So .. what've I been up to?
Well, recently I've been mostly ... re-discovering† my dusty old LPs. Having
One of the entertaining fringe benefits to this is introducing the children to records. Now I'm not a DJ .. and no-one† I come into contact with these days is either. My children aren't (quite) old enough to frequent clubs yet so they haven't really seen good ol' vinyl in action. My four-year-old† is particularly amused by them.
"So .. how do they work?"
"What: you put the needle on it and it makes sound?"
Ho, ho, yes! I'm reminded of a conversation years ago when my eldest was about 2. We saw the shattered remains of a 7" single in the gutter. She pointed and said "CD-ROM†, daddy!"
The turn-table† ships with - and recommends - Audacity to do the actual recording and encoding. As I already have the latest version installed, this suits me down to the ground. The kids regularly play about recording themselves and speeding it up or adding weird effects. They make up skits and songs and all sorts. My hard-disk is filling up rapidly.
Speaking of which, I have another on-going† project. Tagging MP3s. I have ammassed some 3300-odd† tracks on my jukebox at home - from ripped CDs etc.. It makes more sense to have them in one place and in a format I can take anywhere. It also leaves me the legacy of tagging them all. Over 2000 were unlabelled.
In steps aTunes. A delightful clone of iTunes .. without the DRM nonsense.
So now I'm listening to "Up the Junction" .. ah, memories.
† in reaction to the recent report that the English language is losing the hypen, I have made a concious effort to sprinkle this post with them. I'm like that; draw your own conclusions.
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