Well, it took just shy of four months, but iTunes Match has finally finished matching my entire song library. That's just shy of 22k songs, so now everything is available (which shocked me by including the vast majority of my japanese soundtracks. And my daughter's kindermusik CDs. And the french concept album for Les Mis. But not my two-disc recording of Jekyll & Hyde, which is very unfortunate).
And now the 32GB on my phone feels a lot less cramped.
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20141029
20140604
iTunes matching?
I'd been debating, for a while, getting iTunes Match to have cloud access to my music (and better-encoded copies of a few songs). Well, finally broke down and did it a day and change ago.
So it looks like the first thing it does, when you sign up, is to identify every song in your library (in my case, a bit more than 22k tracks). I'm guessing it's matching the music itself, rather than the metadata (and there are good reasons for doing that, of course, though some pitfalls as well).
Anyway, I wasn't aware of that, before signing up. If the progress bar is to be believed, in the 30+ hours since signing up (and with a 35Mbps (theoretically) pipe), the process is less than 40% done. This is especially annoying as I now have some good uses for it, and want to try it out.
We'll see how it works out once it finishes, I guess; I don't see any sign of iTunes Match in my phone yet. Hopefully it will appear in some useful format.
So it looks like the first thing it does, when you sign up, is to identify every song in your library (in my case, a bit more than 22k tracks). I'm guessing it's matching the music itself, rather than the metadata (and there are good reasons for doing that, of course, though some pitfalls as well).
Anyway, I wasn't aware of that, before signing up. If the progress bar is to be believed, in the 30+ hours since signing up (and with a 35Mbps (theoretically) pipe), the process is less than 40% done. This is especially annoying as I now have some good uses for it, and want to try it out.
We'll see how it works out once it finishes, I guess; I don't see any sign of iTunes Match in my phone yet. Hopefully it will appear in some useful format.
20140416
Sky blue goes red
I was fortunate to be able to watch the Liverpool v Man City game from the weekend, last night. And it was quite a game, with Liverpool attacking to build-up very quickly. Kompany broke up the first several build-ups by being in the right place, but City wasn't able to do anything in return.
Five minutes in, things looked like they might be improving, as Suarez was carded for a bad tackle.
But things turned wrong very quickly thereafter, as Liverpool managed a very nice counter-attacking goal, with Sterling providing the finish after a couple of very nice fakes. Then things got even worse, as Yaya Toure (sp?) had to go off for an injury (a pull or strain appeared to be the likely culprit). It was less encouraging when his replacement got a yellow card on his first challenge.
Things evened out a little bit after that, insofar as City was finally able to mount a little bit of an attack. But Liverpool won a corner off a counterattack around the twentieth minute (I almost forgot, but it was a corner instead of a goal due to an amazing save by Hart), and Skrtle converted on a beautiful header from a very sharp angle to make City's task appear nearly hopeless.
Liverpool kept up pressure for the rest of the half, but was unable to score another.
City came out firing in the second half (helped by a smart substitution, putting in... Manlin, maybe?), bringing immediate pressure. Nasri and Silva looked far more dangerous, all of a sudden, and City scored one about fifteen minutes into the half. As if that wasn't tense enough, they scored another (it was officially scored as an own goal, for reasons that are beyond me. Yes, the shot deflected off a defender and the goalie, but I still don't see why that's enough to make it an own goal) only a few minutes later.
That made for a very tense rest of the game.
Liverpool fans were getting very concerned, but they managed to find the back of the net around the 80th minute after a badly failed clearing attempt by Kompany went right to Coutinho.
That forced City to push forward even more, and they were pushing hard when Henderson got a straight red for a hard tackle to put Liverpool down a man in stoppage time.
And that's just about when things went south for me, as the DVR had apparently stopped recording with a couple minutes left in stoppage time. Thank goodness that was the final result; I'd've been about ready to kill someone if City had leveled after that and I'd missed it.
But it was one hell of a good game, regardless. I'd been sure for quite a while that City was going to end up winning the league, but now I'm a doubter. Liverpool will have to falter pretty badly, at this point.
Five minutes in, things looked like they might be improving, as Suarez was carded for a bad tackle.
But things turned wrong very quickly thereafter, as Liverpool managed a very nice counter-attacking goal, with Sterling providing the finish after a couple of very nice fakes. Then things got even worse, as Yaya Toure (sp?) had to go off for an injury (a pull or strain appeared to be the likely culprit). It was less encouraging when his replacement got a yellow card on his first challenge.
Things evened out a little bit after that, insofar as City was finally able to mount a little bit of an attack. But Liverpool won a corner off a counterattack around the twentieth minute (I almost forgot, but it was a corner instead of a goal due to an amazing save by Hart), and Skrtle converted on a beautiful header from a very sharp angle to make City's task appear nearly hopeless.
Liverpool kept up pressure for the rest of the half, but was unable to score another.
City came out firing in the second half (helped by a smart substitution, putting in... Manlin, maybe?), bringing immediate pressure. Nasri and Silva looked far more dangerous, all of a sudden, and City scored one about fifteen minutes into the half. As if that wasn't tense enough, they scored another (it was officially scored as an own goal, for reasons that are beyond me. Yes, the shot deflected off a defender and the goalie, but I still don't see why that's enough to make it an own goal) only a few minutes later.
That made for a very tense rest of the game.
Liverpool fans were getting very concerned, but they managed to find the back of the net around the 80th minute after a badly failed clearing attempt by Kompany went right to Coutinho.
That forced City to push forward even more, and they were pushing hard when Henderson got a straight red for a hard tackle to put Liverpool down a man in stoppage time.
And that's just about when things went south for me, as the DVR had apparently stopped recording with a couple minutes left in stoppage time. Thank goodness that was the final result; I'd've been about ready to kill someone if City had leveled after that and I'd missed it.
But it was one hell of a good game, regardless. I'd been sure for quite a while that City was going to end up winning the league, but now I'm a doubter. Liverpool will have to falter pretty badly, at this point.
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