Category: music
sound advice
Here are a couple great links to bookmark if you’ve ever thought of hooking up a turntable or cassette deck to a computer. First off, a good concise overview of the process at Macworld: digitize your cassettes and LPs. That article hits all the major points, with one glaring exception: cleaning up the pops, crackles, [...]
fixing mixed up album covers on iPod
Until I need a new iPod, I will stick with my 5th-generation video iPod and it’s 60GB space limitations. This means, for instance, that come Christmas time I have to de-sync a lot of albums from the iPod to put Christmas music on the iPod. And on the long drive home to my parents for [...]
now playing
I’ve added a new widget to the site, over there in the left column … my current playlist via last.fm. Right now it only works at the office, thanks to the auto-updating feature built into the fantastic iTunes add-on Cover Sutra. Alas, it’s all Mac-only, so full playlist coverage likely won’t be accomplished until I [...]
we are the world
Not too long ago I digitized some of the original USA for Africa album from vinyl, and still had the record sitting here in my office. One drawback to Live Earth was the lack of an opportunity to take a group shot of all/most of the participants. The new banner image is from the USA [...]
pink and green
I was still living in the fraternity house in 1985, so when Live Aid was broadcast, it was an excuse to throw a party and be shitfaced before the sun went down. And from what I recall, it wasn’t all that exciting to watch on TV. The big gossip/rumor at the time was that the [...]
my dozen favorite albums from 2006
No Grammy predictions on my part this year (I haven’t been doing well in the predictions department recently). But I’ve been working on this post on and off for the past couple weeks hoping to get it posted before the Grammys. So with the awards ceremony only a couple hours away, here are my favorite [...]