Category Archives: Audio

The Advantage Live

listening to “The Advantage Live- Contra Boss Music” Contra!!!

MZ 412: Infernal Affairs

Infamous “death industrial” from Sweden this album departs for a more dark ambient approach. Very creepy and perfect for late nights! “MZ 412 – Infernal Affairs I

Marian by The Sisters of Mercy

Marian by The Sisters of Mercy #lastfm: http://bit.ly/9gidx5 amazon: http://amzn.to/2LjBbP

Siouxsie and the Banshees live in 1981 Köln, Germany

Arabian Knights

iTunes 9 unable to create home share

Here’s a quick fix to an arcane problem. I was getting a strange error 11556 when trying to sign-in using a valid MobileMe account… Which in turn was preventing me from enabling what they now call Home Sharing.

iTunes Power Tagging

If you care about maintaining your music collection, sooner or later iTunes will frustrate you. At that point, 3rd parties can create scripts to control it in some really amazing ways. Here are the the essentials I use… Quick Convert Uber-easy way to compress your existing Library files. The default 128Kbps AAC sounds as good [...]

Moving the iTunes Library

Chances are the time may come, where you find yourself running out of space on your default iTunes volume. Moving the location of these files (without rebuilding all the metadata) can be done, it just may not be that obvious how… Open iTunes Music Library.xml from ~/Music/iTunes/ in a text editor. I recommend TextMate. Find and replace [...]

The iPod Pubertus

This is the iPod Classic 160GB I bought myself for turning 30… His name is Pubertus. The reference is from the Robot Chicken spoof of Harry Potter. It currently holds almost 30K songs. Yeah that is a lot. I also got a gay little green sock to put him in. I needed something dammit. Now [...]

iTunes now hates iScrobbler

Beware of the iTunes version 7.2 (and higher) in Apple Software Update! iScrobbler plug-in version 1.1.0 will no longer submit your tracks to the Last.fm database. Shame upon Apple and their nefarious crippleware.

Winamp versus iTunes

Let me begin by saying I have been a die-hard Winamp user for almost a decade. I have stayed up with all versions (except the buggy v3 series) and have arguably used it more than any other application. These observations are also all made on iTunes for Windows, obviously.