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Oh damn, my clicky fingers!
Jun. 7th, 2009 10:55 amDue to partitioning issues on our main drives, we are running out of space on our music partition. At one point last weekend I think we had 24kb free in the partition. But we're not actually short of drive space -- we have 2 internal drives and 2 external drives kicking around.
One of these external drives, an 80GB LaCie, is chock full of crap. First, it has a backup of my iTunes from work (and we already have most of that stuff here at home). Second, it has a backup of my brother's iTunes, which is mostly useless because 1) it's full of singles instead of whole albums, 2) there are many, many duplicates and 3) it's almost all music I am not into. I mean, there's some legacy stuff in there (All, the Slits, TSOL, DRI, Dr. Dooom, Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, etc) that make me smile. But most of it is modern pop-punk and 3rd wave ska -- leftovers from when my brother was a professional radio DJ -- which is not my cup of tea (nor Doug's). So I've just spent the last 2 hours filtering through the 65GB of music, deleting everything that displeases me. And by-gods, my right-clicky finger is displeased with me.
An aside: I am glad I never went the professional radio route the way my brother and some of my friends did. My friends who stayed in the Bay Area had playlists they had to stick to, which is odious. My brother was the only DJ at his station who had free reign with his playlist (because he was the demographic they were targeting and they trusted his instincts). I might have had a lower listenership (30,000 or so at my university gig, 1,000 during high school, rather than a couple million), but I also had the freedom to play Neurosis followed by the Plasmatics, followed by the Pharcyde. Funny, also, that I ended up with a former DJ for a spouse in the bargain. Ha. Who else on my flist (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jonsiron , yes?) is a current or former radio DJ? How many exams did you bomb because you had the dreaded 2-6am shift? (and did you ever get from your classmates "hey, loved your show last night! I was listening to it while I studied!" And did it make you want to punch them?)
One of these external drives, an 80GB LaCie, is chock full of crap. First, it has a backup of my iTunes from work (and we already have most of that stuff here at home). Second, it has a backup of my brother's iTunes, which is mostly useless because 1) it's full of singles instead of whole albums, 2) there are many, many duplicates and 3) it's almost all music I am not into. I mean, there's some legacy stuff in there (All, the Slits, TSOL, DRI, Dr. Dooom, Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, etc) that make me smile. But most of it is modern pop-punk and 3rd wave ska -- leftovers from when my brother was a professional radio DJ -- which is not my cup of tea (nor Doug's). So I've just spent the last 2 hours filtering through the 65GB of music, deleting everything that displeases me. And by-gods, my right-clicky finger is displeased with me.
An aside: I am glad I never went the professional radio route the way my brother and some of my friends did. My friends who stayed in the Bay Area had playlists they had to stick to, which is odious. My brother was the only DJ at his station who had free rei
jonsiron , yes?) is a current or former radio DJ? How many exams did you bomb because you had the dreaded 2-6am shift? (and did you ever get from your classmates "hey, loved your show last night! I was listening to it while I studied!" And did it make you want to punch them?)