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So, I was dumb, and in trying to make iTunes 7 get more artwork for albums (If I see Come on Feel the Illinoise! in the iTunes store, why can’t you download the artwork?) and I managed to cluster fuck a bunch of the ID3 tags in my library. I restored to yesterday’s library, but sadly there were about three gigs of songs that did not come back. I’d imported them since the last backup, so the overwritten tags couldn’t be restored. That’s been fun… Overall, while I like the album art, and the view is nice eye candy, I can’t help but feel that iTunes 7 isn’t as nice as 6. It just feels… ugly.

Boing Boing has this bit about a new source of free classical music. I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but hopefully they’re good performances. If classical music had a lot of free recordings out there, I have this feeling that it might help more people get into it. Call me crazy, but there is really good stuff out there, and while not everyone these days is going to go for classical, some people will be drawn to it. Making it free lowers the bar of entry for exploratory listeners. That’s always a good thing, because the real money, and about this I assume classical music is like popular music, is in people coming to concerts, not the recordings. Of course people still have to find it…