Tonight I’m trying to import my MP3 collection into a new iTunes install (10.5.0.142) on top of a fresh OS (Windows 7) install. I’ve had troubles in the past with this: Duplicated albums and songs, songs getting moved to different albums, etc. So I decided to import a couple albums at a time and keep a really close eye on it as it progresses.
The first two or three artists imported just fine, but on the 4th one (Dada, two albums) I noticed that the songs were all mixed together and the album titles were lost. Worse, I looked in the file system and saw that instead of two album folders there were now three, the new one called “Unknown Album” now contained all of the mp3s that belonged in the other two real albums. On one hand I’m very glad that I decided to do this bit by bit, but on the other hand…THIS IS VERY ANNOYING!
So, I removed the songs from iTunes (careful to keep the files) and moved the MP3s back where they belonged. Then I turned OFF the “Keep iTunes Media folder organized” option under Edit->Preferences->Advanced. This stopped iTunes from moving my mp3s to “Unknown Album” BUT it still didn’t bring the Album into iTunes so I was stuck with the prospect of figuring out which song belonged to which album and editing a LOT of data. Not good enough!
So I started searching for answers. After a bit of searching around I found this thread which gave me something to try: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2807880?start=0&tstart=0
Sure enough. If my MP3s were encoded by iTunes 9x then they lose the album data on import to iTunes 10. Wow, very annoying but at least I have something to go on. After a bit of testing I’ve found I can get them to import correctly if I remove the “Encoded by” tag whenever that tag is iTunes 9.
At this point I’m going to upgrade to iTunes 10.5.1 and see if that helps. If not maybe I should really be done with iTunes…
Posted by Greg on November 18th, 2011 :: Filed under
Uncategorized
This week I reinstalled my OS (long overdue!) and while I was at it got the latest releases of many pieces of software I use. These updates included both NetBeans 7.0.1 and TortoiseSVN 1.7.1. Then I used TortioseSVN to check out a project and opened the project in NetBeans. Next time I started NetBeans I was presented with the following message:
org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: The path ‘C:\Users\path to my project‘ appears to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater
working copy. Please upgrade your Subversion client to use this
working copy.
After some web searching I realized that the upgrade to Tortoise 1.7.1 meant that I was now using the 1.7 Subversion client…which has some significant differences from the 1.6 client. It also became apparent that NetBeans hasn’t yet upgraded to Subversion 1.7, but they will do-so soon.
Here is a link to the story, with some work-arounds if you’re interested: http://netbeans.org/projects/versioncontrol/pages/Subversion1_7. I’ve decided I’ll use only TortoiseSVN for my SVN Needs until the NetBeans release that supports SVN 1.7 comes along.
Posted by Greg on November 17th, 2011 :: Filed under
Programming,
Subversion
Last Friday I had my final Physical Therapy appointment. I have to say that this really gives me mixed feelings. First off I can’t believe it’s been 6 months since my ACL reconstruction surgery. Second, I can’t believe it’s only been six months since the surgery. Next, I feel nervous. Why nervous? Let me explain.
The 6 month Physical Therapy appointment is a special one in that the Physical Therapist had me perform a series of stepping, hopping, jumping tests. I performed each of these tests first with my unaffected leg, then again with my affected leg. The idea is to establish a % of capability between the two. I went into this appointment pretty sure that my affected leg was significantly behind the unaffected one. I’d had a couple setbacks over the summer; the worst of these was a really long lasting case of bronchitis that kept me off the more aggressive PT routines (jogging) for several weeks.
Long story short, I was correct. My affected leg is at about 75% of the unaffected one. My Physical Therapist says that they like to release people to do their prior level of activity (in my case downhill skiing only when the affected leg is around 85-90% of the unaffected one). What does that mean for me? Well, it simply means more physical therapy. Continue running, continue the strengthening exercises, continue the agility exercises.
He also told me that this is completely normal. All through the process, right from the beginning, everyone has said “As quick as 6 months from your surgery to full capacity”. As quick as. But, of course, that’s the optimal case, right? The case where annoying illness and normal life responsibilities…and let’s face it, laziness at times…don’t interfere with the program to work that leg back into shape! To be fair, several people at Tria corrected me when I said “6 months” by saying AT LEAST 6 months. Several of my friends have had ACL reconstruction and each of them said (when I mentioned the 6 month number) “count on a year”. Yet here I am…thinking to myself that I’ve somehow fallen behind because I’m at 75% after 6 months.
Or, maybe I’m just afraid that without a looming Physical therapy appointment every two weeks I’ll fall further behind? On the other hand, there’s a brand new ski season in the air…Time to work out!
Posted by Greg on November 1st, 2011 :: Filed under
ACL Files