Long story short: Anyone know of a media player that will play Apple Lossless files without hogging my system resources like iTunes?
I keep my files in Apple Lossless to preserve them at at least CD quality, since iTunes doesn’t read FLAC (and having an iPod is sometimes like being in an arranged marriage to iTunes). Last night, I tried to get Songbird to play my audio files, but I’m guessing it (like www.lala.com before it*) couldn’t read my Apple Lossless audio files. Once the experiment failed, I quit Songbird and went back to iTunes and found that it had no clue where all my music was. Somehow, every file was pointing to my windows/system32 directory. I’ve gotten all the songs back, so I just have to remove the dead links.
Anyway, that means that my playlists were deleted. I keep one called The Desert Island that is really a running list of my all-time favorite I'd-sooner-die-than-be-without-this! albums. On this site, I'm going to probably write about these albums whenever I feel it is appropriate. Or when I have nothing else to write about. There are 280 albums on the list (and it's a running tally), so theoretically I'm set over over half a year.
Anyway, as a preview of a couple of albums on that list, here are the Amazon preview pages for the album containing the song after which this blog was named:
Notorious BIG - Life After Death
and my post-election "This just feels so right for so many reasons" album-of-the-moment:
Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963
Maybe later I'll try to get some involvement with my last.fm page.
*Y’all should seriously try www.lala.com out. I’m rooting for their business model right now, though my rap songs appear to be the edited versions.
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