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Total Loss, Almost
November 24, 2006
When my brand new Dell harddisk broke down, I had already transferred all my iTune music from my old harddisk. I used cut and paste and there was not a spare copy left in the old harddisk. If I didn’t manage to access the faulty harddisk before Dell took it back, it would mean a total loss of 5701 songs, 18.7 days of continuous music and 27.24GB of sound bytes. And even at 99 cents a song which was substantially less than what I paid for my CDs, it could easily translate into a total loss of well over US$5,000. I am not sure if I could seek compensation from Dell.
There are many Linux LiveCD available on the net and they are a real life saver when you cannot boot to your harddisk and need an OS to access your files. If you need a graphic desktop, Ubuntu is a good choice. But if you are not entirely uncomfortable using a command line console, SysRescuse is a a must-have - the download is small and yet it is extremely powerful.
Among my 5,000+ songs, it is not easy to pick my favourites. Music is a funny thing, my favourites songs tend to be dictated by a myriad of factors - my age, my financial situation and how satisfied I am in my sex life all play an important part in determining my favourite music. They change. There are artists I used to listen to a lot but seldom pick up their CDs or bother to click on it in my iTune or Banshee (Helix) player.
However, there are specail songs or album I will always remember.
The first album I bought was Mud, Slide, Slim in 1972. My music collection started from this.
“One Man Dog” was a gift from my best friend Ronald whom I have not seen for over 20 years now.
“Blood on the Track” and “Automatic for the People” are two special CDs I can think of which at one time in my life I had been playing it everyday for well over a month.
Tchaikovsky’s Symphongy no 6 “Pathetique” is the only classical piece which I tried so hard to make a complete collection from various conductors from Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, Giulini, Valery Gergiev, Yevgeny Mravinsky, James Levine, Andre Previn to Bernstein.
And I did do some karaoke back in the good ol’ days. One song I inevitably pick was 容易受傷的女人.
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REM has always been inspiring and both “Drive” and “Try not to breathe” are exceptional. Of course “Tangled up in Blues” and “Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” are my favorites from “Blood on the Tracks”
What really got me started was “Katy Lied” from the early Steely Dan disks. Mostly is has been Midnight Oil and three specific alblums that I knew I would listen to forever: Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining, and Earth Sun and Moon. It has taken a number of weekends of rip songs to get my favorites on the I-Pod, using a separate hard drive for my back-ups. I learned the hard way when my Gateway crashed a couple years back. After that, I build my own computers to avoid the closed architecture that makes recovery more difficult. Good luck with the new computer.
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