All Forces

Keeping my iTunes music library properly tagged and with it’s corresponding album covers is not only necessary to me, it is borderline obsession. Of course, if I was to buy all my music from iTunes then I wouldn’t have this problem, since it all comes prepackaged with the track’s info and album cover. But I do have a huge collection of CDs, I’m not fond of DRM restrictions and there’s the occasional internet mp3 downloads that come bare bones. When ripping a CD, iTunes automatically gets all the album track info if connected online, but there are those rare occasions when I am ripping but am not connected online. For this, I have my iTunes tagging workflow that automatically gets my tags and images with the help of quicksilver, dashboard and applescript.

Step 1: Download and install the requirements:

Amazon Album Art Widget ( download ) - Widget by Widget Foundry
CDDB Safari Kit ( download ) - Applescript by Doug Adams
QuickSilver ( download ) - by Black Tree
Gracenote Quicksilver URL ( bookmark ) - just add to your bookmarks
Safari - comes with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ( buy )

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Today is my 34th birthday.

UPDATE: For the curious, my Amazon wish list.

It’s official. We signed papers to put our house on the market today.

This week I finally got around to developing my portfolio site at melvinrivera.org. As you may notice from the introduction message, we’re moving to New York in the coming months. This is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while. And after a 10 day trip for me, and a 5 week trip for my wife and kid, we decided we just love that city too much to not live in it. For us this means selling our house, finding a tinny apartment in NY and getting a job to go with it. Hence my portfolio online. If you are in NY or have possible job contacts there, give me a shout out. I’m looking for a new place to call home.

Link: melvinrivera.org