Cleaning the Library

There isn't much that I love more than music.With the exception of Reina and Erina of course!. For the past few months I have been having trouble with the digital media. You see for about three or four years now I've been getting quite a bit of it, but never organizing it. I was sick of have ten different variations of one genre! [ex. J-pop Jpop J_pop J POP] It wasn't just genre either variations of artist names and even song titles were complicating things. I finally decided to do some cleaning. I started by wiping everything out and started from scratch. Everything was going smoothly until I ran into a little bug. Some of my tracks are named in Japanese characters, but when I dropped it into WMP11 it turned into ???? or strange Kana. So I spent a lot of time renaming tracks and artist names individually! After about nine hours! I noticed something else was happening. After I renamed a song and the played it the song reverted back to ??? or Kana. It wasn't until two hours later I found it that an option in the WMP11 library setting was turned off, its usually on by default. That was my culprit I finished everything the next day, because at the time it was 3AM (I started the work at 3:45PM!) So about twelve hours of hell, it was definatley all worth it. Everything is easy to find and organize, plus every album has its art (before most of my albums had no art)



I also got to take a look at what WMP11 thinks my favorite singles and albums are, now that I finally gave songs ratings as I uploaded them!

Top 5 Singles (according to WMP):

1. LOVE&TRUTH - YUI
2. Sekai Wa Summer Party - Mano Erina
3. CAROLS - Hamasaki Ayumi
4. Namidairo - YUI
5. Daikishimete - Berryz Koubou

Hmm, that doesn't seem too far off, but I don't think CAROLS or Daikishimete should be in the top five, I still like the singles, but I have others that I have a bigger heart for! Lets take a look at the Albums.

Top 5 Albums (according to WMP):

1. Soffio di vento～Best of IZUMI SAKAI Sellection～ - ZARD
2. I LOVED YESTERDAY - YUI
3. First Time - Morning Musume
4. Best! Morning Musume 1 - Morning Musume
5. Platnium 9 Disc - Morning Musume

That makes more sense! I love Jpop in the 90's especially 95-98. Zard, Glay, The beginning of Morning Musume! Judy and Mary? See-Saw! There was a lot of greatness in that time! I'll have to talk about 90s Jpop another time I have to get sleep for work tomorrow!