I haz shiney

[pecunium]

My Canadian Girlfriend Loffs Me.

Which is, I suppose, what one should expect. commodorified came to visit me after visiting fairestcat and going to WisCon. This is good. I get to introduce her to my father/sisters, and show her Eastern Tennessee.

We went shopping last night, and I bought bread flour (King Arthur's), and checked the local brands. White Lilly's all purpose is 2 percent protein. That's the same as Swan's Lake Cake Flour. I'll have to get Maia's banana bread recipe and see how it does with the softer flour.

She also brought be a birthday present, a bright; newly reconditioned, iPod Nano, which iclysdale was kind enough to load up with 7 gigs of music; mostly strange to me.

I've loaded the songs onto my machine. I'll have to sort it out (right now all the song titles are four-letter strings ABBA, ABRD, CBGB, etc.. But the artists/albums are correct). First step, make the folders non-hidden.

Second, import the songs to my iTunes. Third... synch the iPod to my iTunes, so I can build a library I wan't to take with me for amusement when I head to SF at the end of the month.

Life is pretty good right now.

Comments

[ckd]

Yup. It uses the tags, so as long as everything on your iPod was properly tagged, it doesn't care if you import it from a file named WKRP.m4a or Total Eclipse of the Heart.m4a...iTunes will put it in what it (and I) consider the right place.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The thing which caught my eye is those letter names were generated by iTunes. They were titled properly on the parent machine, and they are titled properly on the iPod, and they are now properly titled in my iTunes, but in the folders (copied from the iPod), they have completely non-identifiable titles.

As to what it calls things, if I change all the data, it will keep the new data.

[ckd]

Yeah, the iPod uses a database to translate song titles to those funky short names. I'm not sure if it's an attempt to stop the simplest ways of getting files off the iPod, an efficiency hack, or both.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured, but when I got this iPod, it had music. If I just synched it up, I'd lose that music, so I copied it to disc, and the names were all jibberish.

Which, had I not been moving it to iTunes, would have been a problem. Now I can synch it up (I may lose some songs, which were duplicates, since purged), but I don't lose all the new stuff.