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I have had Blumenkranz stuck in my head for about a week now.
YAY. By which I mean NOT YAY.
I like this song, but I don't like it THAT much.
~*~
We got one of those doohickeys that converts your tapes to mp3s. It's basically a walkman with a USB output.
Anyway, last night I promised mum that I'd check it works, because we didn't want to have paid all that money for nothing. I downloaded Audacity onto mum's computer, as that's the software that came with it, but I thought the internet would have the most recent version. I haven't checked the disc that came with the thing, but I bet I'm right.
ANYWAY. I plugged the tape player in. Windows recognised it, and so did Audacity. So far, so good. I put a tape in, and put it to play. Turned out it was at the end of a side, so I turned it over (you can actually reverse the direction of play, but that confuses me at the best of times). Pressed play. Pressed record on the computer. Nowt but silence and maybe the odd hissing noise. Switched it off, tried again, and again. Checked all my connections. Tried again. Still nothing.
Tried turning the volume control in the opposite direction. Pressed record on the computer again. Suddenly I heard music.
Turns out the volume was down, and that's why it wasn't recording anything.
What a flaming idiot I am, eh?
Stupidness aside, I am really excited about this. I've got a whole bunch of stuff on tapes that I don't have on CDs so I can expand my music collection! :DDDD Also I've got some embarrassing tapes from when I was a teenager, and I can make computer backups of them (the one thing on there I *might* upload if I can clean it up nicely, but I make no promises) - they're only embarrassing because I was a teenager and I said a WHOLE LOAD of stupid stuff (because I was a teenager), but I want to keep them because they are essentially an audio Let's Play of Resident Evil 2 (Leon A/Claire B, I think). Every time I listen to them (because memories!) I think the tapes might break (they're FIFTEEN years old. I'm amazed they've lasted THIS long).
(They also remind me that, while I ship Claire/Leon like burning (or, I used to), I'd also picked up on the point that the games wanted us to believe that Leon and Ada had instantly fallen for each other. I've since chosen to ignore that because I don't believe it, but that's just the way I roll. I also used to like Ada once. Not so much any more).
(ALSO DID I JUST UPLOAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF RE ICONS FOR THE ~SIX-ISH WEEKS I HAVE LEFT OF PAID TIME? YES, YES I DID).
~*~
In other news, I am knitting a cushion cover (I bought myself a coverless cushion especially!) for the first time. It has a star on it! It is the second time I have ever done intarsia, and honestly I don't know why I was so worried about it.
YAY. By which I mean NOT YAY.
I like this song, but I don't like it THAT much.
~*~
We got one of those doohickeys that converts your tapes to mp3s. It's basically a walkman with a USB output.
Anyway, last night I promised mum that I'd check it works, because we didn't want to have paid all that money for nothing. I downloaded Audacity onto mum's computer, as that's the software that came with it, but I thought the internet would have the most recent version. I haven't checked the disc that came with the thing, but I bet I'm right.
ANYWAY. I plugged the tape player in. Windows recognised it, and so did Audacity. So far, so good. I put a tape in, and put it to play. Turned out it was at the end of a side, so I turned it over (you can actually reverse the direction of play, but that confuses me at the best of times). Pressed play. Pressed record on the computer. Nowt but silence and maybe the odd hissing noise. Switched it off, tried again, and again. Checked all my connections. Tried again. Still nothing.
Tried turning the volume control in the opposite direction. Pressed record on the computer again. Suddenly I heard music.
Turns out the volume was down, and that's why it wasn't recording anything.
What a flaming idiot I am, eh?
Stupidness aside, I am really excited about this. I've got a whole bunch of stuff on tapes that I don't have on CDs so I can expand my music collection! :DDDD Also I've got some embarrassing tapes from when I was a teenager, and I can make computer backups of them (the one thing on there I *might* upload if I can clean it up nicely, but I make no promises) - they're only embarrassing because I was a teenager and I said a WHOLE LOAD of stupid stuff (because I was a teenager), but I want to keep them because they are essentially an audio Let's Play of Resident Evil 2 (Leon A/Claire B, I think). Every time I listen to them (because memories!) I think the tapes might break (they're FIFTEEN years old. I'm amazed they've lasted THIS long).
(They also remind me that, while I ship Claire/Leon like burning (or, I used to), I'd also picked up on the point that the games wanted us to believe that Leon and Ada had instantly fallen for each other. I've since chosen to ignore that because I don't believe it, but that's just the way I roll. I also used to like Ada once. Not so much any more).
(ALSO DID I JUST UPLOAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF RE ICONS FOR THE ~SIX-ISH WEEKS I HAVE LEFT OF PAID TIME? YES, YES I DID).
~*~
In other news, I am knitting a cushion cover (I bought myself a coverless cushion especially!) for the first time. It has a star on it! It is the second time I have ever done intarsia, and honestly I don't know why I was so worried about it.