Solstice
Longest day of the year, soon to be followed by shorter and shorter.
Be nice to say that I'd accomplished some change today. But no, all I really did was catch up on some of my sleep debt. At this rate, I need about a month in hibernation.
In the process of switching over from Apple software. Not a total boycott, but for a long while, there have been certain things which have annoyed me, which I have overlooked or found ways to work around because, hey, it's Apple!
No more of that. I've never used Safari in the first place, but now I'm abandoning iTunes (except for the free weekly song download at Apple's expense), DVD Player, and a host of other pre-installed products which I consider to be lacking in functionality or generally bothersome.
As part of this, I've been ripping my music collection out to FLAC and thence Ogg Vorbis. I'd probably go straight to Vorbis, but I've been thinking of keeping the FLACs around partly out of paranoia, and partly because they'll take up space on the hard drive which can be easily freed up the next time I need extra, because I own the cds/dvds and happily delete stuff without having to scramble to burn a backup disc.
I'd actually have preferred to go with APE, for the space savings, but there's no readily available command-line tool to tag those. I tried apetag, but it a) failed to compile, and b) when I edited the source to get it to compile, failed to recognize or apply any tags to a file, something that may have resulted from my hacking, or maybe it would have just happened on its own.
In any case, FLAC can be transcoded directly to Ogg, is much faster to encode and verify on my machine, and the space savings are only about a meg per file anyway.
Be nice to say that I'd accomplished some change today. But no, all I really did was catch up on some of my sleep debt. At this rate, I need about a month in hibernation.
In the process of switching over from Apple software. Not a total boycott, but for a long while, there have been certain things which have annoyed me, which I have overlooked or found ways to work around because, hey, it's Apple!
No more of that. I've never used Safari in the first place, but now I'm abandoning iTunes (except for the free weekly song download at Apple's expense), DVD Player, and a host of other pre-installed products which I consider to be lacking in functionality or generally bothersome.
As part of this, I've been ripping my music collection out to FLAC and thence Ogg Vorbis. I'd probably go straight to Vorbis, but I've been thinking of keeping the FLACs around partly out of paranoia, and partly because they'll take up space on the hard drive which can be easily freed up the next time I need extra, because I own the cds/dvds and happily delete stuff without having to scramble to burn a backup disc.
I'd actually have preferred to go with APE, for the space savings, but there's no readily available command-line tool to tag those. I tried apetag, but it a) failed to compile, and b) when I edited the source to get it to compile, failed to recognize or apply any tags to a file, something that may have resulted from my hacking, or maybe it would have just happened on its own.
In any case, FLAC can be transcoded directly to Ogg, is much faster to encode and verify on my machine, and the space savings are only about a meg per file anyway.
posted by Alexander the Drake at 9:01 pm
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