Michael S. Pascua The Life of a Freelancer

iStrain

I have finally gotten around to rate most of my music on my iTunes. It was done before, but when I transferred all my music to my other external hard drive (which I hear is a no-no) only 3/4ths of the album covers and none of the ratings transferred over. I spent the past six months rating all the music. Now there are only 3 subjects to rate: Patsy Cline, Fleetwood Mac, and the new Franz Ferdinand album. The first two are obvious, the latter is because I haven’t had a chance to sit down and listen to it.

Getting to the point of the post: I could never stay on iTunes too long because after a while my eyes would start to kill me. Small black text on white background? For shame. Funny, because I am typing this on Word and have no problem, but when the text is like six point font it just hurts. That and the fact that I have more than 7000 songs (my iPod claims 8,221, but my iTunes says that there are about 7,700. I’m not sure what the disconnect is). I would have to rate about 100 songs a day and then die a little on the inside for the sake of organization.

I don’t understand why Apple has to be so stingy with their color choices. I’m sure there are people out there that can’t see or read iTunes and prefer something like Winamp with the option of skins. I just want a dark version of iTunes that comes with it. I don’t want to download some third party skin mask thing. Why isn’t there a tab for changing the colors or something?

Now that the ratings are done, it’s time to add album covers, album titles, track numbers, and year of release. I’m taking my time on those.