It all started innocently enough. I had finally managed to download a version of Windows Media Player that could rip tracks from my favorite CDs to my computer. I was in hog heaven. My once empty music folder was rapidly filling with my favorite songs. Then I noticed it! The files were all WMAs instead of MP3s. That's what I get for not checking the settings before I started ripping. It seems that WMA is the default format for ripping tracks. I changed the settings, but I now have two or three albums that have to be reripped to MP3. After all, I can't play WMA files on that MP3 player that I'm planning to buy tomorrow night! As if I don't already have enough to do...
Since most of my vast Scorpions collection was already ripped, I decided to start doing some tracks by some of my other favorite artists, like Neil Young.
Mmmmm... Neil can be quite sexy...
But I digress... I popeed Disc One of Decade into the computer and ripped my favorite tracks without any problems. I moved on to Disc Two. Without consulting the track listing on the CD case, I selected my favorite tracks from the list that Media Player gave me. When I played them back, I discovered that not a single one of them was the correct song! Whoever provided the track listing to Microsoft must have been smoking LOTS of funny little weeds. I procede redo all of the tracks, using the listing on the CD rather than the information provided by Media Player. At last I had the correct songs, but all of the files had to be renamed. The program had named the files from its own incorrect listing.
If anyone is interested, this is the correct track listing for
Neil Young's Decade (Disc Two)
1. Ohio
2. Soldier
3. Old Man
4. A Man Needs A Maid
5. Harvest
6. Heart Of Gold
7. Star Of Bethlehem
8. The Needle And The Damage Done
9. Tonight's The Night (Part 1)
10. Tired Eyes
11. Walk On
12. For The Turnstiles
13. Winterlong
14. Deep Forbidden Lake
15. Like A Hurricane
16. Love Is A rose
17. Cortez The Killer
18. Campaigner
19. Long May You Run
And don't let Media Player tell you anything else!!!!
The final bit of random strangeness occurred as I looked at the picture on the back of the CD case. (Which I cannot reproduce, since my scanner is dead!)
Now, I don't want to upset Neil while he's recovering from his recent health problems, but I think that I just may have given birth to his child by osmosis back in 1986....
This photo shows a young Neil...
(Ewww! Bad pun!)
And this is a photo of my oldest son, Raymond...
The resemblence is kinda creepy.
I feel cheated. If I was going to give birth to Neil's love child, I at least wanted to have sex with him!
Not to worry, Neil. I won't demand back child support for your osmosis baby, I just want some sex... When you're feeling up to it... Erm, I mean, when you're feeling better.
Damn! I'm full of terrible puns tonight!
