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The other day I was watching House M.D Season 5 on the tube and I found the team ring tone really interesting.

There’s this story that ring tones for the iPhone are not “free” but you can actually do whatever you want if you have GarageBand or even simply iTunes. Some websites provide really useful info (here, here and here).

All right, I got it. It’s far from being perfect, especially at the end (loop time). If you are in the US, you can get the right ring tone here though.

Well, I must say that when I bought my Mac I just feel a bit disturbed about the software to use to listen my favorite songs. When I was running Windows, I just found it plain closed and the library was just a mess. For instance, I never found a way to activate some flag that would warn me I was about to add a song that I already have in my library. Also, I wanted to keep the directory structure since I frequently access it directly from the file system.

Now I am running MacOS, I don’t have those interrogations anymore and the software is pretty much cool to use. The thing I really like since v7 is the Cover Flow View which allows you to browse your albums with a nice 3D view of the covers. However, this functionality was very annoying with soundtracks since the album contains many many artists and you end up with the same cover showing X times when you browse your albums. Oh of course, you can just update the artist by hand to something like ‘Various Artists’ to fix the problem but then you loose the original artist.

Very annoying …. until I found the magic flag! Editing X entries allows you to trigger the magical compilation flag. If you activate it, iTunes orders the album in the Various Artists section without removing the original artists in the metadata; very handy!

The english translation of Tarja’s press conference is available here.

As we said in my region and probably somethere else in the world, I’m “une guerre en retard” which means that I am talking about something which happened quite a while ago.

Well, sorry, I am not (that) a nerdzz. My sweet girlfriend just told me that Nightwish has fired her singer, Tarja in a letter the band gave her after their last show. By the way, one of the links above might be down soon

Tarja which was at the time of writing in Argentina, replied in a letter available in the forums.

I don’t want to tell much about the letters, except that the first one seems much more motivated. It seems that Nightwish will go without Tarja, I wonder if that will actually give any result.

Wait & See…