James Piper, Author

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 ... a milestone reached ... I wonder where this will end. On the weekend I hit 20,050 songs in my iTunes library. 131 gigabyles of data. Almost 57 days of continuous music. If I were ever offered a last meal, I asked to listen to music as I ate. The thing is I still have stacks and stacks of CDs to rip and add to my library. I'm storing all these files on a 1 TB external hard drive. There's a second drive for back-up. There's enough space left for about 140,000 songs. If I ever fill up the hard drive, I'll be amazed. Posted 2010/04/13 at 11h11ET in Itunes.

Monday, March 22, 2010 ... a new plateau on Itunes ... I continue to add albums (of course, they're called CDs) to my iTunes library and I went past both the seventeen thousand song mark and 100 gigabytes. The numbers seem small and I have many more CDs to add. This can't be good, but I do like to listen to music and these days, it's rarely anything played over the radio. Posted 2010/03/22 at 21h47ET in Itunes.

Saturday, March 20, 2010 ... my iTunes genius mix ... I thought I'd share my Itunes Genius mix page. As I add CDs, I update my mix and sometimes get different album art and a different order. The more I play a certain mix, the higher up it is in the order. That much I have figured out. The other factor appears to be the number of songs you have for a category. By far I have more Jazz and Jazz Vocal songs than pop or rock and they are ranked at the top. And this is the list: Jazz Mix Vocal Mix Classic R&B Mix Smooth Jazz Mix Singer/Songwriter Mix Pop Mix Classic Rock Mix Classical Mix Soundtracks Mix Adult Alternative Pop Mix Soft Rock Mix Folk Mix Posted 2010/03/20 at 17h16ET in Itunes.