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Feb 11, 2006 - music, personal    4 Comments

Comfortably numb in traffic

One of my all time favourite music groups has to be Pink Floyd. They are such a huge phenomenon and I don’t really need to write anything about their fan following or their awesome music.

Pink Floyd is what I listen to most of the time while driving to office and back, on the mp3 player in my car.

Earlier this week I wanted to see how long it takes for me to drive to office and back – and what better way to count than the number of Floyd songs I could listen to!

The drive from home to work, had me listening to the following songs -

Comfortably Numb” (6:23)
Coming Back to Life” (6:56)
High Hopes” – (7:51) – I reached my office when only half the song was up, so I waited in my car at the parking lot till this song got over. I couldn’t get myself to press the ‘off’ button before that!

While returning traffic was slightly heavy so I took longer (~25 minutes) than the roughly 17 minutes morning drive, but I generally enjoy driving to music, so I was comfortably numb in traffic indeed!

Keep Talking” (6:53)
Wish You Were Here” (6:35)
Learning to Fly” (4:53)
“Cluster One” (5:58)

I sometimes actually wish that I stayed further away from the office, so that I can listen to more music while driving! But then again…it’s such a relief to get back home so quickly.

On a sad note, David Gilmour has recently said that Pink Floyd will not be performing together anymore. The Live 8 concert with Roger Waters is to be their last performance together. Read more here and here

The only Pink Floyd concert I got to attend (and now ever will) was the Roger Waters – In The Flesh Tour way back on 13th April 2002 in Bangalore and that was simply the best concert I have attended so far. People poured into Bangalore from all corners of the country to attend the show and I also remember a certain cousin and a huge Floyd fan himself come down just for the show from Warangal! A truely great experience!

Jan 25, 2006 - music, personal    No Comments

MediaMonkey

Chandru told me about this very useful tool called MediaMonkey, that helps catalogue our music and edit the tags, move music from same artist to one folder, look up the net for missing album info, etc.

MediaMonkey

It is a great tool and I’ve been spending quite a lot of time on it, getting my music in order. In the process I’ve rediscovered so many forgotten songs and found many songs, which I never knew I had because they had the wrong tags or had obscure filenames or were in some folder named New or Miscellaneous or such like.

Anyway, now thanks to MediaMonkey, I am well on my way to organising my music collection properly and the time and effort is worth it, especially if you are a major music buff and also if you’re using an MP3 player.

Warning – It is very addictive and you will end up spending hours on it updating tags and trying to get your music collection in order! :D

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