Now
Reading
Have started many fiction and non-fiction titles and finished none.
Projects
Re-Ripping my CDs
I am a collecting monster. Ripping to WAV on my Plex box and ripping to lossless for my Apple Music server. Oh! The meta data. Oh! The duplicated tracks. The WAV rips are super fast. The Lossless rips in Apple Music take several times longer, plus I’m caring for a library of digital files that began life in 1997.
Two things I’ve learned:
- Trust but verify the metadata you get from public sources.
- Album art is getting harder to find. I found a possible remedy via a membership at discogs.com.
- When replacing an album in Apple Music or Plex, sometimes it’s just simpler to delete the old tracks. Software libraries don’t always replace like with like correctly.
- Sometimes the minutiæ is overwhelming and I have to set it aside for a while.
Career
My current leader sees me and appreciates me.
I wish conference room technology was less vendor-specific (or perhaps more cloud agnostic) and that folks would stop blaming the meeting room when it doesn’t intuitively and automatically configure itself the way a person imagines it should work for them.
It is strange how technical support has meant I now also have to be worried about video streaming, audio amplification, lighting, framing, editing—every bit as much as the videographers and audio engineers and production teams have needed to become more adept with their use of computers and software.