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[psipsy]

Sometime later this month or early September I'm probably going to take another week off. Except this time I'm not going on some mind-bendingly long road trip like I did last year, it'll be more like a bunch of day trips, maybe an overnighter or two. Dates aren't set yet, and I can always bail out and just show up at work anyway. (If I do it on the last week of August I can unwittingly enjoy it over 15,000 times!)

A bit more effort went into the overclockdheart community. Adding some information here and there, while anything design-related will be worried about later on (or handed off to someone else entirely). I'm trying to keep rules there simple and to a minimum, as I know full well how prone my ADD brethren are to tl;dr something.

As I have many many .mp3s (over 9000 and that's not an exaggeration), I figured it would be a good idea to consolidate them on a single drive (with backups of course) so that I don't have to plug in 20 hard drives to have the Full Effect. But! iTunes is kind of a dick when it comes to moving files, unless you do it the iTunes way, which I'm not interested in doing with 90GB of music. The way around that is to make disk image files, pour all the songs into those using the same folder heirarchy, and name the image files to what the hard drive was. Success! And iTunes is none the wiser as long as the image is mounted. Consolidating like this also has the benefit of not having to wait for multiple drives to wake up (and sometimes they don't), and when it comes time to get yet another new drive, it's a matter of copying the image files.

Hungry. Cook, or scrounge? Or both?

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[rubian77.livejournal.com]

As for what you said about iTunes....umm, I wish I understood any of that. But it's not like I need to, since my HD holds the 4800+ that I have on here and I need to go through and cull the bad ones and duplicates before I decide to transfer over the songs from mixes I've been given. :)

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

It all started back in '03, when this here laptop came with a 60GB hard drive. And it filled up fast, especially when I go to look for one song, can't find it in the usual channels, and then the only effective way to get it is by downloading entire discographies. And instead of telling Azureus to just download one file, I figure "why not" and let the whole torrent run its course. Or if I'm getting it through IRC, and it's all part of a .zip file. As a result, I likely have waaaay more than the 90GB that iTunes actually sees. And then the external drives began to multiply. And I redirected music onto the externals, and they too filled.

I could theoretically stuff a 320GB internal drive in this once and for all, but that would mean moving the entire OS as well, and the last time I did that it was a slightly bumpy ride. There's also the problem of iTunes on a 1GHz G4 starting to choke on libraries of 12k songs. It's not so bad on the PC, as it has more horsepower and bigger internal drives.

Also, the whole bit about .dmg files is more of a Mac thing. The Windows equivalent would be .iso files.

So yeah, it's a mess of my own making.