Happiness Is A Well Organized iTunes

As some of you may know, I am really hoping for the man in the big red coat to get me an iPhone for the holidays. Well, in preparation for the event whether it happens or not, it motivated me to create a balanced, organized and awesome iTunes library which my iPhone could sync to. This means I want everything to be ready for easy sorting and syncing. Yes everything, album art, and all the fields filled in (minus ratings). So I copied non-iTunes store music over to my laptop from my desktop and started the process of filling in the loose ends.

The reason I am trying to get all the album art working, is because on the iPhone you use the newer cover flow method of viewing your music. In my case I was trying to get all the music under one album to go under one image for the cover art. The problem, is even if I copy all the same information to easy song except for the title of the song, I can not get some of the music to go under one album. For example, I have the Legion of Doom's album "Incorporated" and even though I have ripped the music directly from the CD, the album art splits into two images for the one album.

I would understand this if there were multiple CDs to the album, like Metallica's S&M 1 and 2, but they just split, and like I said, even after all the data in the entry being the same. I could ask my friend at the apple store but I was going to try and figure it out before I asked an "Apple Genius." He knows how much I loath apple computers. Although I have to say they make some fine other products.

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Dangerous Business Since 1986

I have come to the same conclusion as Ms. Puddin', that I have nothing to write about these days. There is too much going on in my life to find time to sit down and come up with something creative, other than what I have done in the past few days. I seldom speak of the things I do, but I haven't done it in a while, so I will describe my awesome weekend in Arizona visiting my girlfriend.

Have you ever just been in a funk? Well last week was like that. I was sick on Monday and didn't feel one hundred percent until Wednesday. Then I spent the remainder of the week doing work for classes in order to have nothing to do for the long weekend. My goal was accomplished but I was more exhausted than an asthmatic after running the mile.

I drove to my parents house after my night class on Thursday in order to get picked up by a car to take me to Oakland airport the next morning. My flight was early in the morning, 9a.m. Well, that is early for me. I had trouble keeping my eyes open, but was unable to fall asleep due to the large man that sat next to me. I don't understand it either. It was a Southwest flight, you know, the one where you pick where you want to sit. Who would want to sit next to me? A shady, up-to-nothing college student with a hefty pack full of electronic equipment.

I tried to reach my iPod, but the hefty man made that impossible. I was lucky enough to have put my copy of Wired in the seat pocket in from of me. It kept me occupied until we got to San Diego where I had to de-plane and board the connecting flight to Tuscon. On the second flight I was able to sit with no one next to me, but I was too awake from the whole experience that I just didn't bother trying to sleep.

So this past weekend I got to spend an amazing amount of time with my girlfriend. We went to some great restaurants, some of which I wish were here in the South Bay. We rented Fracture, which was a great movie. We also went and saw American Gangster, which was also a great movie, long but great. My girlfriend also took me to see the University of Arizona Icecats (their hockey team) pummel the Long Beach State 49ers. If you can't tell, I love hockey, and it was awesome to go with her, since she had never been to a hockey game before.

I was sad that I had to go home, it felt like a short amount of time spent together but I am not going to complain about the opportunity to travel for the weekend. So it is only a week from Thanksgiving tomorrow, and I couldn't want to start a diet more. Maybe it will be my New Year's resolution. You know... after I eat all that great holiday meals. After we finish the eleven pounds of left-over Halloween candy. Well I need to start working on my design project due tomorrow as well as the TOC and masthead for Access.