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the_rckOur DSL came back for a couple of hours last night but is out again this morning. I'm trying to decide if I should trek to the library or not. It's chilly and threatening rain, and the DSL came back for approximately five minutes round about 8:00, just long enough to retrieve my e-mail. If I do go to the library, it would be more to post this and check Tumblr (I'm going to have to declare a Tumblr amnesty once I have a reliable connection again) than anything else, and I probably should just focus on my Remix. That's due on the 4th, and I'm not even halfway done.
The local nature center had an Earth Day celebration yesterday. Cordelia went for a couple of hours with the neighbor kids. She brought home quite a bit of stuff, two pens, a necklace, a bunch of papers and some flower seeds that we have no place to plant (they need full sun. There's nowhere in our yard that gets more than about four hours of sun a day).
iTunes apparently depends completely on having internet to identify CDs and their songs. That seems wrong to me. Such information should be part of the CD. Requiring internet for it is simply stupid. I also, without internet, can't play any of my Big Fish games. Not that I should be playing hidden object games right at the moment. There's too much writing to be done. But still.
As far as my Remix goes, last night, I had Scott read what I've got so far, and I talked it over with him. He thinks I need to expand the scene I'm currently writing. I was hoping that I could extricate myself from it quickly. It's all set up that comes before the truly remixy part of things. I suppose I am writing stuff that was implied in the first paragraphs of the section I'm remixing. I just want to get to the stuff that's more solidly part of it.
The local nature center had an Earth Day celebration yesterday. Cordelia went for a couple of hours with the neighbor kids. She brought home quite a bit of stuff, two pens, a necklace, a bunch of papers and some flower seeds that we have no place to plant (they need full sun. There's nowhere in our yard that gets more than about four hours of sun a day).
iTunes apparently depends completely on having internet to identify CDs and their songs. That seems wrong to me. Such information should be part of the CD. Requiring internet for it is simply stupid. I also, without internet, can't play any of my Big Fish games. Not that I should be playing hidden object games right at the moment. There's too much writing to be done. But still.
As far as my Remix goes, last night, I had Scott read what I've got so far, and I talked it over with him. He thinks I need to expand the scene I'm currently writing. I was hoping that I could extricate myself from it quickly. It's all set up that comes before the truly remixy part of things. I suppose I am writing stuff that was implied in the first paragraphs of the section I'm remixing. I just want to get to the stuff that's more solidly part of it.
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Date: 2014-04-28 03:14 pm (UTC)It is a part of the CD. It's printed on the label!! :-)
No, really, the problem is that the basic CD format was defined around 1979, when the idea of extracting the music files for other purposes didn't exist. Heck, the personal computer didn't exist in any meaningful sense, certainly nothing that could manipulate audio files. There have been a few bolt-on track-ID functions like CD Text added later, but those are not common enough for iTunes to rely on them.
The Gracenote database which Apple and (all?) other CD-identifying applications use was originally a crowdsourced effort back in the 1990s, and all that free labor somehow got bought and taken private.