Now I've gone turbo. It's ripping time!
Sep. 1st, 2006 02:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneI finally configured Grip, the GUI-based CD ripper and MP3 encoder most commonly used on Linux, to give me MP3s formatted the way I like 'em. Now I have my good Linux desktop (yokohama) on the case and it's making a disc into a stack of tunes every ninety seconds. This is a frightening but wonderful speed.
The problem now is that the collection is spread all over the place. I need to make a backup from the Windows laptop and this Linux desktop and have everything available from one server. I'm thinking this box could share out the stuff to the Linux boxes via NFS and the Windows boxes via Samba. I'm also thinking I'm a giant geek with an overly large pre-Internet music collection.
I think I've mentioned this before, but I was talking to Kibo last week about what things aren't on the Internet. He described a corona effect: things from right before the Internet exploded are the things missing from it. I had hoped to make a case in point by saying you can find videos from the early days of MTV and pre-MTV (1970s, early 1980s) on YouTube but not stuff from 1990. Then I found that "Vanilla Ice" and even "Third Bass" pulled up valid hits. However, the latter only pulled up the Gas Face video and not the more famous "Pop Goes the Weasel" (in which Henry Rollins plays Vanilla Ice, says "Cuz ahm from da street, word to yer mother's uncle" and gets beaten with a baseball bat).
There is definitely a feeling the citizens of the Internet are embarrassed about things before the Internet. It's probably because we spend all day bashing other people for being n00bz and don't want to admit we were all n00bz not too long ago. Even something from the early days of web sites is hidden for being cringeworthy.
I can give my own example. Click here and you'll see the only web page I ever made and liked longer than a few minutes. I made it in 1996 and maybe tweaked it in 1997. I made it by hand because there was no decent WYSIWYG tool available. I learned as much about the variety of freeware text editors available for Windows at that time (crap compared to now) as I did about HTML. I made it before there was CSS, which I only vaguely understand. It uses tables, which everyone frowns on now. It assumes a default text color of black, which I only noticed right now.
I can look at this page and feel about the same way I do about my senior picture for the high school yearbook (in which I had my hair long and a exhaust pipe bushing on a rope around my neck). Actually, I think I feel more embarrassed at my yearbook photo because I have to explain more about who I was in that photo (What's a bushing? Why do you have it around your neck? You wore it every day for three years?) then I do about the crack page. Besides, the National Crack Party is not as bad as the Ike Turner page I made.
Do you remember all of those "page under construction" image files? Remember how acceptable that was? "Oh well, another broken site." Someone would get sacked for that now. Then again, we have much higher expectations from web sites: we want to swoop in, download the manual for the old toaster, purchase a new bread maker and leave. This means the shiny web site gets accurate updates from the warehouses about what is available, it has a back end with enough storage to keep ancient files, and it is secure enough to take credit cards.
I've learned a lot in the last decade. I've still got this... uhh, I'll have to brag about myself later. It looks like I crashed Grip by tossing in CDs as fast as it would let me. It was far behind that encoding the wave files into MP3s. I've got five albums and four songs from a sixth album that are still wave files. I'll leave you with the NCP Motto.
-"Keep Crack illegal.
Keep profits high.
Keep chasing the dragon."
The problem now is that the collection is spread all over the place. I need to make a backup from the Windows laptop and this Linux desktop and have everything available from one server. I'm thinking this box could share out the stuff to the Linux boxes via NFS and the Windows boxes via Samba. I'm also thinking I'm a giant geek with an overly large pre-Internet music collection.
I think I've mentioned this before, but I was talking to Kibo last week about what things aren't on the Internet. He described a corona effect: things from right before the Internet exploded are the things missing from it. I had hoped to make a case in point by saying you can find videos from the early days of MTV and pre-MTV (1970s, early 1980s) on YouTube but not stuff from 1990. Then I found that "Vanilla Ice" and even "Third Bass" pulled up valid hits. However, the latter only pulled up the Gas Face video and not the more famous "Pop Goes the Weasel" (in which Henry Rollins plays Vanilla Ice, says "Cuz ahm from da street, word to yer mother's uncle" and gets beaten with a baseball bat).
There is definitely a feeling the citizens of the Internet are embarrassed about things before the Internet. It's probably because we spend all day bashing other people for being n00bz and don't want to admit we were all n00bz not too long ago. Even something from the early days of web sites is hidden for being cringeworthy.
I can give my own example. Click here and you'll see the only web page I ever made and liked longer than a few minutes. I made it in 1996 and maybe tweaked it in 1997. I made it by hand because there was no decent WYSIWYG tool available. I learned as much about the variety of freeware text editors available for Windows at that time (crap compared to now) as I did about HTML. I made it before there was CSS, which I only vaguely understand. It uses tables, which everyone frowns on now. It assumes a default text color of black, which I only noticed right now.
I can look at this page and feel about the same way I do about my senior picture for the high school yearbook (in which I had my hair long and a exhaust pipe bushing on a rope around my neck). Actually, I think I feel more embarrassed at my yearbook photo because I have to explain more about who I was in that photo (What's a bushing? Why do you have it around your neck? You wore it every day for three years?) then I do about the crack page. Besides, the National Crack Party is not as bad as the Ike Turner page I made.
Do you remember all of those "page under construction" image files? Remember how acceptable that was? "Oh well, another broken site." Someone would get sacked for that now. Then again, we have much higher expectations from web sites: we want to swoop in, download the manual for the old toaster, purchase a new bread maker and leave. This means the shiny web site gets accurate updates from the warehouses about what is available, it has a back end with enough storage to keep ancient files, and it is secure enough to take credit cards.
I've learned a lot in the last decade. I've still got this... uhh, I'll have to brag about myself later. It looks like I crashed Grip by tossing in CDs as fast as it would let me. It was far behind that encoding the wave files into MP3s. I've got five albums and four songs from a sixth album that are still wave files. I'll leave you with the NCP Motto.
-"Keep Crack illegal.
Keep profits high.
Keep chasing the dragon."
