Owning your music. Again.
Kelly Sims wrote some thoughts on Ownership in the Rental Age:
And so I find myself once again thinking about ownership. I owned this music, as much as anyone can really own anything these days. I took time to curate the music and time to carefully rip the CD’s into a portable format. Now, as I look through the songs I had added to Apple match, a large portion of them are now DRM’d as Apple Music files. I can’t ever take them to listen on some other player, which means I do not own these anymore. I effectively sold them to Apple for free. And in exchange for this “sale” I get to listen to some of them some of the time, all when Apple and the music licensing gods decide.
I’m right there with you, Kelly. This was the same issue I’ve faced. And for much of the last decade, I had essentially given up on the whole damn thing.
Until earlier this year. I upgraded my computer, added a home NAS, and decided that I was going to reclaim my music library. A branch of the Phoenix Public Library is just a couple blocks away from my house. So a few seconds to set up a hold request on some music I used to own, select the local branch as the destination, and a day or two later, walk over and pick up the CD, and via a $25 external cd drive, rip it to my computer.
And thereby, own it once again.
I’m a few days late, but finally posted a recap of July 2024. Not sure if I’ll do these each month, but wanted to give it a go at least once.
#blaugust2024 #100DaystoOffload #blogging
📷 One of my favorite parts of visiting London last year was touring the Churchill War Rooms. Seems nearly comical that they were conducting the war by using push pins in a wall map. How times have changed. OTD 2023
📷 Look up. OTD in 2023
I finally got around to posting a personal introduction for Blaugust 2024.
Since I’m going to blog on multiple sites during the challenge, I’ll keep a list of them all on this page.
#Blaugust2024
Along the Glenn Highway, Alaska - OTD 2018
Arizona has some interesting place names, and the town of Show Low in the White Mountains has one of the best naming stories around. OTD in 2020.
The especially little part of the Little Colorado River. OTD in 2020
Choosing where to go when you can go anywhere: how we’ve been thinking about our upcoming 100 day trip. #blaugust2024
I visited an unexpected memorial OTD in 2008—that you’d expect in Washington DC, not along the Indiana/Illinois border.
OTD in 2019, we landed a bush plane in between 3 active wildfires in the remote Coal Creek area of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in eastern Alaska. I really need to blog about this whole episode—one of my fav adventure stories—but a smoky photo of the Yukon River will have to do for today.
Blaugust 2024
I’m participating in Blaugust 2024, though I’m not intending to post every day. But it’s always fun to have a bit of extra motivation to hit the publish button.
I’ll collect all the relevant posts here, as I’ll likely post on more than one site.
4/31
Bumpass Hell, a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park, might just have the very best place name in the national parks system. Here’s a short video from our last visit, OTD in 2022.
A few shots of Denali, “The Great One,” from our visit OTD six years ago. We were very fortunate to have clear views nearly the entire day.
I wrote about my favorite breweries and taprooms in Arizona, an easy way to share some suggestions for visiting friends. #100DaystoOffload
We visited the Tule Lake Segregation Center OTD in 2022, one of the WWII Japanese Internment Camps. A few weeks ago while camping near Flagstaff, we visited the remains of Camp Leupp on the Navajo Res, which was a temporary holding camp for Manzanar “riot” internees being transferred to Tule Lake.
A few views from the Kenai Peninsula, on this day in 2018.
In-flight entertainment.
(On This Day in 2018)
Home after three days of camping with a number of friends. We didn’t do too much but hang out at camp, save an afternoon jaunt into town for lunch and some local breweries.
