Music Brainz Picard

So my MP3 library's been a mess for a long time. I have a large folder full of MP3's called "Bad Tags". They're the tracks I don't listen to very often and have tags that are messed up. In most cases I'm too lazy to get the CD out of the attic and re-rip it and it would take forever to re-type them. My most common tag issue is truncated fields or the infamous "Track 01" song name from back in the days of using Real Jukebox. Man, those were the days. Then Sound Jam on the Mac. Nostalgia! Anyway, lots of bad albums.

Enter Music Brainz Picard. It makes cleaning them up a breeze! If you have MP3 tags that are wrong and want an easy tool to clean them up in, Music Brainz is the best free tool I've ever used. I've used some of the 'fee' based ones. They're good and all, but I don't like to pay for a tool I'm going to use once and never again. It's back-ended by the MusicBrainz meta data database and it quite extensive.

Heroes... love the show

So I watch a lot of shows online (hulu, iTunes, etc). I'm totally hooked on heroes since season 1. Season 2 was iffy because of the writers strike, but still pretty good. I love how the end an arc every season. But little things bug me from time to time. Here's an example: in Episode 4 of Season 3 "I Am Become Death". Future Peter and Present Peter are walking down the street and Peter Says they can't stay because they're looking for him. They know how to become invisible and can stop time. Seriously. Stop time or go invisible. They can fly. Why run? Fly away. They have telekinesis and other 'fire' type abilities. They can phase like Niko's dad (forget the name). The list goes on. Peter is just too dumb in one second, then clever about others. It bugs me.

Anyway, just my rant.

Cheers,

Rich

Jim Pugh/Pastel Motif

Jim Pugh (Robert Cray Band Keyboard maestro) has come out with a solo project.

http://pastelmotif.com/

As Jim himself put it:

Hi everybody!

For all those who enjoy deep spul groove Hammond B3 instrumental music check out

JimPugh/pastelMotif at PastelMotif.com.

There's info on PastelMotif and you can also check out some of the tunes.

Cheers.

There's a lot of great info about Jim on the site as well. Check out the Bio Page in particular. He has a few samples from the project up on the website.