Category Archives: organization

Audio, Milestones, and so on

Posted on March 24, 2009 by baudattitude

Baud Attitude passed 100,000 hits today, which is pretty good considering that 90% of the material here is interesting to, oh, me and the three or four RL friends who read this. 🙂 But that’s not really today’s topic. Today … Continue reading →

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Two Years Blog

Posted on March 3, 2009 by baudattitude

First, a self-congratulatory stats regurgitation before I get on to today’s normal post. Today is the second anniversary of Baud Attitude, which really goes to show how much I love talking about myself. Surprisingly, about 95000 people have come here … Continue reading →

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Media Transfer Progression

Posted on February 18, 2009 by baudattitude

Things are humming along nicely.  In the 3 days since I finished transferring the last of the audiocassettes, I’ve gotten ten out of the thirty minidiscs – the thirty minidiscs that actually have content unique to them, that is, content … Continue reading →

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One more media milestone

Posted on February 16, 2009 by baudattitude

Finally have all the audiocassettes – all the ones I’m going to bother with, anyway – recorded onto a PC as 16-bit, 48KHz WAV files.  I have an awful lot of audiocassettes that I’m simply not bothering with.  They’re mostly … Continue reading →

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One month with a new OS

Posted on February 2, 2009 by baudattitude

After moving my desktop from XP Professional to Vista Professional at the beginning of January, I decided to leave it mostly software-free and just install things as I needed them, keeping a log as I went.  The results were, well, … Continue reading →

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More from the Hive Mind

Posted on January 26, 2009 by baudattitude

So, having a portable media pl… oh, all right, I’ll just come out and say it… an iPod that can hold all of our music collection has lead to some interesting revelations. First revelation:  We have a lot of music; … Continue reading →

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Building a Better Basket

Posted on January 18, 2009 by baudattitude

So if you’ve read the last couple weeks of posts, you know just how proud I am of the Windows Server 2008 box I put together, put all our media on, and then… most importantly… actually backed up. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Man Purchases eBook

Posted on January 13, 2009 by baudattitude

One of my life priorities right now is getting ready to move to attend college, which involves a certain amount of horror at the amount of stuff I’m going to have to move and an associated certain about of “do … Continue reading →

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945.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by baudattitude

For the record, 945 is the number of albums currently represented in our music library.  Not 945 full albums, mind you, there are an awful lot of singles in there, and quite a few tracks bought from Amazon or iTunes … Continue reading →

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Album Art is Hell

Posted on January 6, 2009 by baudattitude

(Warning: Semi-stream-of-conciousness rambling follows, I didn’t really edit for clarity.  Sorry.) Pain is the best educator. For example: We keep all of our music organized with Windows Media Player.  It’s not the best thing out there, but it was the … Continue reading →

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