iTunes Debacle

iTunes for Windows. It was a pretty-looking program, but at first I hated it. Then I reinstalled Windows XP on my desktop machine. iTunes became the program of choice upon said reinstall. I wanted to give it a chance, really I did. I pointed the "iTunes Music" folder to the writable mp3 share on my fileserver. I imported all my music and started ripping more of my CDs. Next thing I know, I’m looking at my non-writable share (same files) and I see that certain directories are gone and there are a LOT of new directories. ‘WTF?’ I thought to myself. So I took a closer look and proceded to get a tad upset. Okay, maybe not a tad, but extremely upset. Apparently I’d had the lovely option "Let iTunes Organize My Music" option selected. The result was 25gigs of mp3s I’d previously ripped renamed and reorganized. Unfortunately, I a good portion of said MP3s were badly tagged. I now had 25 gigs of my own music (About 150 of my own CDs – some 4800+ files in all) to go through directory-by-directory and clean up. Ugh. Not Fun. I started out by at least putting all the files back in the right directories. That’s when I noticed how badly tagged many of my files were. Most now had the filenames as "songname.mp3." Not "## – songname.mp3" as I’d had them before. So now I needed to not only rename the files, I needed to retag them all as well. 4800+ files. So I deleted them all. "I can re-rip them all. I own the CDs for them all, and it’s not like I don’t have the storage space on my server." My plan was good. I was going to use CDex to rerip them (to ogg, no less) and I’d play them back in Winamp2x. (iTunes does not handle ogg, or so I’ve been told.) Until my remaining optical drive decided it was time to die. So, now I’m left with no music on my computer, and no way to make it so. This is really annoying. I guess that’s what I get for buying a cheap CD-RW drive in the first place. Unfortunately, I don’t really have the money to buy a decent, name-brand drive an this point in time. (Anybody wanna hire a linux geek? I’ve got my resume posted here!) I guess this is just not my year for x86 hardware. <sigh> Anyway… I’m just grumbling. I haven’t updated the site in a while, so here it is. Hopefully the next entry will come sooner, and be happier. Wish the best for me in my job hunt! That’s all from me for now. Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!!]]>