nope, still not being productive. Hey, it's my night off.

[dragonlady7]

So. Dave and I are hanging out and listening to records. Except of course we don't have a record player, so we're listening to his Morphine CD's ripped to iTunes. Of course.
Dave's decided he's going to listen to his iTunes library sorted by the song release date. Which would be interesting. A sample:
1976:
The Chieftains 6: Buonaparte's Retreat
Wild Cherry: Wild Cherry

1979:
The Clash: London Calling
The Muppet Movie soundtrack: The Rainbow Connection (Kermit The Frog)
Pink Floyd: The Wall

1983:
Yo-Yo Ma: Six Suites For Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: selections from the Vaughan boxed set

1985:
Big Audio Dynamite: This is Big Audio Dynamite
1986:
Paul Simon: Graceland

1988:
Motorhead: No Remorse
The Talking Heads: Naked

1993:
Moxy Fruvous: Bargainville
Us3: Hand on the Torch
Violent Femmes: Add It Up
Blues Traveller: Save His Soul
Metal Detector: Winter '93
Morphine: Cure For Pain

1994:
Bon Jovi: Greatest Hits
Bootsy Collins: Greatest Hits
Canned Heat: Greatest Hits
Green Day: Dookie
John Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange
NoFX: Punk in Drublic
Offspring: Smash
Pizzicato Five: Made in Usa
Rusted Roots: When I Woke
They Might Be Giants: John Henry
Tori Amos: Under The Pink

You know, precious little has been done since '95 that's worth mentioning anyway.
But the transitions are humorous. I suppose listening to the whole library that way would be entertaining, if some of the id3 tags on the mp3s weren't screwy.
But it makes me think of High Fidelity where he goes and re-organizes his record collection chronologically by date acquired. Heh, iTunes, come up with an id3 tag for that. "Date Created" isn't the same.
But, in the future, when people begin their record collections electronically, instead of everything having an import date of the day you brought the iMac home (20 GB of my collection has a creation date of July 12-17 2003 because that was the week I spent importing all my CDs into the new computer)... In the future, your record collection will be able to sort itself by the date you acquired it, if you so chose. It can already alphabetize itself or sort by track time or release date.

Sort of... a different world, from the time when I carried all 24 of the CDs I owned in one of those little wallets, alphabetized by artist name. (That was trauma, when I bought my 25th CD and it didn't fit.)



In other, unrelated news, we think God is trying to communicate with us, but tragically we have no idea what He's saying because we don't know Morse code. And so the world can't be saved.

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[kittyc1978.livejournal.com]

Sort of... a different world, from the time when I carried all 24 of the CDs I owned in one of those little wallets, alphabetized by artist name. (That was trauma, when I bought my 25th CD and it didn't fit.)

I know! It was torture!