Daily Random Thoughts

[baxil]

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• 20:31 Kady gave me a new iPod Shuffle, which won't work until I upgrade iTunes. Only 57,914 songs for the new version's library to reprocess. O_O; #

Comments

[krinndnz]

I keep wondering what Apple's plan is for dealing with large libraries as they encourage people to acquire such. Mine's only ~30K items and iTunes still takes bloody forever on some tasks. My understanding is that the library is a single XML file, which strikes me as a little unwieldy when dealing with large libraries. It's in that annoying zone of software where you really want the unique/good features, but the drawbacks are persistent enough to make you curse the manufacturers.

[baphnedia]

What I'm trying to figure out, is why continue making music, now that these huge libraries are everywhere? Not that what I do isn't original, but even in my own library, I have a few albums that are favorites, and the rest I listen to on rare occasions.

[baxil]

If you're going to be daunted by the scale of the competition, please don't forget the scale of the audience. Even if you restrict yourself to the English-speaking, Internet-connected segment of the world population, you're still looking at 1 billion or more people who could potentially be exposed to your music. If only 1% of them ever hear of you, only 1% of those people download your album, and only 1% of THOSE people mark your album as a favorite, you've still touched the lives of 1,000 people