{"id":80,"date":"2008-11-19T00:58:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.11h.net\/erich\/80"},"modified":"2008-11-19T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:58:17","slug":"new-laptops-bbc-it-crowd-itunes-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/new-laptops-bbc-it-crowd-itunes-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"New laptops, BBC, IT Crowd, iTunes backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently preparing for a data migration from my current laptop to either the same laptop with a re-freshed Windows XP install or a new laptop with a fresh Windows XP install.\u00a0 The IT guy helping me with a failed forced update patch had the same reaction to my system as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qAuLqaLGvZU\">Derek<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qAuLqaLGvZU\"> did to Chip&#8217;s<\/a> system and suggested that I migrate.<\/p>\n<p>The only real thing I care about on my laptop is my iTunes (yeah go ahead, make fun of me) library.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of the preparation for a new system I have been re-organizing my iTunes library to make it smaller so that the migration would not take so long.\u00a0 I discovered that I have a number of duplicate songs and a lot of the songs that did not have proper metadata.\u00a0 I assume that when I ripped the CDs (on my file server), my Perl script did not add the ID3 tags correctly which would explain why I added the songs again from another source (with proper tags).\u00a0 Bugger.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here I am, re-organizing my iTunes and watching the second show of IT Crowd season two.\u00a0 I ended up listening to a song from my music that was un-tagged and realized that it was Delia Derbyshire from the BBC&#8217;s Radiophic Workshop.\u00a0 She was most famous for her work in creating the Dr. Who theme song.<\/p>\n<p>There was a youtube video that I saw of her doing reel to reel loops and mixing in the form of monome.\u00a0 Only 40 some years earlier than when monome came out.<\/p>\n<p>If there is someone that I would have liked to meet, it would have been Delia.\u00a0 She&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently preparing for a data migration from my current laptop to either the same laptop with a re-freshed Windows XP install or a new laptop with a fresh Windows XP install. The IT guy helping me with a failed forced update patch had the same reaction to my system as Derek did to Chip&#8217;s system and suggested that I migrate.<\/p>\n<p>The only real thing I care about on my laptop is my iTunes (yeah go ahead, make fun of me) library.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of the preparation for a new system I have been re-organizing my iTunes library to make it smaller so that the migration would not <a href=\"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/new-laptops-bbc-it-crowd-itunes-backup\/\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}