One of the upsides of too much travel is frequent flier points. They’re normally fairly useless given that they put you on the red-eye and / or make you book so far in advance that you can’t even be sure what’s going to be happening, but not all programs suck. International travel’s always pretty OK (even if you do have to leave at 3 am), and Virgin’s Velocity Rewards program actually has a real shop where you can trade in your points for free stuff (unlike Qantas, which has a shop but basically gives you a 10% discount in exchange for your points). As in, stuff like this:
Unfortunately, most of my music isn’t tagged. I didn’t bother when I ripped it - I simply used a directory structure to keep track of everything. Rather than have everything neatly organised by metadata, I have a file system that like this: Artist / Year - Album / TrackNumber - TrackTitle. It makes it very easy to find stuff through the file system, but it’s totally useless for stuff like iTunes, as I never entered the metadata. And, going back through and updating everything isn’t much fun. On the bright side, I’ve found the best program ever for this kind of stuff - MP3 Tag Studio. I actually found it a few years ago, but it’s still the best out there - it not only allows you to directly edit the tags, it’ll also let you recursively enter tag information by using rule-based file name interpretations. So, you define what the filename should look like, and it’ll pull the appropriate bits out of the filename and populate the relevant metadata. Nice.
Still, it’s a nice piece of hardware - I’m quite impressed. I still like my Creative Zen Vision W and use it most days at work as my jukebox, but they each fill a very neat little niche.