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Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?  

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NoiseDesign - Dec 30, 2006 11:43:30 am PST #9944 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

If you want a free two track editor that is pretty good check out Audacity. It's available for Mac, WinXP, and Linux.


sumi - Dec 30, 2006 11:45:15 am PST #9945 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Okay. Thanks.


sumi - Dec 30, 2006 12:15:00 pm PST #9946 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Hello Kitty ipod dock!

Alas, too late for Christmas.


tommyrot - Dec 30, 2006 12:15:03 pm PST #9947 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

How do I get iTunes to stop looking for those files, without going through and manually deleting each entry? Because that's a pain in the neck and hard on my hands.

Are you running iTunes on a PC or Mac? If it's a Mac, you could download a script that would delete all these for you. This site [link] should have a script that does that.

eta: Ah, here it is: Super Remove Dead Tracks v1.5

Surveys iTunes for tracks that are no longer available on the local drive (as indicated by a "!" next to their names) and removes them. Any playlists that subsequently contain no tracks will then be deleted. Progress is displayed every 500 tracks. This is a more radical version of Remove Dead Tracks.


le nubian - Dec 30, 2006 12:38:01 pm PST #9948 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

here's a pc version (english text is right above the comments)

[link]


Consuela - Dec 30, 2006 12:57:43 pm PST #9949 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

le nubian, thank you!

And yes, I have a PC. So I just unzip this file and run it while iTunes is running?


Kevin - Dec 30, 2006 12:58:37 pm PST #9950 of 10003
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Has anybody else noticed an increase in spam recently?


Jon B. - Dec 30, 2006 1:01:10 pm PST #9951 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You would need a wire to connect your record player line out socket(assuming it has one) to your PC line in, or microphone socket. Then you need to use a sound recorder program to record each song, and then save the file to a .mp3... It's possible, it depends what sockets are on the record player.

My turntable is connected to my receiver/amp, which has RCA plugs for recording onto a cassette deck. I have RCA cables running from the "record" plugs on the receiver to my computer. At the computer end, I have a small adaptor (easily obtainable at Radio Shack) that accepts two male RCA plugs on one side, and has a stereo mini-plug on the other side. The stereo mini-plug plugs into the microphone plug of my computer.

I'll second Audacity as excellent free software to do the recording.


omnis_audis - Dec 30, 2006 1:06:45 pm PST #9952 of 10003
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

How do I get iTunes to stop looking for those files, without going through and manually deleting each entry? Because that's a pain in the neck and hard on my hands.

you can delete from within iTunes, and it asks "remove from iTunes or delete from HD". Just clicky delete. Of course that doesn't help you now, but, thought I'd mention.

The other option, I suppose, is "consolidating" my library but I'm worried about that because I don't like the way iTunes sorts things. It has a terrible time managing soundtracks and compilations, I've noticed.

If you do the "get info" there is a check box that ask if it is a compliation. Of course, then it sorts it in a compliation folder, which might not be where ya want it.

And Kevin, YES! I've noticed a LARGE increase in SPAM lately. Hate it!


Theodosia - Dec 30, 2006 1:48:35 pm PST #9953 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Kevin, I think I saw some article somewhere about a recent increase in spam volume. The newest thing is sending a .GIF file with the spam ad in it, with a bunch of text that is designed to be random enough to not trigger the spam-blocking parser.