corn on the cob
I noticed that the iPod software refused to copy any song that
didn't have a valid
ID3
tag. Unfortunately for me there is a lot of my music missing such
tags. Back in the Napster days I downloaded tons of stuff that
wasn't tagged and about 3 years ago, I ripped my CD collection but
forgot to set the tags correctly. So, most likely I will re-rip my
collection after I am done with my current ripping project and then
find the remaining untagged files and fix them somehow.
I decided I needed a way to crawl my mp3 directory and find any
files that are not tagged, saving the names of the untagged mp3's
to a file. I wrote a little C program to do this and from this
experience learnt a couple of things, firstly, C is
really
really fast, it took less than 2 minutes to scan 90GB's of
music, opening each and every file, and checking for a string that
might appear within the first three bytes of each file. The second
thing I learnt was that I have lots and lots of untagged music,
mostly, the stuff I got from Napster. I know of several programs
that do batch tagging,
easytag isn't too bad and
Exfalso,
part of the Quodlibet program. I guess I will have to sit down one
evening and try to do some tag voodoo to make my collection iPod
compliant but I do wish my iPod would
STHU about tags and just play the
song.
Corn season in Ontario is in full swing and although my family like
to barbecue corn in the husk, my favorite is to simply boil it, I
find it is more tender and far more juicy this way. One trick to
getting extra Delicious corn on the cob is to not salt the water,
but instead add a little sugar and some lemon juice. Try it!