp behaves extremely strangely; and keyboard shortcuts that use the option key or other modifier keys in addition to the command key are inconsistent and in some cases broken.
...replace Office. AppleWorks is a very different application from the various Offices, being far more integrated as one application. Hopefully Apple will either update AppleWorks to where it can compete in features with Office, while keeping the existing paradigm, or if they create several new applications as you suggested, those new apps will replace not AppleWorks, but Office. It would be nice, for those of us who like the power of Office, to have an Apple product available so we could avoid endorsing Macrosquash any more than possible, but for people who prefer the integration of AppleWorks, that product's death would be very unfortunate.
Well, I haven't been able to use command-option-w consistently since I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout, so I hadn't even noticed that missing feature in Safari. Mac OS X's lack of support for Dvorak is pathetic when it comes to dealing with keyboard shortcuts. Some applications insist on treating all keystrokes as if I had a QWERTY keyboard, some treat the keys differently depending on the circumstances. HotApp, for instance, is a neat little preference pane for making lots of keyboard shortcuts, but it reads Dvorak keys when assigning the shortcuts and QWERTY keys when using them, which is extremely confusing (think about it for a minute or two till your head hurts).
All this means that, for instance, in the Finder, closing a window is command-, (comma is where w would be in qwerty, I have it set to use qwerty command keys to make certain apps happier), but closing all windows is command-option-w (w being, ironically, where , is in qwerty!).
If only Apple would support different keyboard layouts at a lower level in the OS, changing the characters before other applications could read them, I wouldn't have all this trouble...
You may be 100% positive that it lists it on your computer, but I had to go to VersionTracker and update mine.