Вторник 24 Окт 2006, 3:14

I've been spending the last few days re-ripping my CDs after last week's hard drive meltdown. If you see me listening to more than the usual amounts of the Queers, Bowling for Soup, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, the Vandals, and Rufus Wainwright, that just because those went into the burner first. I'll be back to my usual more eclectic self before long. I've already started on the Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin, Joan Armatrading, and Wendy Carlos piles.

What's really turning out to be a pain in my ass is the MP3 tags. I'm extremely anal about things like having correct genre and year tags, among others, and I'd forgotten how long it takes to get all those right. MusicBrainz is a huge help, but it won't get you all the way there.

I've got Big Boys tracks coming up with a genre tag of "Other" for Christ's sake! If the scrobbler picked up genres, I'd be hanging my head in embarrassment. Or hiding it up my ass, just because I felt like throwing in one more gratuitous reference to my butt.