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Music Organization Tips: Tags

Last week we went over how to identify tracks that were mis-tagged or not tagged at all using MusicBrainz’s Classic Tagger application. Now that we have most of the tracks tagged a little bit, we have a launch point for … Continue reading

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Joost Token Anyone?

I’m just wondering if any of my readers out there have a Joost token they would be willing to spare.  I am looking at getting a token so that I can review Joost for an episode of the Power of … Continue reading

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Music Organization Tips: What Are Those Songs

You have them don’t you? Sitting there on your computer. Music files that you have zero clue as to what
they actually are. You listen to the song and you know you know it, but you can not for the life of you
remember the title, artist, or album its from. These files are the scourge of your digital music collection. These files sit in a place forever ignored for one reason or another. No matter how often you sit down to
organize and try to figure out their titles, you only leave your computer discouraged and probably a little upset. Well, today we put an end to that. In the first article my Music Organization Tips series, we are going to work on trying to figure out what those songs on so that we can have all of our tracks identified. With all of our tracks identified we can effectively organize these files and folders of music. Continue reading

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Music Organization Tips

Organizing your
digital music
collection is pretty
time consuming. You
probably have a large
collection of mp3 files
that you have
accumulated over the
years, either by
ripping your own
CDs or getting your
files from other
sources. You
probably have a huge
number of files that
are mis-tagged,
wrongly named, or
you just do not know
what they are. So
over the next few
weeks we are going
to look at ways to get
your digital music
collection in order. Continue reading

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Watermark Instead of DRM

I had a thought while driving into work this morning.  I’m sure others have thought about it, but why don’t the recording and movie industries look at digitally watermarking digital download purchases. Think about it.  Digitally encrypt either at the … Continue reading

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AVG Still Free

A few weeks ago, I wrote that I had moved back to using ClamWin as my antivirus of choice because AVG was no longer offering a free version of their antivirus software. A couple people have written in to correct … Continue reading

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