Half the Chandos box is done now – and in only about 2 1/2 hours too! Yep, 15 CDs! I ended up running them on both the laptop and the new Mac Mini so as to get through them faster and even though I had to type in the track listings on about half of those, and edit all the others to get them correct (librarian-brain at work – composers do NOT go in the artist field!), it all just shot through. The Mac Mini’s 4Gb of RAM makes a huge difference.

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… on a bunch of sound file formats. Interesting results… not least of which is that my ear obviously isn’t as finely tuned as I’d like to imagine Really quite hard to spot differences between AIFF, Apple Lossless, 320kbps MP3 and AAC, so we’re sticking with MP3 because of the 500-odd albums we’ve already got in that format! The good news is that I discovered that the nasty blurriness I noticed the other day was due to iTunes having automatically switched on its equaliser. Grrrr. Switching it off has made an astronomical difference to the sound quality – huzzah!

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Didn’t get through as much as I’d have liked – I’ve been going at it pretty solidly with tech work and composing for about 5 days now, got halfway through today and just felt totally burned out. So I stopped, but I managed to finish the section I was working on first, and bounced down a new video version so I can get a good overview when I come back to it tomorrow. Nice to be able to focus on the composing and not so much on getting the tools to function!

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