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Archive for April, 2006

The edge of paranoia

Posted in Nonsense, tagged on April 29, 2006 | 2 Comments »

I’ve happily been using cdparanoia to rip my CDs for years. In the last few days, however, I’ve been finding out things about CDDA extraction in general and cdparanoia in particular that made my bit-exact confidence in my ripped CDs drop to zero. I was trying to exactly recreate a CD by reading the TOC [...]

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Tagging multi-disc albums

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Some thoughts which may be helpful to other metadata purists. The music player of my choice, Rhythmbox, uses the ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE and TRACKNUMBER tags in Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files to order music by artist and album with the correct track and order. A lot of albums have multiple discs, which until recently I [...]

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Wanna die?

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , on April 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »

One of the first Korean movies I saw was My Sassy Girl. I absolutely loved it and I even dare say that it is the best romantic comedy I have ever seen. I’ve since seen a pile of Korean romantic comedies and of course many more of Hollywood origin, but few come close. The nameless [...]

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This is not a fashion blog

Posted in Nonsense, tagged on April 5, 2006 | 2 Comments »

In my grand plan, the prime purpose of this blog is not to write about things quite so superficial as my hairstyle, but that is what’s on my mind today. Almost four years ago, I stopped cutting my hair. Time and gravity eventually made it so long that a good friend of mine was practically [...]

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