aviflax.com » Music http://aviflax.com Mon, 21 May 2012 14:55:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Twenty-Five Songs http://aviflax.com/post/twenty-five-songs/ http://aviflax.com/post/twenty-five-songs/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:22:46 +0000 Avi http://aviflax.com/?p=505 Elina’s uncle tagged me on Facebook; posting here for posterity.

I told my iPhone to shuffle all my songs; here’s the first twenty-five that came up:

  1. Blind Melon – Down on the Pharmacy – For my Friends
  2. Blind Melon – Seed to a Tree – Blind Melon
  3. Smoosh – It’s Cold – She Like Electric
  4. Fiona Apple – Parting Gift – Extraordinary Machine
  5. Girl Talk – Peak Out – Night Ripper
  6. James Iha – Be Strong Now – Let It Come Down
  7. Sublime – Get Out! (Remix) – Second Hand Smoke
  8. Couting Crows – Raining in Baltimore – August and Everything After
  9. Fiona Apple – Window – Extraordinary (leaked) Machine
  10. Blind Melon – Hello/Goodbye (live) – Houston, Texas, 2008-04-20
  11. Counting Crows – Omaha – August and Everything After
  12. Soul Asylum – Question – Let your dim light shine
  13. Smashing Pumpkins – Take Me Down – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  14. Jon Brion – Howard Makes It All Go Away – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  15. Blind Melon – Wishing Well (live) – Houston, Texas, 2008-04-20
  16. The Dresden Dolls – 672 – The Dresden Dolls
  17. Guster – Happier – Lost and Gone Forever
  18. Kyler Gabler – The Last of the Goo Balls and the Telescope Operator – World of Goo Soundtrack
  19. Smashing Pumpkins – Jellybelly – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  20. Hole – Rock Star – Live Through This
  21. Guster – Center of Attention – Lost and Gone Forever
  22. The White Stripes – Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn – Icky Thump
  23. Girl Talk – Let Me See You – Feed the Animals
  24. Frente – Bizarre Love Triangle – Marvin the Album
  25. Seven Mary Three – Lame – American Standard
]]> http://aviflax.com/post/twenty-five-songs/feed/ 0 My Preferred Approach to Music Downloads http://aviflax.com/post/my-preferred-approach-to-music-downloads/ http://aviflax.com/post/my-preferred-approach-to-music-downloads/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:08:26 +0000 Avi http://aviflax.com/?p=464
  • I interact directly with the act via their own website.
  • I download (middling-quality) MP3 tracks for free and listen to the music for a few days or weeks.
  • If I like the music enough to want to have it in my library, I go to the act’s website to buy it. If not, I delete the MP3 tracks.
  • I specify the price I’m willing to pay.
  • I download a zip file containing 320 KBps FLAC tracks and JPEG art files.
  • I use Max to convert the FLAC tracks to Apple Lossless tracks.
  • I import the tracks into my iTunes library, add the art, and enter the metadata for each track.

    • Seeing as Max is Open Source, I see an opportunity here for some software to automate all this. Imagine dragging that downloaded zip file onto “MaxiTunes”, having it pop up a simple interface for entering metadata, and then it takes care of converting the tracks, adding the metadata, importing them into iTunes, and moving the original files to the trash. I’d be willing to contribute funds to a developer willing to give this a try.

    Update: It turns out that I underestimated Max. Apparently if a FLAC file contains metadata, it’ll be preserved during the conversion. And if not, Max has built-in metadata editing. It can also automatically add converted tracks to iTunes, and even to a specific playlist. Impressive! I like Max a lot – it’s fast, effective, reliable, free, and Free. My only real quibble would be that the UI is a little confusing. Just a little though.

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