What a day! I hit one of our monster potholes this morning and blew out my tire. Because it was raining, and because I didn't want to do it myself and because I got roadside assistance on our insurance plan long ago to help my wife out if it ever happened to her while driving around with little kids and I wasn't available, I called them rather than worry about it myself. By the time I had them show up, put on the donut, go to the tire shop, find out that there's a huge line because the same problem is happening to everyone, fend off their attempts to sell me more tires and shocks and struts that I don't need (seriously; they just wanted me to spend $1,000 because of mileage without even looking at them. I changed the shocks and struts about 18,000 miles ago.) my morning was gone. I'm not quite sure what else I would have done with regards to this blog if I hadn't been stuck in a tire shop, but it's a convenient excuse for why I'm probably not going to end up doing anything after all. I'll probably even defer my Friday Art Attack to Monday.
I did, however, end up deleting my hard trance megamix while I was there. I discovered a feature in Audacity, and got taught how to use it, which does a pretty good job of removing tape and vinyl hiss on audio files, and two of the songs on my mix had pretty bad hiss (as well as pops and whatnot from the needle on vinyl playback.) Now, my clean-up job isn't perfect, but I did about three or four songs while I was waiting, and they are quite a bit better than they were. I decided to go back to the drawing board with the megamix that I have rather than try to recreate it. I've added a lot of songs to my list of potentials since I did it, and what the heck; I either want to manually pick songs, or re-sort them, or something rather than just redo it. So... that's out, for now, and I'm not really sad about it. Although I was quite happy with the quality of the mixing, I wasn't necessarily thrilled with the audio quality of all of the source files I used. And I still haven't actually played around with Mixxx yet either; I did all of this in Audacity.
I also think I want to create a big monster playlist of the potential tracks under consideration and listen to it a lot before I get carried away and start picking stuff while I can barely remember what some of the tracks sound like except that I liked them enough when I heard them in someone else's megamix that I went and got them and listened to them once or twice before throwing them on my phone and on a spreadsheet, and then kind of having them fall through the cracks.
So my haste to make megamixes, which granted, is pretty fun in its own right, made me act too rashly. Let's slow it down and make the best megamixes I can. What I do need to stop doing, though, is continuing to chase after tracks I don't have. At some point, I need to decide that I've got a lot, and I've got enough. That doesn't mean that I'm done and won't ever get any new ones, but hopefully it means that I'm not gluttonously consuming new ones faster than I can even process them.
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