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I also used gtkpod to clean up the ID3 tags on many of my MP3s today. It looks like it edits them on my Gentoo Linux desktop machine and on the iPod immediately and quietly. Nice! I was very happy with how this went. And it’s great to have my ID3 tags more consistent.
It makes the iPod much more pleasant to use.
I also ripped about ten more CDs and synchronized them on the iPod.
Previous iPod song count (as of yesterday): 809
Current iPod song count: 957
No work today. Too windy. The Labor Day holiday didn’t factor into it.
Today I tackled the email portion of my Win2000->Gentoo Linux data transition.
I’ve been working happily with Gentoo on this computer since November 2003. But I had yet to move all my data (including old email) from my old machine.
I moved the raw data over yesterday (Sunday). Today I imported one mbox file at a time into Ximian Evolution while I watched Sean Connery battle an asteroid aimed at Earth in Meteor.
To get the data into mbox format for import into Evolution, I first installed Thunderbird on the laptop and used it to convert the email from Outlook Express’ proprietary format into a useful, standard format: mbox.
It’s all in Evolution now (probably 20K+ new but old messages).
Sitting inside all day avoid deadly wind, rain and flying car parts, I set about moving all my user data (including a voluminous email message store) from my old primary computer (a Win2000 Sony laptop) to my main computer, a four-year-old desktop from Polywell Computers running Gentoo Linux and FVWM.
It went very well. I found that I had better luckunzipping my zip files with the opener supplied by Nautilus than with Konqueror’s Zip file abstraction. Konqueror complained that many files were expected to be folders (they were folders!) and the result was that it made (worthless!) empty files out of them, their contents lost. =( So I redid my unzipping work with Nautilus. Worked like a champ.
My user data included tons of digital photos taken with my old digitcal cameras. It had been a while since I’d seen those pictures. It was nice to move them over.
It was a productive day.