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Mar. 25th, 2009
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Mar. 25th, 2009 05:33 pmToday was a day to be frustrated at my work computer.
First of all, I set the Lala program loose on my computer last night. I didn't let it know where my main (175 gig) music file was, but I let it sort through my "My Music" file on the main hard drive. It matched up music that I owned to music already on Lala, and then it started uploading everything that it couldn't match up. I don't know if this is such a good idea or not, but I decided to see how things went. It was even uploading my Terry Pratchett novels.
So when I got to work I tried to listen to one of them from their web site, but that attempt failed. Later in the day I realized that, for whatever reason, no web streaming of any sort was working. A reboot fixed that.
I also went to the NPR web site to download a selection of 10 free songs that they're offering as a South by SouthWest music sampler. This involved downloading them from iTunes, which was a problem since I've never logged into iTunes from work and I couldn't remember my login/password right away. Once I got that sorted out, it started downloading all ten tracks -- and my computer ground to a halt for nearly half an hour. Yay for memory and process hogs! iTunes ranks with the very best of them!
Later I transfered my downloads to a thumb drive, and for some reason this took time and slowed my computer down a bit too. I'm not sure why; I know mp4's are larger than mp3's, and I know I don't have USB 2.0 ports, but I don't have t hose at home either and I transfered them to my home computer easily. Ah, well.
Free NPR SXSW Music Sampler download page
If you have an iTunes account you might consider downloading these songs. The bands are Blitzen Trapper, David Byrne & The Dirty Projectors, BLK JKS, Blind Pilot, Thao Nguyen, The Decemberists, The Avett Brothers, The Heartless Bastards, K'Naan, and Mayer Hawthorne. In particular I think the songs by The Decemberists and K'Naan are worth it (I already owned those!).
First of all, I set the Lala program loose on my computer last night. I didn't let it know where my main (175 gig) music file was, but I let it sort through my "My Music" file on the main hard drive. It matched up music that I owned to music already on Lala, and then it started uploading everything that it couldn't match up. I don't know if this is such a good idea or not, but I decided to see how things went. It was even uploading my Terry Pratchett novels.
So when I got to work I tried to listen to one of them from their web site, but that attempt failed. Later in the day I realized that, for whatever reason, no web streaming of any sort was working. A reboot fixed that.
I also went to the NPR web site to download a selection of 10 free songs that they're offering as a South by SouthWest music sampler. This involved downloading them from iTunes, which was a problem since I've never logged into iTunes from work and I couldn't remember my login/password right away. Once I got that sorted out, it started downloading all ten tracks -- and my computer ground to a halt for nearly half an hour. Yay for memory and process hogs! iTunes ranks with the very best of them!
Later I transfered my downloads to a thumb drive, and for some reason this took time and slowed my computer down a bit too. I'm not sure why; I know mp4's are larger than mp3's, and I know I don't have USB 2.0 ports, but I don't have t hose at home either and I transfered them to my home computer easily. Ah, well.
Free NPR SXSW Music Sampler download page
If you have an iTunes account you might consider downloading these songs. The bands are Blitzen Trapper, David Byrne & The Dirty Projectors, BLK JKS, Blind Pilot, Thao Nguyen, The Decemberists, The Avett Brothers, The Heartless Bastards, K'Naan, and Mayer Hawthorne. In particular I think the songs by The Decemberists and K'Naan are worth it (I already owned those!).