I have to say that MusicBrainz is the BEST software EVER. I set it loose and all of my 12K or so MP3z and it is making smooth work of most of them. Now it can’t find everything, but it will sure make my job easier when most of them are tagged properly. I really should donate some money to the developers for making such a bitchin product. For those that don’t know what MusicBrainz it….. Its an application that creates a checksum of each MP3 that you have and compares it to the online database that they have and then returns the proper ID3 tag info, that you can write to the file. It uses some kind of acoustic fingerprinting to be able to scan the files at different bitrates and still come up with an accurate guess about what the song is. Its great.
We finally recieved our new 5.8GHz phone from Amazon, and wouldn’t you know it, but two of the 3 phone jacks in our apartment don’t work. It figures I guess, but for now we have phones in easy accessible locations. While I still don’t have one in the Computer Room/Office hopefully they can get the phone guy in sometime this week and get it fixed.
Kelly and I went to Fry’s on Friday and I picked up a new Netgear 108 Mbps Wireless Router and a PCI adapter for my desktop. So now we are completely wire free in our apartment, and believe me it is nice. I just hope that Apple will release an Atheros driver for Airport Extreme that can take advantage of the dual-channel 802.11g protocol so that I can get faster access between the desktop and the Powerbooks so that I can move large files easier.
Well I should have my XBox in hand on Thursday or so. Thanks to James. He is the XBox Master. He managed to get it working in no time at all, I guess all it took were the right tools. I can’t wait. I guess I will have to get a wireless adapter for it, or just drag a really long Cat-5 cable across the floor when I need to connect to it.
Yawn… I have to be in to work at 6 tomorrow because I have phone duty. Grrrrr I actually have to talk to people. Grrrrrrr. Oh well that just means that I get to get off at 3, and start my mini-vacation early. I’m just glad that I have more comp-time then PTO right now, so I can still have plenty of real vacation time for later. AND as soon as I start my damn flex-schedule I probably won’t use much PTO at all, I mean who would when you get a three day weekend EVERY weekend.
Almost time for Vegas…….