I bought an actual CD a couple weeks ago. I might have mentioned it. The other day I decided I was going to rip it to my surface. It’s pretty rare that I listen to music via itunes but I wanted to have it as an option. I haven’t used itunes much over the last 5 years or so and was surprised that a lot of the CD ripping options just don’t exist anymore. If you can rip a single song I couldn’t find the way to make it work. The program insisted on ripping the entire CD and fucked up several files. Those files then couldn’t be replaced. It was a ridiculous mess. The fact that I have to use an external drive to use CDs at all is already adding steps to the process I could do without. In the end I have 75% of a CD ripped to a program I already didn’t like very much with no way to fix it via the means available already in my Surface.
None of the programs that came with this thing know how to rip CDs. It’s just not an option anymore. Since I’m not very much of a music person I never noticed all these options being slowly removed over time. I find it vexing. At some point I’ll fire up my old tower computer and rip the CD with it, then transfer the files to my surface. The old computer has been maintained, but disconnected from the internet for a very long time, so it should still remember how to do basic CD related things.
I know that the world is trying to escape physical media, but it really seems like a bad deal long term… You can’t get a lot of new shows without paying for a live service now and that’s really uncool. It’s like the world is slowly working backwards into the 70s when it comes to content ownership. I’m not a fan.
Ages ago I intended to rip all my media into files I could transport via whatever method I chose, but never got around to it because it was such a hassle. The reads would fail, and it already took a long time, plus the software didn’t give you many options. It wasn’t ideal, but I figured a day would come when all that would be fixed by nerds. Except that day never came. All the nerds seem to have moved on to other things. The golden age of digital rights management never happened. What a pity.

Back when the PSP was new I was absolutely enthralled with being able to take entire DVD sets of stuff along with me, in my pocket. No internet required. I used to watch episodes of DR Katz over and over on it. I don’t even know where the fucking thing is right now. The best version of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night is on it. That I own anyway. As far as I know you can’t download it to your Switch yet. I absolutely would buy it a third time if I could and play it for I don’t even know what time.
Sidebar: I have the recent sets of GBA and maybe DS games on the switch. I bought one physically even. I didn’t play them because I was afraid I wouldn’t stop playing them and wouldn’t get my work done.
The battery for the PSP is bad and they don’t make them anymore. if you buy a “new” one it will be old stock, which is probably also bad, or a knockoff of such poor quality that it won’t last for even a year. Luckily it wasn’t designed in such a way that it won’t work without a battery even if it’s plugged in. That’s a horrible design flaw. If I knew where it was I could plug it in and play it. I used to keep it with my gameboy stuff but it’s not there now, nor are the games for it. At some point I must’ve moved it and have since forgotten the reason and the location.
I got a blueray player a while back so that my xbox… One? Wouldn’t be my primary media player anymore. The Blueray player has a USB port so you can play stuff from a thumb drive, or whatever. That seemed like where things were going to go at one point but never quite got there. It’s not very good at seeking points in a file, but it’s better than the xbox anyway. Ideally I would have a media drive with all my discs in it so I could just pick whatever without having to find the actual disc. It wasn’t really that big a deal when I had all my discs alphabetized and my life wasn’t some ridiculous disaster movie unfolding in slow motion all the time.
I dunno. Whatever. I’m tired and want to rest for a minute before going back to sorting things.
I hope you have a nice Monday.

Posts authored by Jackie

2786 Objects May Appear Closer.