Launching songs on my television via Apple TV is just as drab until Cupertino’s default screen-saving melange of lions, rhinos and baby seals pops up to background whatever I’m listening to. Opening Apple’s “Cover Flow” displays a library of identical black boxes, each containing a pair of eighth notes joined by crossbar. A year ago I opted to convert those songs over from the free lossless audio codec format, or FLAC, to Apple’s lossless alternative, mostly so I could play them in iTunes as well as through other i-devices without fitful hack-arounds, or having to maintain a duplicate library in an agnostic, lossy format like MP3.Īfter the conversion, I realized my collection looked sort of dead, devoid as it’s been of album art - just a mammoth scrolling list of track names and album titles. Starting from zero, it takes iTunes about 20 minutes to add everything to my library, running off a 7200 RPM external hard drive. Follow that time again: When the evil, obsessive-compulsive, mirror-verse me starts picking at piles of disorganized digital information, speaking in sepulchral tones: “Time to get to work, Matt.” This time it’s my iTunes library - not gargantuan at nearly 25,000 songs, but far from modest.
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