waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Oh man, I’m pissed off.

December 6th, 2001

Oh man, I’m pissed off.

To avoid the hell-on-earth that is the MusicMatch Jukebox, I settled for
the lesser evil and decided to rip things with Windows Media Player. I just
wanted to start rebuilding my CD library at the office (where IT forces us
to use Windows 2000), so I was even willing to settle for doing everything
in WMA format. No problem, I thought.

Then — after listening to my first freshly-ripped CD — I
realized that WMP was ripping the tracks in the format:
<title>.wma. No track information. No way to sort the
tracks in CD order.
And no way to change the filename format in WMP.

Damn you, Microsoft!

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