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February 27, 2005
Uploading mystery
I am totally mystified. BP is copying LPs to CD. Great delight; suddenly we have Charlie Christian and Edden Hammons in our CD rotations, replete with the wonderful clicks and pops (though BP has wisely used the EQ to reduce those as much as possible). He burns the CDs from LPs; I do the CD covers. But when I do the CD covers, I also copy the CDs to iTunes, as a backup. We've had several tragedies, where a CD he's worked on for half a day has played once and then retired. So I back up the CDs until they've proven themselves through several playings.
To make the CD labels, I'm using Microsoft Word (sorry, folks, I still haven't gotten into CD Stomper, etc.), and I'm entering the album title, year, artist, and the names and times of the songs. And as I upload the CD to iTunes, I have to enter the same information. Yes, it's laborious, but it's also somehow fun. I enjoy doing the cover design, finding just the right image (often but not always the album cover itself), choosing fonts and colors, etc.
Yet here's the mystery: BP is copying the multi-record Springsteen Live 1975-85, one of the last LPs we purchased. I make the label for the first CD, as usual. Then I put his third CD into the well, and iTunes recognizes the CD, automatically providing album title, year, artist, and the names and times of the songs! How does that happen? I know that iTunes will do that automatically for commercially prepared CDs, but this one was burned at home, copied from an LP! It didn't happen with the first CD that BP made from Live 1975-85. But even that is beside the point: how could iTunes ever recognize a homemade CD?
Posted by senioritis at February 27, 2005 08:45 AM
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